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Summit Hill Foudation Earns Top Spot with Dominick's

By Rachel Bucich | Feb. 6 at 4:49 p.m.

Tina Gnade, a first-grade teacher from Dr. Julian Rogus School, along with several Summit Hill 161 students presented a thank you banner to the store … Read more ›

Pictured left to right: Amy Meacham (SHEF Vice President), Rachel Bucich (SHEF President), and Barb Rains (Interim Superintendent, SHSD 161).
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Summit Hill Foundation Thanks District Community $53,000 Back to the Classrooms

By Rachel Bucich | Oct. 11, 2011 at 1:26 p.m.

The Summit Hill Educational Foundation (SHEF) would like to thank the entire District 161 community for your continued support throughout our fifth year in existence … Read more ›

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Midwest Brewers Fest – August 27th!

By Heather Heavens | July 19, 2011 at 11:20 a.m.

On August 27, 2011 Plainfield will host it's First Annual Midwest Brewers Fest at the Plainfield Electric Park!!! The fest was organized by a group … Read more ›

Dairy man Norb Weber of Joliet was family’s ‘life force’

June 27, 2011 at 1:18 p.m.

The Herald-News reports: Norbert, “Norbie” Weber, 79, of Joliet, the last survivor of the original Weber Dairy family, was humorous and giving on the outside … Read more ›

Steve Nedzel speaks to the audience at a band concert in March, 2011 at Lincoln Way West High School. (Burns Photography photo)

Lincoln-Way West band director dies at age 32

June 22, 2011 at 9:06 p.m.

The band at Lincoln-Way West High School marched Monday without director Steve Nedzel, the first time a rehearsal has taken place without him since the … Read more ›