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CENTRAL STUDENTS NAMED AP SCHOLARS The following Hinsdale Central students earned recognition for their performance on Advanced Placement exams taken in the spring of 2023. AP Scholars with Distinction These students earned an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. Class of 2023 Asim Abbas, Dalia Ahdab, Sarah Alamir, Isabella Alt, Mehlum Anjarwala, Marley Arquines, Alexander Aschinberg, Shrihan Atluri Mariya Bajwa, Dylan Bassett, Amy Bayarsaikhan, Aubrie...
School Exec Connect invites residents to help develop a profile that will be used to identify strong candidates and ultimately select a new superintendent for Hinsdale High School District 86. This profile will highlight district strengths and potential areas for improvement and list the characteristics stakeholders believe the next superintendent should possess. Residents have two opportunities to participate. They can take a brief online survey (six questions, 10 min) that will be open from Sept. 22 until 4 p.m. Oct. 2....
The land on which Hinsdale Central's Red Devils will celebrate Homecoming this weekend was once home to Sedgeley Farm, a regional leader in both dairy cattle breeding and use of electric power. New York-born Enos Barton helped launch Western Electric Manufacturing Co. with Oberlin College classmate Elisha Gray in Chicago in the early 1870s, eventually becoming the firm's president and then chairman of the board. In his retrospective "Hinsdale," author Timothy Bakken sheds...
Teachers and board members in Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 reached a tentative agreement on a new contract last week. Bill Cotter, serving as acting board president at Monday’s school board meeting, announced that negotiating teams for the board and the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers Association met Sept. 14 and came to consensus on a new four-year contract. “Throughout the process, all parties were focused on ensuring a fair, multi-year contract that serves the best interests of all District 181 sta...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business at their Sept. 14 meeting, board members: • listened to an update on the Academic Committee, including a discussion of revised administrative procedures for curriculum development. The new process, which is still under discussion, will include more opportunities for district residents and board members to provide input. • heard a presentation on the tentative budget for fiscal year 2023-24. The spending plan shows estimated revenues of almost $125.4 million, up 3.6...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26 Hinsdale Public Library 20 E. Maple St. www.hinsdalelibrary.info On the draft agenda: 2022 financial audit, space audit proposal, compensation benchmarking study, designating public depository resolution, policy approval...
Viva Las Vegas, the Red Devil way. Hinsdale Central is in the midst of its Homecoming week celebrations around the theme of Vegas Vacation. Varsity Club members and homecoming co-chairs Emma-Sofia Gaytan, Elena Koulouris and Anjika Kumar, all seniors, said the motif was originally considered for last spring's Prom. "Since we loved the idea so much, we decided to move it to Homecoming," Koulouris said. Activities kicked off Monday with students encouraged to wear airport...
After an armed robbery at Verizon in Addison the afternoon of Sept. 14, two offenders ended up in Hinsdale after exiting Interstate 294 at Ogden Avenue. One offender was taken into custody at Elm Street and Fuller Road after the car in which they were fleeing was disabled, according to Hinsdale Police Chief Brian King. The second fled on foot through the residential yards to the north and east. A Hinsdale officer observed the offender cross Oak Street and scale a fence at the...
A federal jury has convicted the man accused of detonating a homemade explosive in the Hinsdale train station 17 years ago. Thomas James Zajac, 70, formerly of Oakbrook Terrace, was convicted Monday of all three counts against him, including one count of attempting to destroy property with an explosive device, one count of possessing an unregistered destructive device and one count of willfully making a threat through the mail to kill or injure a person with an explosive device, according to a press release from the U.S....
Debbie Levinthal resigned this week from the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board. She addressed several topics in her resignation letter, which she emailed to The Hinsdalean Tuesday morning. She opened with words of support for Interim Superintendents Linda Yonke and Ray Lechner. “The district is in excellent hands under the leadership of Drs. Yonke and Lechner,” she wrote. “Their collective wisdom, along with the wisdom of member (Kay) Gallo at the board table, can optimally guide this district through this trans...
The Hinsdale Central Hall of Fame will induct six new members tonight, Sept. 21, at its dinner at Ruth Lake Country Club. The event has taken place every year since the inaugural class was inducted in 1997. Following are brief bios of members of the Class of 2023. Stephen Cashman Class of 1978 A National Merit Scholar, Cashman was a member of the National Honor Society, Latin Club and gymnastics team. He was part of the 1978 team that won sectional and regional championships en route to taking fifth at the state. He had...
Special delivery - Hinsdale's Sean Chaudhry came across a box of old photos tucked in a corner of his store's basement. These photos, which date back to 1939, are taken from the roof of what is now the police station looking west at the area that would become the post office. 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]....
