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Local Singer Returns to his Roots
Singer Sean Heffernan grew up in Arlington Heights, where he readily admits that he spent his formative years playing in and around Pioneer Park. His antics gave him ample fodder for an original song, called Pioneer Park, which last year won the first songwriting...
Metropolis Extends Addams Family After Sold-Out Run
After an unprecedented sold-out run of The Addams Family: The Musical, officials at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre added one more show. Closing night now takes place at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8. Artistic Director Brendan Ragan points to several reasons for its...
Award-Winning Art Teacher Debuts Augmented Reality Children’s Book
Tricia Fugelstad spent more than 30 years at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, as an award winning art teacher known for integrating technology into her art lessons. She has been recognized by the National Art Education Association, the Illinois Art...
Nationally Ranked Chess Player at Fremd Adds Author to His Titles
Aditya Gupta of Rolling Meadows is an Illinois Junior Chess Champion and a Chess National Master. Just this year, he was one of five students chosen nationally to receive the Chess Scholar Award from the U.S. Chess Federation. Yet, it's not the awards that are driving...
Ukrainian Student Adapts to Saint Viator High School Through Hockey
Coming from the city of Kalush, in western Ukraine, Vitalii Strutynskyi and his family fled to the Czech Republic first, where they assembled documents to come to this country. When he arrived at Saint Viator last year, he says his biggest barrier was the language....
Local 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run Returns to Raise Money for Area Families
Three Catholic parishes in Arlington Heights are collaborating to host a 5K/1-Mile Fun Run/Walk on Saturday to benefit the St. Vincent de Paul Society and outreach ministry at each of the churches. Our Lady of the Wayside, St. James and St. Edna's -- whose combined...
Arlington Heights Native Remembered on 9/11
Mary Lenz Wieman is being remembered today, 22 years after she died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11. The Arlington Heights native, who attended Our Lady of the Wayside School, Sacred Heart of Mary High School in Rolling Meadows and the...
Hersey’s 50 Year Reunion Sparks Nostalgia
More than 100 members of Hersey's class of 1973 descended on the school last month and their thoughts turned to a simpler time. When they began as freshmen the school had been open only one year and much of the neighborhoods surrounding it was still farmland. For...
This Hoffman Estates Teacher Draws Tom Brady’s Interest
Kerri Largo teaches a business incubator class at Hoffman Estates High School and she also serves as chair of the business education department. Yet, even she admits she didn't know what an NFT was until two years ago when she learned about them from her students....
Arlington Heights Police Department Offers Pathway to Career in Law Enforcement
Arlington Heights Police Chief Nick Pecora knew he wanted to pursue a career in law enforcement as far back as his days at Rolling Meadows High School, but the closest he could experience it was after graduation. In 1982, at the age of 19, he was hired as a public...