Barb Pondelick has no problem staying busy during the summer.
While running her family’s store at Theis Farm II, 6N953 County Line Road in Maple Park, she sneaks into the fields in between customers to get planting done for the upcoming farmers markets.
The list of items Theis Farm offers continues
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SPRINGFIELD – A proposal that revamps sex education in Illinois public schools to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases has cleared the sta
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The Illinois Virtual Charter School at Fox River Valley will be delayed for a year if Gov. Pat Quinn signs into law a moratorium on charter schools like it.
On Tuesday, the Il
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STERLING – A local doctor accused of illegally dispensing drugs that led to the deaths of at least 3 people hired a physician to issue prescriptions when he was absent, fede
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DeKALB – Tyler Elementary School was placed on lockdown Tuesday as DeKalb police responded to a burglary call in the area that required officers to draw their weapons.DeKalb S
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The Illinois Virtual Charter School at Fox River Valley will be delayed for a year if Gov. Pat Quinn signs into law a moratorium on charter schools like it.
On Tuesday, the Il
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DeKALB – The DeKalb school board is beginning to consider how to spend its $21 million construction grant.
On Tuesday, the board heard a presentation that would use $11.4 mil
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SPRINGFIELD – A groundbreaking deal to regulate high-volume oil and gas drilling in Illinois cleared a top House committee Tuesday, setting up a floor vote on a measure that s
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LONDON – Two U.K. government officials say a brutal attack that left one man dead near a London military barracks appears to have been motivated by radical Islam.Two men appar
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The criminal justice system should have done a better job protecting the public from Benjamin Black.According to police reports, Black, 28, of Sycamore caused a chain-reaction
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Illinois politicians aren’t ready for redistricting reform.That was easy to tell by the gerrymandered state House, Senate, and congressional maps drawn by politicians after th
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Mike Mercado trembled with nervousness in the batter’s box.
The Hiawatha junior had faced Hinckley-Big Rock with the bases loaded earlier this season and wanted a shot at red
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Brian Urlacher will retire as a Bear.Urlacher announced his retirement from the NFL on Wednesday rather than signing with another team, which had been his initial goal. He pla
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CHICAGO – Everything started so well.
Blackhawks fans filled the United Center before the series opener against the Detroit Red Wings and were going wild (fun wild, not Minnes
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My asparagus convalescence – from a childhood spent eating the mushy, canned stuff – began late in my adolescence, when my mother boiled fresh spears, then napped them with ho
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I think I would have liked Annie Glidden if she were alive today. I hope she would have liked me.
I learned a bit more about her this weekend touring the Joseph F. Glidden Hom
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Congratulations to all of DeKalb County’s new high school graduates.For me, graduating from high school meant freedom. Adults couldn’t just tell me what to do anymore – at lea
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Note to readers: Information in Police Reports is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and city police departments. Individuals listed who have been charged with a
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Note to readers: Information in the Police Reports is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and city police departments. Individuals listed who have been charged wi
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Barb Pondelick has no problem staying busy during the summer.
While running her family’s store at Theis Farm II, 6N953 County Line Road in Maple Park, she sneaks into the fiel
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The bathroom is one of the humblest and undoubtedly hardworking rooms in the house. But just because the space is utilitarian, doesn’t mean it should be lacking in style.
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