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CHMS HONOR ROLL released Clarendon Hills Middle School has announced the names of students who earned a place on the honor roll for the first semester of the 2021-22 school year. Sixth grade Honor roll Cameron Andrejevic, Kaden Aucoin, Angel Bazan, Ethan Brubaker, Everleigh Carter, James Clapacs, Thomas Clark, Hanna Darin, Gavin Dejuras, Nicholas Hadden, Taylor Haggerty, Jack Hamman, Stella Heintskill, Lucy Hoyt, Hunter Kauffman, Joseph Kearney, Jessie Keiner Cameron Livingston, Reese Marcet, Liam McFarland, Finnegan...
Spring training - Members of Hinsdale Central's varsity baseball team spent part of their Monday afternoon practice getting their field back into shape. The Red Devil season opens March 22 against Metea Valley. Last year the team made it to the sectional finals, eventually coming up short against Brother Rice. (Jim Slonoff)...
The C/Overt Observations exhibit at Virgil Catherine Gallery in Hinsdale includes works by celebrity photographer Udo Spreitzenbarth and painter Guy Stanley Philoche. Oh, and Hinsdale Central graduate Jared Callaway. Five of 21-year-old Callaway's photographs are part of the exhibit organized by gallery owner Catherine Ponakala. She first learned of Callaway when his mom, Hinsdale's Kathryn Occhipinti, stopped in and mentioned her son was a photographer with a number of...
What do athletic trainers do? The state runner-up trophy was on the line for Hinsdale Central's boys swim and dive program late last month. But injuries threatened to undermine a key relay team's performance. Athletic trainers Sam Bell and Alex Kennedy came through, and so did the relay, helping the Red Devils bring home the hardware. "One kid came over to me and was like, 'Thank you so much!' and just gives me the biggest hug, because he wouldn't have been able to swim the ra...
CENTRAL WRITERS RECEIVE AWARDS Sixteen Hinsdale Central students were recently recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in conjunction with its Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Entries submitted for the competition from students at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South earned a total of 63 awards, which included 12 Gold Keys, 22 Silver Keys and 29 Honorable mentions. Central winners are • Jacqueline Bousquette, honorable mention, painting • Elia Crisan, honorable mention, drawing and illustration • Amy Dong,...
David F. Shutack, 69, a longtime Hinsdale resident, passed away unexpectedly, March 7, 2022. He was born in 1952 in Oak Park. Dave was a free spirit and had fond memories of backpacking through Glacier National Park and exploring the Bahamas. He peppered conversations with jokes that ranged from the simple and silly to the irreverent and complex. A contemplative man who earned a master's in philosophy from the University of Chicago, he crafted clever messages for commercials...
Virginia A. "Ginny" Rea, nee Battershell, 76, of Darien died March 11, 2022. Ginny was a proud alum of Longwood Academy, where she solidified lifelong friendships. Ginny loved to dance, travel and spend time with her friends and family. She will be missed dearly. She is survived by her husband of 55 years, Robert J. Rea; her children, Kerry (Michael) Turgeon of Hinsdale and Kelly (Pete) Yensel; her grandchildren, Ryan, Katie and Meghan Turgeon and Jack, Will and Joseph...
Thomas McCleary, a 19-year Hinsdale resident, passed away March 12, 2022, after fighting a courageous battle against cancer. Tom, 63, was born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit. He lived in New York City and Chicago before settling in Hinsdale. He received an engineering degree from University of Michigan and an MBA from the Wharton School Business. He spent 30 years in the financial markets and upon retiring, joined his wife, Megan, in residential real estate. Tom was marr...
Barbara L. Dorn, 94, of Clarendon Hills passed away peacefully Dec. 23, 2021. Born and raised on the South Side, Barbara loved White Sox baseball and Chicago. She was an active churchgoer, avid reader and life-long learner who enjoyed travel, opera and a nightly Manhattan. She generously gave her time, volunteering with the local library, the Girl Scouts and the PTA, and helped the Infant Welfare Society launch the Christmas luminaria program. She was predeceased by her...
Superintendent Prentiss has now been revealed (FOIA 1099) to have met on Zoom with a group of local clergy leaders. In an email between Prentiss and a local pastor on Jan 27, the pastor discusses the need for “people with political skill sets” to be brought into their conversations. On Jan. 28, just one day after community members begin publicly calling for Prentiss’ resignation, Prentiss indicates her preference for meeting with a group of clergy because “I think we are at ICU level.” On Feb. 8, that meeting with local cle...
As Hinsdale Central students and just1mike Junior Board members, we wanted to inform families about the Young Hearts for Life free in-school EKG heart screenings being held at Hinsdale Central on March 24 and Hinsdale South on April 7. Just1mike is co-sponsoring the free EKG screenings facilitated by YH4L. Just1mike was founded after Michael Brindley, a sophomore at Hinsdale Central, died tragically in 2016 from sudden cardiac arrest. Michael’s family is dedicated to ensuring no other family suffers the tragic loss of a c...
