Author: Joe Kennedy

“I fell in love, I fell in love with the culture that I saw down there, the colors, the landscape, it just felt like coming home,” said The Sundance Gallery owner, Janet Smith-Peterson. I knew then that I wanted to work with Native American people.” Janet Smith-Peterson took her first trip to the Southwest in…

“It was kind of just like a known thing in our family, like oh, everyone loves Halloween,” said Naperville teen, Sam Rovansek. “Sam loves Halloween, my aunt, my mom, my grandma, it’s pretty much a family thing.” Halloween Family Tradition Montini Catholic senior Sam Rovansek comes from a long line of Halloween fans. As a…

It was a night of spooktacular fun at Naper Settlement’s Howlin’ At The Moon on Friday. This is the second year for the museum’s Halloween event which is only for those 21 and older. Live Music And More “There’s tons of live performances, live music, a booze bar with bunch of alcohol, a food truck…

Naperville Central High School graduate Braden Hajer helped create legislation which helps students weed through fact and fiction within the media. Thanks in part to his efforts, this school year, Illinois became the only state in the country that will require all public high schools to have a unit of media literacy in their curriculum.…

Naperville residents had the opportunity to train much like firefighters would, by crawling and climbing through a four-week program hosted by the Naperville Fire Department. It was all part of the Citizen Fire Academy, a program to help the public better understand the job done by local firefighters and paramedics. What Participants Are Tasked With…

“Gather In Gratitude” is the theme of the inaugural concert for NaperVoice, a new choir in Naperville. NaperVoice began in 2021 and is now ready for its debut on Sunday, November 20 at Grace United Methodist Church. The group hopes to live its mission: to sing well and do good. NaperVoice’s Mission “In the very…

National Coffee with a Cop Day was celebrated around town on Wednesday, with the Naperville Police Department deciding to pair it with its Chat with the Chief initiative. Coffee And A Chat Officers could be found inside the Starbucks on Washington St., Dunkin Donuts on 95th St. and McDonalds on N. Route 59 with a…

Starting this school year, every public school in Illinois is mandated to include a unit of study on Asian American history, becoming the first state with that requirement. In light of that, Chinese American Women in Action (CAWA), donated a combined total of 555 books centered around that subject to Naperville School District 203 and…