Tricia Montgomery does not want to be portrayed as a hero, but her eleventh-hour rescue of Hinsdale’s End of the Summer Bash has brought praise from local officials.

Hinsdale Township High School District 86 plans to introduce the two veteran educators who will replace outgoing Principal Kevin Pobst at a special “meet and greet” this summer.

Hinsdale’s Center for the Arts lost $50,000 in funding from the village this year and could see more reductions as the Illinois Arts Council faces its own budget cuts.
 

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.

The popular End of Summer Bash — initially dropped this year due to budget cuts by the village of Hinsdale — is back on for Aug. 28 at Burlington Park.

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.

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.
 

Throughout the past few years, Hinsdale Village Board meetings could be easily described as often volatile, contentious and acrimonious.

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.

Every summer children take advantage of nice weather to ride bicycles, and every summer the emergency room receives its share of children with head injuries resulting from bicycle mishaps.

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.