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The last couple of weeks have been doozies. Fights are breaking out online among neighbors, coyotes are prowling the streets and the unusually warm weather has meant that gangs of middle school e-bikers look like the 2024 update to "The Fast and the Furious." Last week, when emotions were running particularly high on both sides of the political aisle, I met my fellow members of the Garden Study Club of Hinsdale at Graue Mill to make the giant annual holiday wreath that hangs...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: tax levy presentation and resolution, fall MAP and school report card presentation, disposition of surplus property, math/ELA/ACE placement approval, superintendent succession plan, fund balance strategy Hinsdale Economic Development Commission 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6...
The 2024 Illinois Report Cards were released last week, and administrators already are examining the data and considering how to use it to help students. Community Consolidated Ele-mentary District 181 and Hinsdale High School District 86 continue to perform well, according to standards set by the Illinois State Board of Education, which issues the report cards. Six District 181 schools and Hinsdale Central were ranked as exemplary for performing in the top 10 percent of...
Something creepy lurks at the dead end of Canterbury Court. The underworld has taken over this dark corner of Hinsdale, disfiguring a lovely home into Massacre Manor. Tombstones, skeletons and giant spiders greet brave visitors looking to test their fear factor. The haunted house is the brainchild of Leo Dean, a senior at Benet Academy who lives a normal life there with his family when it's not Halloween season. Leo explained that the concept was birthed, well, out of his birt...
ILMEA HONORS STUDENT MUSICIANS Several students from Clarendon Hills and Hinsdale middle schools were recognized by the Illinois Music Education Association and will be part of the association’s ensembles this year. CHMS Concert Band James Koziel, bassoon Evan Woods, trumpet Jazz Band Smith Barnum, trumpet Sachin Bhattacharyya, alto sax Ayden Chaudhry, trombone Radha Kaushal-Goel, guitar James Koziel, piano Tyler Shuster, trombone Josh Tenjiku, piano Evan Woods, trumpet Chorus Joshua Castro, baritone Isabella Chiedragchaa, a...
Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 Among other business Monday, board members: • selected BWP & Associates to conduct the search for a new superintendent after Hector Garcia retires at the end of the 2025-26 school year. The board heard presentations from three firms two weeks ago and selected BWP in large part because of its familiarity with the district. A contract, including the cost of the search, has yet to be finalized. • reviewed the preliminary tax levy memo, which estimates the December levy, or ann...
Hinsdale native Tate Renner barely sang the first half a dozen words of "Hurricane" during blind auditions for "The Voice" when Michael Bublé hit his button and turned his chair. "I couldn't turn fast enough," Bublé told him after his performance. "I don't usually say it, but I was the first because I knew that America would love you as much as I did." Fellow judges Snoop Dogg and Reba McEntire also wanted in on the chance to coach Renner, turning their chairs as well. "...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21 Hinsdale Middle School 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: preliminary tax levy memo, facilities master plan recommendations, superintendent search firm selection, district office building bid award, math/ELA/ACE placement criteria, SEL update, inclement weather, maintenance grant approval Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien www...
From the archives - This photo of the Hinsdale Township High School boys track team from 1929 captures a moment in history outside the old high school, now the site of Hinsdale Middle School. Pictured are (top row from left) are Joe Lynch, John Bayliss, Les Borsom, Bill Foote, Heine Lehman, Dick McMakin, Donnie Armstrong, (bottom row from left) Chuck Pettit, Ed Amacker, A. Dreusicke, Jack Hartman, Bruce Brown and Ed Duorak. (Hinsdale Historical Society phot...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports Oct. 1 and 8. DUI arrests • John Wright, 66, 538 Iroquois Road, Hillside, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and improper lane use at 1:02 a.m. Oct. 5 at Stough Street and the BNSF crossing after police responded to report of a vehicle driven onto the train tracks. He refused tests to determine his blood-alcohol content. He was charged and released to appear in court. • Grzegorz Filonczuk, 37, 8139 Roberts Road, 2N, Bridgeview, was arrested for driving und...
District 181 Superintendent Hector Garcia starts the mascot race at The Rotary Club of Hinsdale's Charity Classic Sunday morning. The mascots competing are Miles the Mustang (Monroe School), Echo the Eagle (Clarendon Hills Middle School), Sparty the Spartan (Hinsdale Middle School), Spike the Bulldog (The Lane School), Hootie the Owl (Oak School), Paws the Panther (Madison School), Walker the Wildcat (Walker School) and Dash the Panther (Prospect School). Hinsdale Middle...
