Barbara Dargis

Healthy or not, local culinary instructor finds sweet success with ‘Baking With Vegetables’ cookbook

March 12, 2024 at 12:13 p.m.

Lots of bakers make chocolate brownies. Few include cauliflower. But a brownie recipe developed by a Moraine Valley Community College instructor features the vegetable, and it's not the only one....

Twin sisters at Lincoln-Way West are heading to the Naval Academy — for a weeklong STEM program

May 26, 2019 at 2:45 p.m.

When other high schoolers are sleeping in or planning the freedoms of long summer days, two Lincoln-Way West High School freshmen will begin the day with physical training and end...

New student-led engineering conference at Stagg draws hundreds from schools throughout Chicago area

May 22, 2019 at 5:17 a.m.

An engineering conference at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in Palos Heights drew students from throughout the Chicago area in numbers that surprised even its organizers. That's because it was...

Scholarship award puts Moraine Valley engineering student one step closer to Mars

May 22, 2019 at 5:12 a.m.

If Moraine Valley Community College student Salam Mulhem suggests she has plans to land on Mars as a career goal, she can be taken literally. Mulhem, of Oak Lawn, has...

New Lenox native, 23, bests worldwide competition with design for alarm for hearing impaired

May 22, 2019 at 5:10 a.m.

New Lenox native Hannah Ferrill was generating ideas for a project for a design class at Purdue University when she remembered a conversation in which her grandmother worried about missing...

Susan Fulcher, the Matteson Area Public Library's school liaison, shows two of her puppets she uses in programs at the library and area classrooms. Her puppetry and that of some local students is featured at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in Connecticut.

Matteson library assistant, students help put African American puppetry on national stage

May 22, 2019 at 5:06 a.m.

Susan Fulcher started a puppetry program as the Matteson Public Library’s liaison to the village’s schools initially to engage and entertain young students. But that effort has garnered national attention...

South Will County women’s group raises more than $16,000 for charity in less than 2 years

May 22, 2019 at 4:54 a.m.

In less than two years of existence, a local group has raised more than $16,000 for charitable organizations serving Will County. The group, a local chapter of 100+ Women Who...

Dresses that originally cost $400 going for $10 at Oak Lawn event aiming to make prom more affordable

May 22, 2019 at 4:47 a.m.

It took Maria Vanderwarren a year to convince her daughter to give up a prom dress that was just hanging around in her closet. Eventually her daughter, Daniele, agreed the...

Longtime hospice nurse hopes to fill void in care for caregivers with Palos facility

May 22, 2019 at 4:36 a.m.

Perhaps it’s someone with health issues who also is tasked with caring for a spouse whose health issues are even more severe. Or maybe it’s a middle-aged daughter with her...

Orland Park veteran among 200 in state to be named to Illinois Bicentennial Honor group

May 22, 2019 at 4:33 a.m.

Tom Dubelbeis remembers spending boyhood afternoons in the 1950s shoveling snow and mowing lawns on the South Side of Chicago for neighbors who were unable to do those tasks themselves....

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