Recent rainy weather may be conducive to making gardens and lawns grow, but it is making havoc with public swimming pools serving customers.

Students at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South high schools who enroll in drivers education will have to shell out $350 to take the course starting in the 2010-11 school year.
 

A group of 46 volunteers from the Hinsdale and Burr Ridge recently made their way through Costa Rican communities, providing medical assistance, performing construction services and ministering.

Hinsdale Central High School and Hinsdale South High School both have been named to the “Newsweek” magazine’s annual list of top public schools nationwide.

The Community Unit School District 201 Board of Education decided it would release any personal e-mails related to a recent Freedom of Information Act request after discussing the issue at a special meeting held Thursday, June 11.

It took Jolene Albaugh more than 30 years to rise from a receptionist at a physician’s office to director of surgical services at Bolingbrook Adventist Hospital.

Ann and Bill Crilly were not sure they would drive 150 miles from Wyocena, Wis., to attend Sunday’s 20th Annual Hinsdale Humane Society Pet Walk.

At about 9 a.m. Wednesday, Hinsdale Police Department dispatchers sent out a transmission stating Hinsdale Central High School reported a vehicle on fire in front of the building.
 

One of the first things Hinsdale Village President Tom Cauley did Thursday, June 11, was to e-mail long-time friend Kirk Dillard to congratulate him on his plans to run for governor in 2010.

Community Unit School District 201 officials have finally released Superintendent Steven Baule’s contract, revealing he received a series of salary increases, including one that was not documented properly.

One out of every four motor vehicle crashes is the result of driver distractions ad inattentive driving, according to DuPage County Sheriff John Zaruba.

Robert A. Pawlak, 19, a former Hinsdale South High School student, died after plunging seven stories to his death in an Ames, Iowa apartment elevator shaft last weekend.

Adventist Hinsdale Hospital will conduct a free program on ovarian cancer awareness and treatment from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 10, at the Hinsdale Community House, 415 W. State St., Hinsdale.

For the last five years, Hinsdale resident Madeline LoPresti has found a way to wedge volunteering at the Hinsdale Humane Society into her busy schedule, which includes working as an insurance agent and raising five children.

Had Lindsay Wallace been alive and living in the Hinsdale area during the Civil War, she said she would have fared all right, except for one thing.