Could it be true: a talk to first-graders about public relations? That is what Piper Elementary School teacher Jan Hebda thought she was bringing her students to last month.

High demand for flu vaccines has cleaned out the Berwyn Health Department’s stock for children — and the adult stock is quickly dwindling.

Students from all over Berwyn used their feet as their transportation to school on a chilly and sunny autumn morning Oct. 7 for International Walk to School Day.

Check out who made the 2008-09 fourth quarter honor roll at St. Odilo School.

Check out the top student achievement published in the June 10 Life Newspapers.

A strange phenomenon is occurring in Megan Kissner’s first-grade classroom at Irving Elementary School.

Check who made the 2008-09 Morton West High School honor roll.

Low test scores, overcrowding and dwindling financial resources are a few of the challenges the new J. Sterling Morton West High School principal must be able to handle, parents told district staff April 1.

When Irving School Principal Dan Lane was told he had been awarded the Pav YMCA’s annual Teeter Award, he did not believe the news.

Check out who made the honor roll at Nazareth Academy, St. Leonard and Edison schools.

Check who made the 2008-09 second quarter honor roll at Lincoln Middle School

Check out who made the first 2008-09 first semester honor roll at Morton West High School.

Residents signed up for Berwyn’s Citizen’s Police Academy begin their 12-week course Wednesday.

1 Foreclosure crisis hits Berwyn, big time

More than 900 properties in Berwyn were in foreclosure by the end of 2008. It was an unprecedented percentage of foreclosed-on buildings, most of which were residential properties. More than 5 percent of the “City of Homes” housing stock was in foreclosure, in part because of adjustable-rate mortgages, mass layoffs from small and mega businesses, and skyrocketing prices on gasoline and consumer products.

Classes are set to resume Monday, Jan. 5, for students, administrators and staff in Morton J. Sterling School District 201 after a two-week winter break.