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Balancing act - Livi Dombrowski and Sawyer Myhra work on a skills challenge in Robbins Park Monday afternoon. With Illinois entering Phase 4, the 5 Star Soccer Premier Day Camp was able to resume its annual summer programs in Hinsdale and other locations. Besides the soccer skills being taught, social distancing was a primary focus during the camp. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Hinsdale High School District 86 officials expect in-person learning to resume for the 2020-21 school year. But exactly what that will look like in the midst of a pandemic remains unclear. At the June 25 school board meeting, Superintendent Tammy Prentiss updated board members on the work of the district's Recovery-Revitalization-Restored Committee, a group composed of teachers, department chairs, and building and district administrators charged with crafting return-to-school...
By the end of July, Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 officials hope to have a guidebook and web page that details procedures for reopening schools available to families. “We will continue our conversations in the coming weeks and want to be sure we are incorporating the voices of our teachers, staff, parents and community partners,” Superintendent Hector Garcia wrote in a June 26 email to district families. The district has formed a transition team that includes a school board representative, a PTO president fro...
Nancy Pollak, who served as president of the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board from May 2019 to May 2020, resigned from the board effective July 1. She and her family are permanently relocating to a home they own in Michigan. Pollak had expected to finish her term in 2021 before moving, but the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 altered her plans, she told The Hinsdalean. “We’ve already spent 100 days (in Michigan) this year. It just seemed to make sense,” she said. Asked if her decision was prompted by happenings in th...
FIREFIGHTERS EARN HARTMANN AWARD Six members of the Hinsdale Fire Department recently received the Hartmann Award from the Good Samaritan Hospital EMS System for their efforts to save a man on Aug. 6, 2019. They are Chief/paramedic John Gianelli, Capt./paramedic Michael Neville, Lt./paramedic Andrew Ziemer and firefighter/paramedics Douglas Niemeyer, Patrick Schaberg and Michael Wilson. The fire department was dispatched for a man trapped in a storm drain on a berm about 30 feet off the road who was not breathing. The patient...
Hinsdale police are alerting residents to a number of auto burglaries that have taken place in Hinsdale in the past week. • A handgun valued at $600 was taken from a vehicle parked in the driveway in the 100 block of South County Line Road between 11 a.m. June 23 and 8:30 a.m. June 24. • A $100 cooler, $100 laptop, $250 computer, $80 headphones, two external hard drives valued at $100, a computer mouse and keyboard and about $5 in change was taken from an unlocked vehicle parked in a driveway in the 400 block of West Hic...
A total of 193 Hinsdale residents have confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of June 30, compared to 184 a week ago. The DuPage County Health Department reported 181 confirmed cases in Hinsdale and the Cook County Health Department reported 12 confirmed cases in the village. A total of 168 confirmed cases and 32 deaths are associated with ManorCare in Hinsdale, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Those numbers include residents and staff who might not be DuPage County residents. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had five...
Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 8 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: findings and recommendations on proposed moratorium, continued public hearing on Ryan senior housing development at Ogden and Adams (contingent on submittal of updated plans)...
The man convicted of killing Andrea Urban in the kitchen of her Hinsdale home on May 4, 2017, was sentenced Tuesday to natural life in prison. In sentencing Dominic Sanders of University Park, DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Brian Telander agreed with the jury that the murder was exceptionally brutal and heinous and indicative of wanton cruelty, the legal standard for imposing natural life. A jury in January found Sanders guilty of first-degree murder, home invasion and residential burglary. Telander disagreed with the...
Fun at the club - In 1899 The Hinsdale Club built this building at the corner of Garfield Avenue and First Street. The club was the center of village social life at the time. This photo is from Sandy Williams' book "Images of America - Hinsdale." 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]....
A week before plan commissioners finished their deliberations on a proposed moratorium to stop the demolition of historic homes, Village President Tom Cauley presented a draft ordinance designed to help preserve such homes. The draft is actually a revision to Title 14 of the village code, which covers historic preservation. The new language offers several incentives to homeowners who want to renovate a historic home, including an exemption from floor-area ratio requirements (which regulate the size of a home relative to the...
The Hinsdale Plan Commission does not support a 180-day moratorium on the teardown of historic homes in the village. The 4-2 vote came at the close of a public hearing during which commissioners listened to more than eight hours of comments stretched across three sessions. Because the hearing was held via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic, residents were allowed to call in or submit written comments expressing their opinion. "The village board of trustees wanted community...
Community Consolidated District 181 Board members approved a tentative 2020-21 budget that projects a $2.2 million surplus in the district’s operating fund as well as healthy balance sheets through 2025. At Monday’s board meeting, Chief Financial Officer Mohsin Dada presented a budget of $71.3 million in revenue and $64.4 million in expenses. That compares with last year’s figures of $69.6 million and $65 million, respectively. Of the $6.8 million excess in operating funds, $4.5 million will be transferred to other accounts....
