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Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: public hearing on and adoption of fiscal year 2020-21 budget, update on return to school plan, policy approval, 2020-21 school year calendar updates, summer school report...
Perhaps you’ve seen the photo of Ridgway Burns on his bike, pulling a small book trailer, on the cover of the Hinsdale Public Library’s fall 2020 newsletter, “Beyond Books.” Burns is wearing his helmet and — thanks to COVID-19 — his face covering. The picture says it all. Library board members and staff have worked hard to continue serving residents during this unprecedented pandemic. And residents aren’t willing to give up what they’ve come to expect from this amazing community asset. September is Library Card Sign-up Mo...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 https://d86.hinsdale86.org...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business Sept. 10, board members: • voted 7-0 to issue almost $46.1 million in bonds, the third bond sale related to the $139.8 million building referendum voters approved in an April 2019 referendum. The sale is expected to generate $50.6 million in proceeds, due to a “premium” (bonds trade above their “par” or face value). The district received a premium on its first two bond sales as well, receiving $70 million from its first sale of $62.26 million and $34.9 million f...
Some students will be back in the buildings at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South high schools this month, with in-person classes set to resume until Oct. 5. Even then, only 25 percent of each school's enrollment will return, with plans to bring more teens back to campus in the weeks that follow, Superintendent Tammy Prentiss told Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members at their Sept. 10 meeting. The roughly 100 parents and students who gathered at a "We Stand for the...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14 https://www.d181.org On the agenda: 2020-21 budget approval, 2020-21 revised assessment calendar, sixth-day enrollment report, ad hoc health committee update, HMS update Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: strategic plan Goal 1 update, issue $46 million general obligation school building bonds, return to school update, final budget FY 2021 Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m....
DOCtors join MEDICAL GROUP DuPage Medical Group has welcomed 14 new physicians in a variety of specialties, including two who see patients in Hinsdale. • Dr. Ashish Arora is board-certified in gastroenterology. He earned his medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He completed his residency in internal medicine as well as his fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatology at Loyola University Medical Center. • Dr. Laura Hamad earned her doctorate of osteopathic medicine from Midwestern Universit...
What does it take to be a social worker? Simply put, Maggie Buoy is "the true definition of a social worker." Those are the words of a Hinsdale Central parent, but that sentiment was echoed by her colleagues during remarks last week at the District 86 board meeting. They spoke in recognition of Buoy being named 2020 School Social Worker of the Year by the Illinois Association of School Social Workers. "I'm very shocked, honored, grateful, humbled and very appreciative," she...
Hinsdale High School District 86 officials are reviewing information released last week by the DuPage County Health Department to determine possible next steps in an effort to eventually implement the district’s hybrid model for instruction. The district announced Aug. 13 that it would start the school year with remote learning exclusively in the wake of newly issued guidelines from the Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois State Board of Education. The new guidelines tightened protocols in the event of a p...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 https://d86.hinsdale86.org Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Commission 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8 https://www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: review of KLM lacrosse field grading, park surveys, grant update, pedestrian bridge at Veeck Park Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9 https://www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: public hearing on McNaughton proposal for Heather Highlands...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: tour Hinsdale Central referendum classroom renovations; bond premium discussion; approve director of security contract and agreement with The Community House; updates on returning to school, school year calendar and standardized assessments...
Ly Hart Hotchkin, 95, a community activist for more than 50 years, died peacefully Aug. 23, 2020. Ly attended Chicago Public Schools and the University of Chicago, Class of 1947. She was employed as executive director of The Community House in Hinsdale for 37 years. She was elected to two terms to the Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 Board and the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board. The Hinsdale Central High School Foundation inducted her into its Hall of Fame in 1999. Ly served on the following boards:...
I first met Ly Hotchkin some 30 years ago. If I remember correctly, I had just become managing editor of The Doings when I was sent to The Community House to meet her. Ly wanted someone from the organization to write a column about something or other, and I knew I was going to have to tell her no. I was still in my 20s and found Ly a bit intimidating. She seemed used to getting her own way, and the thought of refusing her request scared me a little. I remained slightly...
