May 09 2012 - Senior Living: 92-year-old stays healthy with active schedule
Aurora resident Geri Hinckley, 92, has a few tips for staying sharp as she sails into her ninth decade. She agrees with conventional wisdom that suggests staying busy and having a positive attitude are keys to maintaining physical and mental health into old age. “I’m a happy person,” she says. But her other secret weapon is stubbornness. “I am so stubborn,” she says with a laugh. “I open my own ... |
March 09 2012 - IMSA, Indian Prairie students make Power Pitch at business conference in Chicago
Could Illinois produce the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates? Winners of the IMSA TALENT Power Pitch competition in Chicago this week showed that their generation has the right stuff to follow in the footsteps of technology innovators like the founders of Apple and Microsoft. In a program at the IBM Innovation Center in downtown Chicago, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora teamed ... |
February 12 2012 - Marconi's Team Creates New Tool for Military's Use
Will Marconi, a 2002 East Aurora High School graduate, served in the Marines for four years and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. He is now the president of Reflex Edge, a business which sells a product not for the average American but for the Marines and Army. His business team members are personal friends who have the shared experience of serving in the Marines. And ... |
February 06 2012 - RTD working to clear snow from some bus stops
AURORA - Snow drifts have been a real problem for the people who use the bus system. If you've been driving around the metro area, you may have noticed giant snow drifts covering some RTD bus stops. Snow also covers the sidewalks around some of the stops, making them impassible. |
February 01 2012 - Kasprzak Alerts East Aurora Residents to Public Hearing on Proposed NFTA Cuts
Bus service from East Aurora to downtown Buffalo could end if proposed cutbacks floated by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority are approved, but citizens have an opportunity to be heard. Mayor Allan Kasprzak reported that the NFTA will hold a public hearing at the Orchard Park campus of Erie Community College in early February. |
January 28 2012 - Man hurt in collision with bus
A Salem man suffered injuries after his car crashed into a school bus in Aurora on Thursday afternoon, officials said today. |
January 13 2012 - Salem man injured after crash with school bus
A Salem man suffered injuries after his car crashed into a school bus in Aurora on Thursday afternoon, officials said today. A 1991 Honda Accord crashed into the back of the First Student, Inc., bus as both vehicles were headed east on Ehlen Road NE near Butteville Road NE, according to Marion County sheriffs officials. The bus driver, Tara Barrell, 34, told officials she had stopped and turned ... |
January 06 2012 - Commission debates Elgin-Aurora bus rapid transit
A newly formed commission met Friday in Elgin to discuss how to implement rapid bus transit along Randall Road between Elgin and Aurora, despite the fact that Kane County officials say they consider that a project decades away. |
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