Irving Vant Clarke, 100, a 94-year resident of Hinsdale, passed away Sept. 22, 2024. Mr. Clarke was born in 1924, in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of Kenton Harper Clarke Jr. and Dorothy Vant Clarke, and the younger brother of Kenton Harper Clarke III, who was an Army Air Corps pilot in World War II killed when his bomber was shot down over the Pacific. His family moved to Hinsdale in 1930 where he attended Monroe School and Hinsdale Township High School when it was located on the...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business Sept. 12, board members: • heard Superintendent Mike Lach report that work at the Hinsdale Central pool in on track to be finished in time for the girls swimming and diving senior night meet on Oct. 11. “There’s still a ways to go,” he said. “I don’t want to overpromise, but things right now are on track.” • listened to a security update from Geoff Cooker, the district’s director of security. Earlier that day he had attended the annual emergency operations plan m...
It's a common refrain in Hinsdale. "We pay high taxes to live here." And residents do - in part because their homes are worth a lot of money. But when they make that statement to Village President Tom Cauley, he has some additional information he shares with them. "People assume that their property taxes go mostly to the village, and I tell them it's only 7 percent, and people are usually surprised by that," he said. The village's portion of the tax bill - including the...
Ashley Ashbaugh Hinsdale What made you want to play flag football? I've always wanted to play a school sport. I've been playing hockey my entire life. I do play on a high school team that is considered the school team, but there are six other teams that are part of it. When I saw flag football was coming in, I thought that would be awesome. I think girls that play sports grow up to be good leaders. I think it's awesome how girls sports are evolving from where they were. What...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: full-day kindergarten update, summer capital projects summary, district office building update, enrollment report, summer 2024 programs review, 2024-25 curriculum and professional learning highlights Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 Hinsdale Central High School, 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the...
For the first time the Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills Middle School bands combined to play to a full house at The Venue in Aurora in June. Jaya Fitzgerald, Alex Franses, Sachin Bhattacharyya and Audrey Bailey were among the performers. The HMS band will perform its first concert Oct. 16, the CHMS band Nov. 7. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
The girls flag football team, new this year to Hinsdale Central and the IHSA, along with the boys football and soccer teams and the girls tennis team are the focus of this third and final installment of the season preview series. Previous installments ran Aug. 22 and 29. Girls flag football First game: Sept. 3 vs. Hinsdale South (V loses 48-0) Head coach: Nick Gebhart Seasons as head coach: 1st No. varsity team members: 35 Strengths: Our work ethic is tremendous. We try to...
What do you hope to accomplish your senior year? Meiyan Zhu has one goal for her senior year of high school, and that's to make it the best one it can be. "I'm making sure high school doesn't pass me by," Zhu said. She's made a conscious decision to spend her final year of high school trying new things and stepping back just a bit from her rigorous academic schedule to make time for fun. Just days into the new school year, Zhu already has added a line to her resume as a...
Part two of our Hinsdale Central fall sports preview series examines the boys and girls cross country squads and the girls volleyball team. Both running programs have experience on their side, with room for newcomers to make their mark, while girls volleyball is looking to take the next step in a recent run of postseason success. The final installment in the series will run in the Sept. 5 issue. Boys cross country First meet: Aug, 28 vs. Benet & Fenwick Last year: 22nd in...
Covering the final Uniquely Thursdays concert last week for the final installment of our Summer Days series brought back lots of memories. Since I've worked in Hinsdale forever, I was around when the concert series launched in 2002. That year, and for the five summers that followed, the event took place on First Street between Garfield Avenue and Washington Street. I remember those early concerts well. So does Washington Street resident Lynette Lovelace, who was involved with...
Shelbi Domjen doesn't have to think long about what or who influenced her to enter the field of education. The daughter of an elementary school teacher, Domjen said she spent many hours in the classroom with her mother while her father worked long hours on their family's farm. "My entire childhood was a classroom with my mom," said Domjen, who now has a classroom of her own as a fifth-grade teacher at Monroe School. Domjen said that other than the family's agricultural...
Not many guitarists can say they played their first show with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters. Eighteen-year-old Lauren Hunter of Hinsdale can. "That day completely changed my life," said Hunter, who started playing guitar in 2020, just a year before her parents surprised her with tickets to see her favorite band. Having seen videos of Grohl inviting fans on stage to play with the band, Hunter carried a sign asking for the honor. "It went crazy viral," Hunter said of the resul...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: construction update, end-of-year budget highlights, safety update, D181 collaboration, new staff, Clarendon Hills TIF proposal Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the agenda: PaCE Framework introduction, SAT to ACT transition and...
After two women challenged 11 books available in Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 libraries at an April school board, The Hinsdalean decided to do its own review of the materials. The 11 books range from picture books including "Julian is a Mermaid" and "Ogilvy" to graphic novels like "Drama" and "The Cardboard Kingdom" (see sidebar for full list). According to the American Library Association, the number of books challenged in libraries across the country was...