Was that a cough? A sniffle? Did it take place in a classroom? Or a school hallway? Then that student — and her siblings — must be sent home to quarantine until a COVID-19 test comes back negative or a doctor makes an alternative diagnosis. “Probable cases” (kids with COVID-like symptoms who are epidemiologically linked to a known case) will have to be quarantined, with siblings, for 14 days. Any time kids experience any one of a dozen other symptoms (that also could mean a cold or flu), the same thing will happen. They wi...
Hinsdale High School District 86 students expecting to have their first in-person classes today since the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools in March will instead be learning from home, the district announced last week. Frustration levels were high at the district's board meeting Aug. 13 as Superintendent Tammy Prentiss informed the board of education that, due to more stringent return-to-school guidance issued Aug. 12 by the Illinois Department of Public Health and the...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24 https://www.d181.org On the draft agenda: 2020-21 reopening plan safety protocol, 2020-21 amended school calendar Hinsdale Economic Development Commission 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26 https://www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: fall/winter events (Wine Walk, Holidays in Hinsdale), Shop Local/Welcome Back Week review and survey results, new liaison Nathan Parce Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27...
I asked Ken yesterday what happened at the Hinsdale Village Board the previous night. "They're going with a hybrid model," he replied dryly. "Tom, Laurel and Jerry will attend the first meeting of the month. Scott, Neale, Matt and Luke will attend the second meeting." He jests, of course, but the "hybrid model" is on our minds. We've spent a lot of time learning and writing about hybrid plans for Hinsdale students to return to school. First I "attended" (i.e. watched online)...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, https://www.d181.org On the agenda: approval of the 2020-21 school reopening plan hybrid model Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13 https://www.d86.hinsdale86.org/virtual On the agenda: approve memo of understanding with HHSTA, approve additional staffing due to COVID-19 pandemic, return to school update, committee participation and meeting schedule update Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18 Hinsdale...
The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board on Monday appointed Tamakia “TJ” Edwards to fill the board vacancy. Edwards is the founder of Inner-View Coaching and Consulting Services as well as the capital construction program manager and project executive for the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Public Buildings Service. The Darien resident and mother of three sons alao has served as a member of the special committee working in conjunction with the district’s facilities committee. She said that joining the board i...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, https://www.d181.org Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, https://www.hinsdale86.d86.org Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, https://www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale Village Board 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, https://www.villageofhinsdale.org...
“I’ve been enjoying your crossword puzzle,” a friend mentioned to me at a party a couple of weeks ago. We tend to get a little insulted when people talk about what they love most in the paper and it’s something — like horoscopes or police beat — that we did not write. But this is a friend I know to be an avid reader of the paper. So I wasn’t offended when he told me he has been enjoying our crossword puzzles. I recognize he is not alone due to the uptick in our phone call vo...
Parents of school-age children have been riding the “What will fall look like?” bus for months now. Most likely boarded hopeful they’d be let off at the “Back in class with safety measures” stop. Crossing from spring into summer, the combination remote/in-person model appeared on the horizon as an alternative destination as COVID-19’s persistence compelled some rerouting. In recent weeks, a number of Hinsdale’s surrounding school districts have announced plans to — at the risk of straining the metaphor a bit more — essentia...
Like most people, Isabella Xu was finding it hard to escape the constant flow of news, headlines and updates regarding the spread of COVID-19. But despite the 24-7 onslaught of information, Xu could find very little about how the pandemic, the abrupt end to the traditional school year and the sudden need to stay at home was affecting people her age. Rather than sit and wonder, the soon-to-be Hinsdale Central sophomore took it upon herself to initiate a research project to...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board • approved a revised 2020-21 school year calendar that lists Nov. 3 (Election Day) as a state holiday as required, makes Nov. 25 (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving) a remote learning day and changes the first day of student attendance from Aug. 12 to Aug. 17. Curriculum night and parent-teacher conferences will be virtual. • listened as board President Kevin Camden thanked former board member Nancy Pollak for her service prior to her resignation and move out of state. He said the boa...
District 86 students will start the school year with a hybrid schedule that combines two days a week of in-person classes with three days a week of remote learning. “The students are at the center of our planning effort, but the decisions are based on the health and safety of the entire community,” Superintendent Tammy Prentiss said at the July 23 Hinsdale High School District 86 Board meeting. “Our ultimate goal is to return to 100 percent in-person instruction, but it is not possible at this time due to the guide...
