Articles from the February 24, 2022 edition


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  • Finding birth family starts new chapter

    Pamela Lannom|Updated Feb 23, 2022

    I've known I was adopted for as long as I can remember. My birth mother loved me so much, my mom would tell me often, that she gave me up to make sure I would have a good home. And she and my dad had picked me to be their daughter. It was a story of love all the way around. As I grew up, my understanding of being adopted deepened. I didn't want to find my birth mother, but I did think about her. I thought about her more after my own daughter was born. And yet I did nothing. I...

  • Practice makes perfect at Jodie Harrison camps

    Updated Feb 23, 2022

    Noah Trainor works his way toward the basket during a recent training session at The Community House. Former collegiate and professional players led the campers in improving skills from dribbling to shooting to ball handling. Children from first through eighth grade were able to participate. (Jim Slonoff photos)...

  • Dist. 86 board votes to make masks optional

    Updated Feb 23, 2022

    For the first time this school year, Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South students were not required to wear masks this week. The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Friday voted unanimously to make masking optional for students, staff and visitors. Close contact exclusions and testing exclusions also were shifted from required to strongly recommended, but not enforced. The vote came after the board met in closed session. In a subsequent statement, board President Terri Walker and Superintendent Tammy Prentiss said the...