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker announced a new tool to track county-by-county progress in the fight against the novel coronavirus Thursday, but as the state readied to enter the next phase of reopening, he also warned that he would not hesitate to move certain regions backward if progress subsides. The announcement came as the Illinois Department of Public Health announced 894 new cases of COVID-19 over the previous 24 hours, the most since June 6 when there were 975 reported. But IDPH also announced there were 31,686 t...
Friday night at the movies - The Hinsdale Park and Recreation Department's drive in movie at Katherine Legge Memorial Park sold out Friday night. With perfect weather, the "drive in" parking lot was full. The kids had comfy seats - from lawn chairs to the back of SUVs - and plenty of treats to enjoy the showing of "The Secret Life of Pets 2." Getting ready for the show are Shreyas and Arjun Nath, Evie and Carter Pearson, Jack Enright, James Frankel and Sam Pesdi, and Adeline,...
COLLEGE STUDENTS ON DEANS LIST Several Hinsdale students have earned a place on the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities for the spring 2020 semester. Cameron Anderson, University of Alabama* Ekatarina Antipov, University of Alabama Nick Becker, Marquette University Olivia Berley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kayla Cameron, Iowa State University Evan Cotton, Northern Illinois University Emma Dillard, University of Wisconsin-Madison Christian Early, Denison University Hannah Eichelman, Marquette U...
A total of 184 Hinsdale residents have confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of June 23, compared to 181 a week ago. The DuPage County Health Department reported 173 confirmed cases in Hinsdale and the Cook County Health Department reported 11 confirmed cases in the village. A total of 168 confirmed cases and 31 deaths are associated with ManorCare in Hinsdale, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Those numbers include residents and staff who might not be DuPage County residents. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had seven...
With a few new rules in place, the Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce 44th annual Farmers Market returned to town this month. And while masks are required and a few food vendors aren't yet able to open, the market is up and running Mondays through Oct. 12. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
Christina Vasquez pauses for a moment while creating a picture for Stockholm Objects on Washington Street. Several Hinsdale merchants chose to board up their stores earlier this month while marchers were protesting the killing of George Floyd. Stockholm Objects decided to turn its plywood into a mural. Vasquez, a former employee, returned home from Spain, where she was teaching art, when COVID-19 cases began to spike there earlier this year. (Jim Slonoff ph...
Trinity Sober Living is no longer limited to nine residents in its sober house in Hinsdale, following a June 10 order issued by Judge Brian Diamond of the DuPage County 18th District Circuit Court. The court originally stayed all litigation in the case to allow the federal court to rule on the issues of preemption after Trinity filed a federal lawsuit in November claiming the village of Hinsdale is discriminating against residents of the The Sober House at 111 N. Grant St. “The court was led to believe, at that time, that t...
Hinsdale High School District 86 is looking for a new chief human resources officer following the resignation of Domenico Maniscalco. The school board accepted his resignation at a special meeting June 18. When contacted Tuesday via text, Maniscalco told The Hinsdalean that he sent an email to Superintendent Tammy Prentiss Monday rescinding his resignation. He was under the impression it would be the subject of a board vote at tonight’s meeting. Prentiss said that is not the case. “It is not a board agenda item for this Thu...
Community Consolidated District 181 Among other business Monday, board members: • approved the three-year purchase of the Actively Learn digital curriculum platform for middle school language arts classes at a cost of $43,120. Actively Learn will be implemented during the 2020-21 school year after having been piloted at Hinsdale and Clarendon middle schools from January to March. Officials said the resource will support literacy instruction at the schools and provides pre-existing content and the ability for teachers to u...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, June 25 https://www.d86.hindale86.org/virtual On the agenda: approved FY2020-21 tentative budget, 2019-20 budget amendment public hearing, Recovery-Revitalization-Restored Committee update, board committee appointments Hinsdale Historic Preservation Commission 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 1 https://www.villageofhinsdale.org...
Procession from the past - Ralph Homann sent us this photo from Memorial Day 1957. The Hinsdale Township High School band was marching along Washington Street near Chicago Avenue. 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]....
This summer, Ronan Martin had planned to celebrate his graduation from Hinsdale Central High School with a trip to Spain with dad Chris, walking the 220-kilometer road know as the "Camino" from Porto to Santiago. The trip had to be canceled due to COVID-19, and it isn't the only one the Martins missed out on this year. Political unrest precluded a journey to Lebanon in March, and the alternative destination of Brazil was ruled out due to the pandemic. Fortunately, the...
