This year’s comeback of the Winnetka Public Schools’ dance marathon was twice as nice. After pausing the event in 2021 and 2022, students brought it back this year and doubled the amount raised for Lurie Children’s Hospital with the March 3 event. The students collected nearly $85,000 for the hospital. “I am so proud of […]
Editor’s Note: After an eight hour manhunt, the alleged mass shooter was apprehended Monday evening in Lake Forest. Law enforcement is still managing the site, and numerous businesses and roads are closed in Highland Park. A seventh fatality, age unknown, was confirmed Tuesday afternoon. A shooter is still at large following a mass shooting in […]
Solar energy is coming to New Trier High School. At its regular meeting on Monday, May 16, the school’s board of education unanimously approved plans to install solar panels at the Northfield campus as part of a series of upcoming facilities projects set to conclude in the summer of 2023. Associate Superintendent Chris Johnson said […]
Biographies are marketed as enlightening accounts of influential and captivating people. But when Sarah Churchwell, a New Trier High School alumna, read a biography to learn more about the tragic death of icon Marilyn Monroe, she did not feel enlightened. So she read another one. And another one. Each one told a different story, and […]
Seeing was believing when the community got a look at the rehabilitated Woman’s Club of Wilmette in October. Six-plus years after the historic building at 930 Greenleaf Ave. burned nearly to the ground, club leadership opened the doors for a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by the Wilmette-Kenilworth Chamber of Commerce. “Congrats to the members who worked […]
