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What is the Crisis Text Line? Young people might not always be comfortable sharing their inner struggles with a parent, school counselor or coach. That is where the Crisis Text Line comes in. Adolescents simply text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the U.S., 24 hours a day. "They will talk with a trained crisis counselor, a volunteer who has been trained to take the client from a 'hot' moment to a moment of cool calm," said Beth Murin, program and communications officer for Hin...
While waiting for my spouse's flight to arrive at the airport, I observed a woman who looked exhausted slowly walking toward the greeting area where other family and friends were waiting. You could see her tiredness in the way she walked, the expression on her face and, as she got closer, the look in her eyes. Perhaps she was weary from a long flight woefully delayed, or she was just tired from something else that day. I then saw a small boy walking toward the woman. The...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business Thursday, board members: • asked Chris Covino, assistant superintendent of academics, to come back with a plan for no more than 12 early release Wednesdays for the 2022-23 school year. The days are designed to give teachers time to collaborate and to create a more consistent schedule by eliminating late start days, Covino said. The recommended plan for 15 days would have provided students with 1,003 hours of instructional time and teachers with 23 hours of c...
After almost a year of discussion, Hinsdale trustees are referring a proposal to create a Historic Overlay District to the village’s plan commission. Homes identified as historically significant in the district would be eligible for voluntary preservation incentives ranging from fee waivers to alternative bulk zoning regulations. “I think it’s important to note the properties within the Historic Overlay District will not automatically be included,” Trustee Luke Stifflear said. “Properties will be identified and owners will be...
Hinsdale Central support staff now have a workspace that reflects the collaborative spirit they bring to helping students thrive. The school's new two-level student services center and student commons opened April 4, uniting counselors, social workers and special education personnel in proximate quarters from their once scattered outposts, said Central Principal Bill Walsh during a tour of the area. "Here are all the counselors on the first floor and special ed on the second...
Fifty-one Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 44 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported seven new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 3,766, compared to 3,715 last week. AdventHealth Hinsdale is no longer reporting on cases. Hinsdale High School District 86 reported nine positive cases as of April 12, including four staff members, three students at Central and two students at South. Communit...
Correction New Hinsdale High School District 86 Board President Erik Held’s first name was misspelled in an April 21 article about officer elections....
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, May 2 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. https://www.d181.org On the draft agenda: retirement celebrations, personnel items Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, April 28 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: attorney’s report on processing FOIA requests, formation of board academic committee, review proposed three-year calendar and early release schedule for 2022-23 s...
Hinsdale firefighters hosted a group of junior firefighters at their station earlier this month. The tour included a behind-the-scenes look at station life and a glimpse inside a fire truck and ambulance. Firefighter/paramedic Mike Lorusson explains the different gear firefighters wear while Capt. Mike Neville shows the kids equipment in the ambulance. Outside the station, Matt Siedlecki provides the power behind his son Ziggy's turn with an extinguisher. (Jim Slonoff...
Hinsdale Middle School students were again able to visit a "pop-up" World War II museum this month at HMS. The 10 exhibits were made up of artifacts from the Hinsdale Historical Society, Cantigny Museum and local families. Museum visitors also had the chance to hear from two speakers. Charlie Powers, father-in-law of HMS teacher Lisa Powers, shared his memories of the invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge as a member of the 8th Infantry. Claude Aschinberg,...
CENTRAL STAFF EARN RECOGNITION • Matthias Austin, assistant coach of the speech and debate team at Hinsdale Central High School, was named Assistant Coach of the Year for the Illinois District. He has been coaching speech at Central since 2011 and working as a full-time administrative assistant since February 2021. • Sally Phillip, activities director at Hinsdale Central, was named the District Administrator of the Year by the Illinois District of the National Speech and Debate Association. She was nominated by speech coa...
If all goes as planned, today will be opening day for the refurbished Irma Butler Tot Lot outside The Community House today. And students at Hinsdale Community Preschool, housed in The Community House, are ready to test it out, preschool director Ann Marie Berlino said. "We are delighted that it's ready to go," she said. "Looking at it with the doors locked is so hard." The $175,000 project initially was slated for completion two years ago, said Heather Bereckis,...
Over stuffed - Hinsdale Middle School students Adeline Hsieh, Kara Groom and Zaara Singh bring out several of the more than 600 boxes of cereal that were collected Thursday morning at HMS. With a half dozen squad cars filled to the brim, the Hinsdale Police Department had to put out a call to the Hinsdale Fire Department to come to the rescue with another vehicle to help with the pick up. The food collected from all nine District 181 schools weighed in at 7,374 pounds, which...
