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  • Parents unhappy with school mask mandate

    Pamela Lannom|Updated Sep 1, 2021

    Gov. JB Pritzker’s mandate for universal masking in schools is not sitting well with several parents who spoke out against it at the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board meeting Aug. 26. Among them was state Rep. Deanne Mazzochi (R-47, Elmhurst), who criticized the governor and other Democrats. “I’m here tonight to warn you that you cannot count on the majority party in the legislature in Springfield to protect you from executive overreach,” she said. “The data in DuPage and in this district in particular did not justify t...

  • Increase in positive cases holding steady

    Updated Sep 1, 2021

    Twenty-one new Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 16 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported five new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 1,936, compared to 1,915 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had eight confirmed COVID-19 patients and three patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokesman said. In Hinsdale High School District 86, the positive count has yet to be updated...

  • Meeting roundup

    Updated Sep 1, 2021

    Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business Aug. 26, board members: • listened to a presentation from Josh Stephenson, chief financial officer, on the final 2021-22 budget. The plan estimates $124.2 million in revenues and $167.5 million in expenses. If referendum projects are removed from the total, since revenue was received in the previous fiscal year, the $43.4 million deficit becomes a $200,000 surplus. A public hearing on the budget is set for Sept. 16. • permanently tabled a resolution that would hav...

  • Merchants content to comply with the mask mandate

    Ken Knutson|Updated Sep 1, 2021

    In the wake of Gov. JB Pritzker's indoor mask mandate that took effect Monday to address rising COVID-19 cases, Hinsdale businesses say the impact has been minimal. Ryan Moore, manager of Fuller House, said the restaurant had one of its busiest lunch crowds in recent weeks on Tuesday. "If the reopen, shutdown, reopen, showed us anything, it's that the people of Hinsdale are more than willing to come out and enjoy themselves still," Moore said. Having ample outdoor dining space...

  • Weekly agenda

    Updated Aug 25, 2021

    Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: closed session from 5 to about 6:30 p.m., new contract with HTHSSA, budget for fiscal year 2022, temporary leave cover for Hinsdale Central athletic director Hinsdale Historic Preservation Commission 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: public hearing on demolition request for 319 E. Third, public meeting on new...

  • D86 announces plans for school start

    Pamela Lannom|Updated Aug 25, 2021

    Hinsdale High School District 86 schools will open next week with a variety of COVID-19 mitigation strategies in place, including universal masking. The district's goal is to maximize consistent, full-time, in-person instruction, Superintendent Tammy Prentiss said in introducing the plan. "All of these strategies matter and we use them," she said. "Working together, they provide the best defense." In addition to wearing masks, as mandated Aug. 4 by Gov. JB Pritzker, students w...

  • Weekly agenda

    Updated Aug 18, 2021

    Hinsdale Economic Development Commission 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. https://www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org...

  • Masks aren't only measure to keep students safe

    Updated Aug 18, 2021

    Students head back to school next week in Community Consolidated School District 181 and Hinsdale High School District 86. We’ve already written about the importance of getting vaccines for teens who are eligible and wearing masks. But there is something else we can do as adults to help protect kids this school year. We can pay an extra bit of attention to our driving habits. Heading back to class is always a change in routine for kids on their way to and from school. That means they might not always be paying as much a...

  • Weekly agenda

    Updated Aug 11, 2021

    Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. https://www.d181.org On the draft agenda: start of the year plan, safety and crisis informational update, memo of understanding with HCHTA approval Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12 Hinsdale South High School,7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: opening school plan, community engagement plan next steps, agreements with Anew Collective...

  • Weekly agenda

    Updated Aug 4, 2021

    Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: public hearing on 149 E. Ogden Ave. (The Pride of Hinsdale convenience store), public meeting on 531 N. Oak St., sign permit review for 137 S. Garfield Ave. (Union Church) Hinsdale Village Board 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave....

  • People-pleasing can be dangerous motive for board

    Updated Aug 4, 2021

    In the span of six weeks, the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board voted to dismantle plans that had been in the works for months or even years. Board members voted in June to halt the shift to an integrated math curriculum and then in July rejected “physics first” as the appropriate science sequence for all students. We wonder what they will tackle next. The board majority, which consists of four newcomers who beat out three incumbents in the April election, has been operating under the rallying cry that it is doing the...

  • Middle ground eyed in D86 science battle

    Ken Knutson|Updated Jul 29, 2021

    Hinsdale High School District 86 students will have some latitude in choosing science classes starting in the 2022-23 school year under a compromise plan. After more than two hours of discussion on the contentious issue of science sequencing at the July 22 meeting, board members came to consensus. They directed administrators to plan to offer the previously approved physics-chemistry-biology model while also allowing students to take the newly developed courses in the traditional biology-first order. “I want to see students a...

  • Watch videos of Central renovation

    Updated Jul 28, 2021

    In May, Hinsdale High School District 86 began creating weekly video updates about its Future Ready Facilities projects. Links to the videos are available at https://d86.hinsdale86.org/Page/1806. In the latest video posted July 23, Jeff Dvorak from Pepper Construction talks about the work being done on the following renovation projects happening at Hinsdale Central: • installation of stadium bleachers in the new natatorium along with a glass railing for the bleachers • installation of a video board and lighting over the poo...

