Asphalt Plant Near Glenview Not Happening

Builders Asphalt dropped plans to build an asphalt plant and concrete recycling facility on the Glenview-Northbrook border near Shermer and Old Willow roads citing pushback from community members.

Asphalt Plant? We’ll See...

Glenview village officials are closely watching a proposal to build an asphalt plant and concrete recycling facility in Northbrook on Glenview’s northern border.

Bus Route Added At Springman

As school begins this week, Glenview Elementary Dist. 34 will need one more bus than originally budgeted for, costing the district an additional $40,000 to serve Springman Middle School students.

State Steps In On Waukegan Road Work

Drivers should expect traffic on Waukegan Road to get worse before it gets better, as the Illinois Dept. of Transportation starts road resurfacing this week.

Trip To Gulf Coast A True Bonding Experience

While Hurricane Katrina’s Gulf Coast assault five years ago may have faded from some minds, a group of high schoolers remembered and spent their summer rebuilding in Mississippi.

Veteran Serving Peers With Prayer

Paul Niskanen of Glenview recently received the Outstanding Chaplains Cross at an American Legion convention in Springfield.

Library Nears Next Chapter

The Glenview Public Library will close its doors on Sunday, Sept. 5 to move into its newly constructed 85,000 sq. ft., $27.5 million building next door.

Wagner Windmill Up And Running

Wind power has been touted as the next big thing in alternative energy but a 100-year-old windmill erected at Wagner Farm gives credibility to the adage,  “everything old is new again.”

Glenbrook Grad Wakes Up After Car Collision

“Emily came back to us,” wrote Emily Kaskie’s father Mike on a medical blog Monday.

Village Escapes

Heavy storms brought five inches of rain to Glenview on Saturday, July 24. Village officials said minor flooding was reported in four neighborhoods.

Glenview’s ‘Music Man’

Music is the very essence of Kenneth A. Bartosz’s soul.

Sunset Village Welcomes Glenview Command

Sunset Village residents cheered after Glenview trustees adopted final passage of the village’s first manufactured home community ordinance at their Tuesday, July 20 board meeting.

Revenues Outpace Spending In H.S. Budget

Glenbrook High School Dist. 225 board members took their first look at the district’s 2010-2011 tentative budget and heard a wrap up on the 2009-2010 budget at their Monday, July 12 meeting.

Kraft Employees Moving To Northbrook?

Kraft Foods is leaving Glenview, but might not go far.

Glenview Working To Control Water Main Break

A sewer main serving a private sanitary system in the Sunset Village manufactured home community in Glenview broke yesterday (Monday) afternoon near Willow and Waukegan roads.

Sunset Village Ordinance In Works

A proposed ordinance expected to be considered by trustees at last night’s (Tuesday) village board meeting, seeks to steer regulation of Sunset Village mobile home park, and any other future manufactured home community, to Glenview’s development department.

John T. O’Connell, Jr.: ‘Devoted Supporter Of All Things Legion’

A Funeral Mass was celebrated for John T. O’Connell, Jr. of Glenview yesterday (Tuesday) with military honors. He was laid to rest at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines.

With Positives Come Negatives In Dist. 34 Report

“We had a great year and a horrible year,” said Glenview Elementary School Dist. 34 Board President Beth Primer discussing Supt. Gerald Hill’s state of the district report last week.

Gazebo Back In Play

Besides a putter, a wedge and a good golf bag, Glenview Park Dist. officials know what’s essential for a good round of golf: a gazebo.

Fresh Approach

The majority of donations to food pantries are usually canned goods and other non-perishables. Groups from Glenbrook South High School (GBS) and Pleasant Ridge School had the idea to give something fresher to the Northfield Township Food Pantry.

Enrollment Concerns Linger

Glenview Elementary School Dist. 34 officials say they have enough classroom space to teach children for now but are concerned with enrollment projections for the future.