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Thinking spring? Think rain gardens this year
Believe it or not, spring is not so far away. It's time to start thinking about gardening, and it's really time we started planting rain gardens. Our eco-system depends on it.
• Plan: Your rain garden
• Show: Old House New House
• Little bit: City and country
• Garden: Yellow is hot
• Condos: City values skid
• Really hot: Old stoves
• Find: Foreclosures
Weather alert
Winter Storm Warning
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warming in effect from 9 p.m. Monday to noon Wednesday with accumulations of between 8 to 13 inches and near blizzard conditions expected through Wednesday morning.
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HELP FOR HAITIANS
Residents are reaching out
The Haiti earthquake tragedy has hit home for many in the suburbs as family and friends await for word of loved ones. The disaster also has drawn out the generosity of residents across the area. Let us hear your story or what you are doing to help by clicking
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• Local help for Haitians
• Volunteers answer the call
• Yorkville couple worries for family
• STC school host fundraiser
• JCA grad teaches in Haiti
• Valley View drive to help children
• Naper family gives Haitian kids a home
• Photos: Mission of love
• State opens its arms to Haitians
• Photos: Evacuees arrive in Chicago
Promise to mom can wait
Where in the world is Matt Miller? Good question. For the time being, he's back home in Aurora, doing work as an athletic trainer and organizing a summer basketball camp at the Fox Valley Park District's Eola Center. Usually, though, it's wise to have an atlas and a globe handy to find him. In the nine years since he earned Beacon-News All-Area Basketball honors as a senior point guard for coach David Saurbaugh at Waubonsie Valley High School, Miller has been here, there and, well, darn near everywhere. England, Spain, Germany, Bosnia, Romania, Ethiopia and Rwanda are just some of the stamps on the well-worn passports of this professional player.
Regionals tough act to follow
Thursday night's Glenbard West Sectional will be packed with Naperville-area teams.
That's because Naperville North and Neuqua Valley advanced and Waubonsie-Metea Co-op automatically qualified three girls to compete as individuals.
'A young lady's dream'
Lanshi Xia of Naperville prepares for her performance of the Kunqu opera piece "Peony Pavilion," a masterpiece of Chinese literature that was written in 1598, during the Skyland Beijing Opera Amateurs Festival held at North Central College's Wentz Concert Hall in Naperville.
• Social networking for the furry set
• Hit for teacher
• Horoscopes
• Animal aid
• Pets of the week
• Good Causes
Ali chooses job over chance to marry Jake
Paige Wiser: Scary but true: While many companies offer sick leave, maternity leave
and paternity leave, there is still no official recognition for
reality-show leave. Our bachelor Jake learned this the hard way when
Ali, one of the final four, told him she'd been gone too long and had
to choose between him and her job.
• Travolta stars in 'From Paris with Love'
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• Larry Miller to premier new show at Copley
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