“Then catch the moments as they fly, And use them as ye ought, Believe me, happiness is shy, And comes not aye when sought.” From “A Bottle and Friend”
Police Seize AR-15 Assault Rifle and Cannabis in Raid On Jan. 31, at approximately 10 a.m., investigators of the Evanston Police Department's N.E.T. Unit (Narcotics & Gang Crimes) and members of the N.I.P.A.S. Emergency Services Team executed a search warrant at 1710 Monroe St.
ETHS Celebrates Industry Certification Of Its Automotive Technology Program A $100,000 gift over four years from the Owen L. Coon Foundation, plus a great deal of work by the ETHS faculty and administration, have resulted in the high school’s receiving accreditation as an Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) school through the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF).
School District 202 CFO Proposes $8 Million in Bonds for Basic Capital Projects District 202 should issue $4 million in bonds for capital improvements in 2012, and again in 2014, Chief Financial Officer William Stafford told the Board at its most recent Finance Committee meeting, just in order to keep up with building maintenance needs.
New Owners of Evanston Plaza Meet with Local Business Association "What we see as an opportunity here is a dense urban population. [We look at] the amount of vacancy [in the plaza as] a little bit of a blank slate," said Mr. Inbinder, a principal of Bonnie Investment, which purchased the foreclosed property from Bank of America a few weeks ago.
Two Roadway Leftovers: One Pass, One Fail A proposal seeking to lower the speed limit on the stretch of Oakton Street between Ridge and Dodge avenue from 30 to 20 miles per hour failed narrowly. An ordinance adding a $100 fee for "no parking" signs reserving space for moving vans, however, passed easily.
Yellow Line May Stop at Asbury A below-street-level station at Asbury Avenue is the preferred site for an Evanston stop on the CTA Yellow Line, said Tom Coleman, senior planner at Parsons Brinckerhoff, at a meeting at the Levy Center on Jan. 24.
“Citizens for a Better Evanston” (C4BE), a coalition of District 65 parents, educators, residents, community leaders and elected officials, has been formed to support District 65’s referendum on the March 20 ballot. The referendum asks voters to approve funding for a new K-5 school, additional classrooms and upgrades to Haven and Nichols middle schools and upgrades to King Lab and Bessie Rhodes magnet schools at a total cost of $48.2 million.
“This referendum, we all believe, is very forward thinking,” said Susan Hope Engel. “It answers several key issues that our District has been grappling with for a long time. Our schools need space. We need 21st Century technology. Several of our elementary schools are at capacity, Haven and Nichols are full and we are still busing hundreds of children out of their community, despite the District’s strategic commitment to neighborhood schools.”
Despite the first major snowstorm of the season, hundreds of people from across Evanston and the District 65 schools came out to support Foundation 65’s "My 65 Benefit" on Jan. 20 at the Hilton Orrington hotel. Foundation 65 raised more than $90,000, exceeding fund-raising goals and allowing...
The First Amendment won big among School District 65 seventh-graders. The Fourth Amendment, proscribing certain searches and seizures, and the Eighth Amendment, with its ban of cruel and unusual punishment, gathered a few admirers, but freedoms of religions, press, assembly, speech and petition won...
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, the sixth annual Diverse Evanston Walks United was held on Jan. 16 at the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston. The event, a community-wide celebration of peace, diversity, unity, leadership and service, engages young people from throughout Evanston.
