The Hinsdale Central High School Mock Trial team began working on law theory, closing arguments, cross examinations and other aspects of law in October, just about when the professional baseball season ended.

On Aug. 29, 2005, a few months after Dick Flesher retired as a high school teacher, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region. Watching the relief efforts, Flesher said he knew he had to do something.

First time was the charm for the Clarendon Hills Middle School Symphonic Band, which earned top honors at the Illinois Superstate Concert Band Festival last weekend.

Lisa Armonda was elected to the Community Consolidated School District 181 Board of Education in 2005 and has served a president of the board since 2007.

Check out who made the 2008-09 honor roll at Hinsdale Middle School.

Hinsdale Township High School District 86 officials will begin preparing a timeline to install synthetic turf after learning $4 million in bonds could be used for the project.

Troy Whalen, assistant superintendent of business with Joliet Public School District 86, has been hired as the assistant superintendent for business with Community Consolidated School District 181.
 

Hinsdale Township High School District 86 is among 81 school districts in Illinois to be named a Bright Red Apple Award winner in 2009 by the educational research firm School Search.

Kevin Pobst, principal at Hinsdale Central High School, will take over as principal at Naperville North High School after finishing out the 2008-09 academic year, according to Hinsdale Township High School District 86 officials.

Few people spoke out against a referendum for Community Consolidated School District 180 in Burr Ridge after it was unanimously proposed in November.

Students from Community Consolidated School District 181 reached out this holiday season, participating in a variety of activities to help the needy.

A substitute teacher who taught in Downers Grove and Hinsdale was sentenced to 20 days in prison Monday for touching children.

Cadet Shannon Marcolini, a 10th-grader at Howe Military School from Clarendon Hills, was named to the superintendent’s list for the second six-week grading period of the 2007-08 school year. Shannon received this special award by attaining at least a 3.5 B+ average in her studies.

Twenty-nine area residents were named to the spring-semester dean’s list at Benedictine University, Lisle.

When it comes to the overcrowding issue at Clarendon Hills Middle School, staff members want a solution — now.