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Mazda3 five-door packs utility, fun in compact shell
As I am currently in the independent, no-kid phase of my life, I lean toward coupes or small sedans in terms of personal preference. But the 2008 Mazda3 Five-Door gave me a new perspective on the wagony, hatchbacky segment.
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Spring salads
As the weather warms up our thoughts turn to outdoor entertaining and fresh foods and salads. Need to update your recipe files? Help is just a click away. Tons of quick videos demonstrating cooking techniques and an extensive archive of recipes and other exclusively culinary content.
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• (Don't) be our guest
• Cougars make pitch for earlier liquor sales
• More Kane potholes scheduled to be filled
• Foster focusing on economic issues
• Canadian National exec to speak to area businessmen
• Valley Briefing
• Guilty plea in shooting near youth football game
• Kane County judge to hear Hall DUI case
• Schools work to keep it sober on prom night
• Barsanti: E-mail for cops
• Students learn to build healthy lunch
• Batavia school honored for reading program
• Sheriff: New Kane jail on time, budget
• 'Small' start to rental help program

• Bulldogs settle for second place, Vikings third Western Sun
• Chasing babies around home
• Rosary softball clinches SCC championship
• Headliners don't disappoint
• Geneva, Batavia, Kaneland finish 1-2-3
• Geneva close to perfect in topping arch rival
Bobcats, Rising Stars follow different paths Deerfield cuts Giants down to size Hawks' Hampton decides on DePaul Illiana's Oppenhuis grounds Eagles Richmond trying to avoid the limelight

religion calendar

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• Look! Up in the sky!
• A 'Little Vaudeville' goes a long way
• St. Mark's Church ready to celebrate building's history
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• Wine and dine
• Event gives girls free prom dresses
• Batavia High strings pay homage to jazz greats

Area home sales plummet
The ongoing credit crunch and a softening economy led to double-digit declines in first-quarter home sales in the area and lower prices being paid for most of them, according to the Illinois Association of Realtors' latest report. Here are first-quarter 2008-to-2007 comparisons for the Elgin area of sales and median price (a typical market price where half the homes sold for more, half sold for less):



• Homebrew Shop
• FBI discloses top Internet ripoffs of 2007
• business briefs
• Regole's Harvest Shoppe
• business briefs
• Chew on this: Mars to buy Wm. Wrigley for $23 billion
• Jobless rates jump for Valley workers
• CPR (Cell Phone Repair)
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Noble Fool addresses digital age relationships
Noble Fool Theatricals will stage I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles through July 19. Artistic director John Gawlik said the show runs the relationship gamut. "It is all about from first dates to marriage and through old age and how men and women interact with each other," Gawlik said. "There are some wonderful pieces in there that are really heartfelt."



• Getting the bugs out
• Geneva's 'Indiana Jones' stars in mystery dinner
• Arts Hall of Fame Inducts 7
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• Here and Now
• Glee Club to perform 'Promise of Song'
• Musical studies love affair's life span
• Here and Now