Home safety gear spans detectors to motion sensors
A look at the market for home security devices including smoke and carbon monoxide detectors perimeter alarms and motion sensors. The guide highlights options for the security conscious home with emphasis on reliability and protection.
Hip Hip HIPPY: shaping minds with early home instruction
The Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters HIPPY and related efforts aim to reach families early and involve parents in educating children at home. Dimensions highlights this approach as a way to foster literacy and learning with simple daily activities.
Estate Planning 101 A Complete Look at Key Topics
A concise guide covers wills living trusts and probate avoidance. It explains how differs among instruments roles of executors and trustees and steps to minimize taxes and court involvement. Readers gain a practical overview of choosing strategies for future security.
Star endorses candidates in area races for Congress
The Star unveils its endorsements for the November 8 election with choices in local U S Congress contests. Myra Guindon contributes a Political Bytes column offering a different perspective on the political landscape.
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the Star
U.S. Congress
Myra Guindon
Coming Next Sunday TV Close Up Special Program Booklet
A newspaper teaser previews Our special TV Close Up airing next Sunday. It promotes a compact booklet containing all of November's program listings in one place.
Matteson weighs resident priority for senior housing complex
Matteson trustees scrutinize a $7 million 119 unit six story senior housing plan adjacent to Sam's Club and Wal Mart, proposed by Catholic Charities Housing Development Corp. The Plan Commission backed the Lawrence Manor project on three acres, but officials seek guarantees that Matteson residents receive priority and worry about major zoning concessions: lot size parking and unit square footage reductions.
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Matteson Village Board
Matteson
Catholic Charities Housing Development Corp
Lawrence Manor
Southwick Drive
Sam’s Club
Wal-Mart Discount Cities
Dale Graham
Graham
Alan Saunders
Planning Partnership
Catholic Charities
Saunders
Wennilund denies making tax request
State Rep. Larry Wennlund of New Lenox denies sending a letter to the Will County Tax Assessor to seek a third sanctuary designation to cut his property taxes. He says he only signed to back a neighbor’s wildlife habitat claim and that his opponent Lois Mayer uses the charge for political gain.
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Larry Wennlund
New Lenox
Will County
Wennlund
Lois Mayer
Mayer
Randall Schommer
Schommer
Residents envision future during RAP 2000 town hall
About 300 residents attended a six site Town Hall Meeting broadcast on Channel 56 shaping Regional Action Project 2000. Attendees discussed boosting jobs, parks, arts centers and teen activities as part of a grassroots plan with officials, business leaders and civic groups.
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Channel
Good grades on the rise at Rich High School District 227
Superintendent DuWayne Carnes presented six year results of the Target for Achievement program begun in 1988 89 showing richer grade distribution and GPA gains. He noted graduates with a 2.0 GPA or above rose about 6 percent from baseline and over 76 percent of last year’s graduates had GPAs above 2.0.
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DuWayne Carnes
Rich Township High School
Board of Education
Carnes
Rich ton Park and Frankfort Park District win state bike path grants
Richton Park receives 62100 to build 1.5 miles of 10 foot asphalt path linking Glaeser Park Rich South High School and Sauk School with the Old Plank Trail. Frankfort Park District gets 20400 for a half mile path connecting Main Park to the trail.
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Springfield
Richton Park
Frankfort Park
Jim Edgar
Glaeser Park
Rich South High School
Sauk School
Edgar
Poplar Avenue
Cicero Avenue
Governors Highway
Frankfort Park District
Frankfort
Main Park
Illinois Department of Conservation
Brent Manning
Manning
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Diane Ross
Monster In
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