Incredibly, we will be celebrating my youngest child's 21st birthday in a couple of weeks. Now I know you're probably expecting another "I can't believe I'm that old" column, but instead I thought I would take this opportunity to impart some sage advice to my soon-to-be-legal daughter. It just might be good advice for all of us. Enjoy your first beer (insert "wink" emoji here). Maybe even two. But I'm telling you, it only goes downhill after that. I may or may not be speaking...
We stood in the green room Saturday night before our final performance of "Hinsdale Unmasked" and talked about all that's happened since our last Community Revue in 2020. We've lost three longtime cast members - Dick Johnson, BJ Chimenti and Ly Hotchkin. We've dealt with individual losses and unwelcome diagnoses and other challenges. Oh, and there's been that other little thing: the global pandemic. It was the most emotional pre-show gathering I've experienced in the eight...
Extracurricular activities can help students make new friends, explore their creativity or hone their athletic skills. They also can save lives. Hinsdale resident Emma Gerhard is a junior at Benet Academy in Lisle and co-president of the Young Hearts For Life Junior Board. Founded by Dr. Joseph Marek in 2006, YH4L performs cardiac screenings on thousands of high school students each year. In its 16-year history, YH4L has screened more than a quarter million teenagers and...
In just three days, we can officially bid farewell to winter. At 10:33 a.m. Sunday, March 20, the Northern Hemisphere will celebrate the Spring Equinox, the time when daylight begins to win out over darkness. Some TV meteorologists might have led you to believe that the start of spring — “meteorological spring” — was March 1. They made that up. The vernal equinox marks the halfway point between the winter solstice in December and the summer solstice in June, marking the shortest and longest days of the year, respect...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports March 15. DUI arrest Kevin C. Backus, 51, 437 Ridge Ave., Clarendon Hills, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with a blood-alcohol content higher than .08 and speeding at 1:13 a.m. March 10 in the 5900 block of South Madison Street. He was charged and released to appear in court. Arrests on warrants • James R. Pantel, 32, 38575 N. Lewis Ave., Beach Park, was arrested on a warrant out of Lake County at 10:26 p.m. March 12 at County Line Road and 5...
Gregory Kentra of Hinsdale was found not guilty Jan. 26 of driving under the influence of alcohol and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident in connection with an incident March 11, 2021, at Madison and 57th streets in which a pedestrian was struck. Judge Michael Fleming of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court did find him guilty for failing to yield at a crosswalk....
Hinsdale Central students would get out of school by 1 p.m. Wednesdays most weeks during the year under recommended changes to the district’s calendar. At the March 10 Hinsdale High School District 86 committee of the whole meeting, board members discussed a proposal from the district’s calendar committee to replace the current mix of late-start Mondays and flex-learning Wednesdays with early-release Wednesdays. Central Principal Bill Walsh said the shifting rhythms to make time for professional development resulted in con...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, March 24 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 Hinsdale Public Library, 20 E. Maple St. https://www.hinsdalelibrary.info On the draft agenda: confidentiality of records, PCI security, behavior and room use policies, funds transfer resolution, staff recognition expenses...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business March 10, board members: • discussed the three-minute pitch process that the board has been using to determine future agenda items and potential creation of a new process for determining future agenda items that would replace the pitch. Some board members think they should not need a majority of board members to agree to add an item to the agenda as is now required. Consensus was not reached, and board President Terri Walker recommended that the topic be revisited a...
Ashley Principe was pictured working with a student on his resume in a photo than ran with a March 10 story on the District 86 Transition Center. She was misidentified in the caption....
Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 plans to spend about $703,000 to buy new math materials, including textbooks and digital resources, for the 2022-23 school year. The Math Subject Area Committee recommended i-Ready Classroom Mathematics for students in kindergarten through fifth grade at a cost of $555,833 and EdGems math for sixth- through eighth-graders at a cost of $147,526. Those costs include paper and digital resources as well as teacher training. Kathy Robinson, assistant superintendent of learning,...
When Hinsdale Central student Niko Rhodes learned Russia had invaded Ukraine, his first thoughts were of how to help the people there - including members of his own family. He has relatives in both countries on his mom's side of the family, and his stepmom and two young half-sisters were in Kyiv at the time of the invasion. "They couldn't drive out because the traffic jams to the west were so massive," he said. "Buses, same problem. Trains were not running, or the train...
Come June 1, the need to feed parking meters in downtown Hinsdale could be a thing of the past. Trustees and staff discussed a plan to allow three-hour zoned parking in the central business district at Tuesday's Hinsdale Village Board meeting. Village President Tom Cauley said officials have been talking about removing the 300 meters for some time. "It's something we started considering before COVID but shelved during COVID. COVID had just started when we opened the new...
Safe harbour - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," shows The Life Boat Rescue Home for unwed mothers and abandoned children. The home was started and managed by the Hinsdale Sanitarium. "Relocated in 1903 from Chicago to Hinsdale, the home was strongly supported by village residents, expanding in 1909 to the building shown here at 328 Phillipa St. The home provided shelter, counseling, adoption placement, employment asistance and the...
