David Petesch

The fire department was dispatched at 10:43 p.m. for a river rescue, with reports of bystanders hearing screams coming from the river.

St. Charles City Council members approved liquor licenses for two highly anticipated developments at their May 5 meeting.

St. Charles North High School senior Finn Mulcahy earned a perfect 36 on the ACT, a rare achievement reached by less than 0.2% of test-takers each year.

St. Charles cycling shop The Bike Rack will host its 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday, May 17, and their 13th annual “Everybody Rides” event and party in the park on Sunday.

St. Charles City Clerk-elect Susan Hanson will not be sworn in, despite running unopposed in April, as she has since moved outside of the city.

The $3.2 million project will increase the warehouse’s capacity from 43,000-square-feet to 76,000-square-feet, and is expected to take about five months to complete.

For many students in the Transition Program, paraprofessionals Dahlquist and Harding provide the final measures of support before the students set out on their own.

Batavia is among over 100 municipalities in Illinois that have decided to impose a local grocery tax next year in response to the state’s decision last spring to eliminate the tax after 2025.

St. Charles art program sees full-circle of art teachers, thanks to educators like Stephanie Dodd.

Unlike K-12 classroom teachers, LaTart also works with a wide age-range of students, and he doesn’t like to use age as a metric for responsibility.

Three newly elected aldermen, and nine reelected city officials, including the mayor, clerk and seven aldermen, were sworn in at the May 5, 2025, City Council meeting in Batavia City Hall, 100 N. Island Ave.

Newly elected St. Charles officials were sworn in and held their first City Council meeting on Monday, May 5, 2025.

The 23rd annual Tyler Brett Caruso Memorial Concert will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21, at Lincoln Park between Fourth and Fifth streets downtown.

The Charlemagne Award, established in 1968, is a lifetime achievement award given annually to one community member with a distinguished history of service to the city of St. Charles.

Newly elected Board Member and Sugar Grove resident Scott Stalcup was sworn in at the April 28 School Board meeting.