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.
 

Between sundown June 10 and daybreak June 11, 13 cars and garages were burglarized in Darien, with property loss estimated at more than $5,000.

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 Woodridge Community Pantry is accepting registration for “A Job For Me,” an outreach program to prepare high school students and adults seeking employment and to provide comprehensive job-seeking training.

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.

For the second year in a row, Downers Grove North High School student Mandy Winslow participated in the Abraham Lincoln Book Award.
But this year, she read every book in the selection.

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.

Lace School Principal Martin Casey is a man of his word, and because of it, he has become a man with much less hair on his head.

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.