ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL — Calling it a “significant step,” the developers of a 301-unit mixed-use community recently broke ground on the project at the southeast corner of Arlington Heights and Algonquin roads. Bradford Allen Development Company, part of a national real estate firm, is teaming up with partner Moceri+Roszak on the project. As Patch reported last year, the development is […]

MARBLEHEAD, MA — As Marblehead teachers, custodians and other union professional staff entered their sixth week working without a contract and their second week since implementing “work-to-rule” conditions, the latest bargaining session with the School Committee left the sides “very far apart on wages still” as part of a new deal. Marblehead School Committee member Sarah Fox issued a statement […]

FREEHOLD, NJ — The winning projects for Freehold Borough’s 2024 Participatory Budgeting contest were announced at a Borough Council meeting on Monday night. Each year, Freehold Borough residents or business owners 14 years old or older are eligible to submit their own project idea that meets local needs in the Borough. Once voting ends and the winning project is determined, […]

HINSDALE, IL – A law firm that serves many suburban school systems said last month that Hinsdale High School District 86 was “unreasonably difficult” to serve. In response to Patch’s public records request, District 86 on Monday released Robbins Schwartz’s Sept. 9 letter informing the district that it was ending its relationship. The district had previously withheld the letter from […]

CRESTWOOD, IL — Apparently the Lyric Theatre in Blue Island is just brimming with ghosts and paranormal investigator Neal Gibbons has spent the past several weeks measuring fluctuations in electromagnetic fields and recording electronic voice phenomena in the century-old building. On Halloween night, Oct. 31, Gibbons, who owns and operates the ghost tour company Graveside Paranormal, will showcase his evidence […]

PORTSMOUTH, RI — The St. John’s Lodge Food Bank of Portsmouth has changed its name to Aquidneck Food Pantry. Food pantry President Anne Crittenden said the new name more closely reflects the mission and service area of the organization. Click Here: men football kit “With our new name, we hope to clarify who we are, what we do as an […]

CARY, IL — Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found along the Metra tracks in Cary Sunday night. The Cary Police Department was called to the scene of the incident near Route 14 and Cary-Algonquin Road at about 7:45 p.m., Scott Naydenoff, deputy of support services for the Cary Police Department, told Patch. An employee […]

ELMHURST, IL – The city of Elmhurst estimates it received 30,000 emails last month about a group’s controversial plan to show a film critical of the Israeli government. Opponents of the film labeled it antisemitic. In September, Patch wrote a story about the dispute. In an email to Patch on Friday, city spokeswoman Kassondra Schref said the emails were similar […]