  • We must work together to emerge from COVID-19

    Updated Jul 28, 2021

    July talk of returning to the classroom may seem premature — even cruel — for some. But school administrators, as they have since March of 2020, are working to navigate COVID-19 waters that have suddenly turned choppier, reminding all of us that the pandemic is not over. In just 10 days this month, the average test positivity rate in DuPage County more than doubled, increasing from 1.7 percent on July 14 to 3.7 percent on July 24. While the availability of ICU beds remains relatively stable, the average number of pat...

  • Meeting roundup

    Updated Jul 28, 2021

    Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business July 21, board members: • listened to the district’s attorney, Steven Richart, discuss the determination by Illinois Attorney General Office’s Public Access Counselor that the board improperly took final action on an adaptive pause at a meeting last year. Maryam Judar of the Citizen Advocacy Center asked the PAC to review the board’s informal vote during its Nov. 19, 2020, meeting on Superintendent Tammy Prentiss’ proposal to take an adaptive pause, though the matte...

  • Hinsdale could host its own Summer Games

    Updated Jul 21, 2021

    The Tokyo Olympics — which start Friday — will feature 11,000 athletes competing in 339 events across 33 sports over 17 days. The 621 members of Team USA hope to capture their fair share of the 5,000 medals available (made out of 79,000 tons of recycled electronics). NBCUniversal will air more than 7,000 hours of Olympics coverage on TV and streaming video, starting at 6:55 a.m. Friday with a live broadcast of the opening ceremony. After waiting for almost a year for these Summer Games, we’re more than ready. We’re so exci...

  • Weekly agenda

    Updated Jul 21, 2021

    Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, July 22 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: discuss offering multiple science pathways at both schools, approve protocols established through Starting Right workshop, hear updates on return to school and strategic plan goals 2 and 3...

  • Trustees: Ryan proposal still too dense

    Pamela Lannom|Updated Jul 14, 2021

    Before the Hinsdale Village Board will refer Ryan Companies’ plan for a senior living facility on Ogden Avenue to the village’s plan commission, density and traffic concerns will have to be addressed. That’s the message trustees sent to Dave Erickson, Ryan Companies’ vice president of real estate development, after listening Tuesday night to Erickson outline the third and latest version of a proposal to redevelop almost 33 acres at Ogden and Adams Street owned by the Institute of Basic Life Principles. Ryan Companies present...

  • Weekly agenda

    Updated Jul 14, 2021

    Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, July 22 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Commission 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 20 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: Irma Butler tot lot equipment placement review, HPTA hut update Hinsdale Police Pension Fund Board 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 21 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave....

  • Summer headlines much more promising in 2021

    Updated Jul 7, 2021

    Summer is always an interesting time for newspapers. Government bodies — like village and school boards — typically shorten their agendas and might skip a meeting or two. Kids aren’t going to school and athletes aren’t playing high school sports. Typically, there just isn’t a lot of big news. Last summer was quite unusual, as Hinsdale and communities around the country dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic and the social unrest following the murder of George Floyd. Here’s a sampling of headlines from stories we ran last summer...

  • Phase 2 construction on track at Central

    Sandy Illian Bosch|Updated Jul 7, 2021

    If summer is a time for leisure and soaking in the sun, no one told the folks working on the renovations at Hinsdale Central High School. The improvements now underway are part of a $140 million facilities improvement project approved by voters in April 2019. The plan includes projects at Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale South High School, and the district's new Transition Center in Burr Ridge. The leased building will provide an area where young adults with special...

  • D86 to go forward on pool fill-in project

    Updated Jun 30, 2021

    The existing Hinsdale Central pool will be filled in and the space converted for uses such as gymnastics and wrestling, potentially, as swim activities relocate to the new natatorium. At their June 23 meeting, Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members voted unanimously to award bid packages to repurpose the pool area at a total cost of just more than $1.4 million, a considerable departure from the $870,000 originally estimated for the project. Nick Graal of the district’s architectural firm Arcon told board members t...

  • Meeting roundup

    Updated Jun 30, 2021

    Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business June 23, board members: • approved a tentative budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year in the amount of $123.9 million, an increase of $5.3 million, or 4.5 percent, over last year’s budget. Revenue is forecast to be $124.2 million. The spending plan does not include the $47.5 million in Future Ready Facilities work scheduled, which is paid for by proceeds from the bond sale passed by voters in a 2019 referendum. A copy of the tentative budget will be posted on the distric...

  • Weekly agenda

    Updated Jun 23, 2021

    The Hinsdale Village Board, Community Consolidated District 181 Board and Hinsdale High School District 86 Board are not scheduled to meet the week of June 28 to July 2....

  • Next week

    Updated Jun 16, 2021

    Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, June 21 Hinsdale Middle School 100 S. Garfield Ave. https://www.d181.org On the draft agenda: approve 2021-22 budget, math pilot update, HMS Windhover sculpture, COVID-19 update Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 23 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org...

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