With the Stuff the Squad event taking place across District 181 last week, members of the Hinsdale Middle School Kindness Club decided to leverage the opportunity and add the ever popular YouTube "Domino Effect" to help increase donations. Using cereal boxes for dominoes, students created a maze of more than 600 boxes that weaved from the Washington Street entrance to the front door of the school near the parking lot. As last-minute boxes kept arriving, the kids had to...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business at their April 14 meeting, board members: • agreed to continue holding committee of the whole and regular business meetings the second and fourth Thursdays of most months, respectively • decided to have the committee working on the master bell schedule address the issue of scheduling alternatives for students who have a conflict with a course they want to take. Board members Jeff Waters and Debbie Levinthal will be added to the committee in order to participate in...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, April 28 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 26 Hinsdale Public Library 20 E. Maple St. https://www.hinsdalelibrary.info On the draft agenda: electric lighting proposal, emergency operational changes, executive director annual review, library open May 29 Hinsdale Village Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 26 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. https://www...
Thirty-six Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 35 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported one new case. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 3,715, compared to 3,679 last week. AdventHealth Hinsdale is no longer reporting on cases. Hinsdale High School District 86 reported two positive cases as of April 15, both involving staff members. Community Consolidated School District 181 reported 33 cases...
Early classroom - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," shows the kindergarten classroom at Monroe School in 1929, complete with fireplace and play loft. Do you have a Hinsdale photo that is at least 25 years old? We'd love to share it with our readers. Stop by our office at 7 W. First St. or email it to [email protected]....
Like so many event venues during the pandemic, The Lodge at Katherine Legge Park had some extremely quiet months the last two years. But that changed in a big way last October. “We had the biggest October on record,” said Heather Bereckis, Hinsdale’s superintendent of parks and recreation. That breakout was due largely to the backlog of wedding celebrations halted by COVID-19, she related. “We had a lot of people from 2020 that were finally able to schedule for the fall of 2021,” she explained. June and August weren’t t...
HINSDALE FUMC OFFERS SUPPORT Members of the Hinsdale United Methodist Church delivered 24 boxes of food and 10 boxes of children’s books to Olivet United Methodist Church in Chicago’s West Garfield neighborhood on Palm Sunday, April 9. The two churches have been in mission partnership for many years. This year’s delivery was particularly joyful because after two years of sending gift cards, members of the two congregations were able to meet in person. The inclusion of children’s books to the Easter food boxes was new this ye...
In a series of 4-3 votes, the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board elected a new president, vice president and secretary at its April 14 meeting. Eric Held will serve as president, Kathleen Hirsman as vice president and Terri Walker as secretary. All received support from Held, Hirsman, Walker and Cynthia Hanson. Jeff Waters nominated Peggy James for all three offices. She received three votes for each office from herself, Waters and Debbie Levinthal. Levinthal spoke up after the first two votes were complete and...
Equity work is definitely needed in Hinsdale High School District 86, Patrice Payne told board members at their April 14 meeting. Payne, who has served as director of instructional equity in the district since July 1, pointed to data and conversations with students as evidence. Research shows the powerful impact implicit bias has on students’ ability to learn, she said. It can affect special education placements, disciplinary referrals, teacher mindsets and beliefs, tracking and the dominant discourse. “What you will see is...
Hundreds of children turned out for the annual Easter Egg hunt sponsored by the village of Hinsdale and The Community House Saturday morning. And it didn't take more than a minute for the children to scoop up the 10,000 eggs that were on hand. To view of video of the hunt, visit https://www.facebook.com/thehinsdalean. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Viable sites for building a new Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 administrative center are understandably scarce in a fully developed district that is 97 percent residential. But the notion of continuing to lease office space does not appeal to some board members, who had a permanent district-owned facility in mind when they set aside $7 million 18 months ago for the endeavor. Administrators at Monday’s District 181 board meeting provided an update on the search for a new headquarters, with the two top c...
Stuff the squad - Colin Grieve, a second-grader at Madison School, drops off his donation Monday morning inside the back seat of a Hinsdale police car. Students across all District 181 schools created a partnership with the Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Burr Ridge police departments this week to collect food and supplies for clients of HCS Family Services. By the time the bell rang at Madison, three squads were packed with donations. Please turn to Page 46 for more pictures....
