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Illinois Severe Weather Preparedness Week is Feb. 28 to March 4. The early awareness allows communities to prepare before any spring severe weather events. As part of that preparation, many communities will test their Public Alert System.

Seventeen Elgin Area School District U-46 high school students will be recognized by the board Monday, Feb. 28, with an "Accent on Achievement" for their outstanding achievements as musicians, as well as one elementary student who placed first in the state in his age range for his original musical composition.

Make three grafts of heirloom varieties to take home for planting this spring at the Antique Apple Grafting Seminar on Sunday, March 13, at Garfield Farm Museum in Campton Hills.

Just as suburbanites attitudes toward masks has varied greatly over the past two years, so too did their reactions to the end of the states indoor mask mandate Monday. "Its honestly a relief," said Mandy Miller, a server at Sweet Berry Cafe in South Elgin. "It was getting tough by the end of each day."

The Illinois Department of Public Healths Feb. 25 COVID-19 school outbreak list has eight Kane County schools, the same number of schools on the Feb. 18 list.

Elgin is alerting residents after some drinking water samples exceeded allowable lead levels during a recent test.

Al Watts, community engagement director for Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley, was named as a 2022 Bruce MacDougal Advocacy Scholar by the Preservation Action Foundation on Friday, Feb. 18.

Elgin police respond to Larkin, Edison and Highland avenues Saturday following a report of a person with a weapon.

Two Kane County police officers have named co-winners of the Louis Sphuler Award for outstanding work in 2021.

Judson University and the Technology and Manufacturing Association have begun an exclusive partnership to offer a new Manufacturing Leadership Program at Judsons Elgin, Illinois campus.