Skylar Hsu, with the help of his mom, Yvonne, works on a craft project Monday morning at the Hinsdale Public Library. The craft was part of a Mandarian Storytime program presented by The Language Labs. Children infants to age 4 are invited to the program each Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. through Oct. 16. Registration is required. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Hinsdale trustees are poised to approve a three-year extension to the village’s contract with Republic Waste for the collection and disposal of garbage, landscape waste and recyclables when they meet Tuesday, Sept. 19. “Republic Services has been a longstanding provider of this service, dating back to 2007,” Trustee Neale Byrnes said at the Aug. 15 village board meeting, when trustees first discussed the proposal. The last extension was approved in 2018 and runs through Nov. 1. At that time, the standard form of colle...
In last week’s Page 7 feature on Philip R. Clarke, a photo mistakenly ran of his son, Philip R. Clarke Jr. The correct spelling is “Philip” for both....
TUTHILL TO ACQUIRE TECH COMPANY Tuthill Corp., a privately held business with a 130-year history of industrial manufacturing, has entered into an agreement to acquire EaglePicher Technologies. The transaction is expected to close in 2023, subject to required regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. Jay Tuthill of Hinsdale, company chairman, expressed his excitement. “It’s taken 130 years for Tuthill to reach this place — a place where we are able to join forces with a company like EaglePicher. It’s required the com...
For more than a dozen years, the Eighteenth Amendment made it illegal to manufacture, transport or sell alcohol in this country. In Hinsdale, Prohibition lasted another 68 years. While the ratification of the 21st Amendment in 1933 meant an end to Prohibition nationwide, it allowed state and local authorities to remain dry. Hinsdaleans worried about the sale of liquor in town from the early days. In 1878 an ordinance was passed to prohibit bars and drinking establishments in...
The ramp connecting northbound Interstate 294 to eastbound Ogden Avenue will remain closed through October due to construction work. The Illinois Tollway is investing $8.9 million to reconfigure the Ogden Avenue interchange to improve mobility and traffic flow for local drivers and tollway customers. To accommodate the reconstruction and widening of the Central Tri-State Tollway, the interchange will be reconfigured from a cloverleaf design to a partial cloverleaf design. Ramps will be combined on the east side of I-294 to...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18 Hinsdale Middle School 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: review of summer capital projects and summer programs; updates on SEL Satchel Pulse, science pilot, district office building Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the agenda: 2023-24 budget presentation, safety overview, revised administrative...
One of Dr. Andrew Dingwall's students at Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine came to him in a quandary. A sudden family illness necessitated an immediate return home, but the student didn't know how to arrange for his program absence on such short notice. "My dad said to him, 'Don't worry about it, book your flight. I will handle everything,' " relayed Dingwall's daughter, Caitlin Dingwall, from her conversation with the student at her father's memorial service last...
The DuPage County Health Department reported the first human case of West Nile virus in DuPage County in 2023 earlier this month. A Woodridge resident in their 60s became ill in August, the health department reported Sept. 1. West Nile virus is transmitted to people by infected mosquitoes. About one in five who are infected will develop symptoms such as fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea or rash. Less than 1 percent will develop a serious neurological illness such as encephalitis or meningitis. With...
Making the grade - Hinsdale's Sean Chaudhry came across a box of old photos tucked in a corner of his store's basement. These photos, which date back to 1939, show the parkway being graded on the northwest corner of Garfield Avenue and Fifth Street. 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]....
Dozens of teams took part in this year's 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament supporting The Community House. More than 300 players took part in the event. In the sixth grade girls division, the Inferno Forever team of Ainslie Haunty, Taylor Hwan, April Skinner and Sidney Admire took second place. Colin Hwan, William Moody and Caden Mitchell check out the competition. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
Hinsdale's Trinity Church held a block party Aug. 27 to celebrate the close of summer. The free party included plenty of award-winning barbecue and side dishes from Tommy R's and desserts. With a DJ and a large bouncy house, the event was a perfect way to salute the end of the season. Lane Platts and Charlotte Gragnolati loved running up and sliding down the slide. Please turn to Page 5 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
The HCS Family Services food pantry will move to a new home after Hinsdale trustees Tuesday approved the agency’s plan to take over the old Hinsdale Humane Society facility. The village board voted unanimously in favor of HCS’s relocation from the Memorial Building to the village-owned 22 N. Elm St. under a 10-year, rent-free lease. The one-story, 5,550-square-foot building has sat empty since the Hinsdale Humane Society vacated five years ago. The site was identified a couple of years ago as a solution to space needs for...
