Kathy Routliffe

Bailey Byrnes, a student at Sacred Heart School in Winnetka, with reusable drinking straws.

Sacred Heart eighth-grader helps bring documentary on environmental straw dangers to Winnetka

May 10, 2019 at 10:39 p.m.

Plastic straws are useful and ubiquitous. They are also helping to choke our oceans and landfills with indestructible pollution, say environmental activists. Bailey Byrnes, an eighth-grade student at Sacred Heart...

Kara Gillespie and her son, Ben, try stacking apples in the game room.

Mother and son night draws 90 people to Wilmette Recreation Center

May 10, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

Sometimes, in the rush of life between school, homework, soccer games and boyhood friendships, boys have little chance just to enjoy time with one of the most important women in...

Romona School parents Tania Bouwman, left, Lauren Litchfield, center, and Shannon Zock stand at the Locust Road crosswalk where a crossing guard will serve through 2019-2020.

Romona parents win Locust Road crossing guard through 2019-2020 school year

May 10, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

Romona Elementary School parents are breathing a sigh of relief now that the village of Wilmette has agreed to keep a temporary school crossing guard in place on Locust Road,...

Smaller One Winnetka project gets divided Village Council approval

May 10, 2019 at 10:39 p.m.

Winnetka Village Council preliminarily approved a pared down One Winnetka project Tuesday, with less retail space and fewer parking spots, thanks to three closely split council votes. The three decisions...

Ex-Loyola Academy teacher under investigation for crimes against children, placed on leave by special education district

May 10, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

A Highland Park-based special education school has placed one of its teachers on administrative leave, and officials plan to recommend firing him after learning that Glenview police are investigating him...

Cast members Zach Barker, from left, Claire Umpleby and Alex Carrigan rehearse.

North Shore Country Day play explores teen growth through superpowers

May 10, 2019 at 10:39 p.m.

What happens to the heart of a troubled young girl whose memory of trauma is complicated by her own frightening powers, and how do both affect the people around her?...

Chloe Park eyes the rainbow design she was drawing on her kite.

Avoca seventh-graders fly kites — many for the first time — as team building experience

May 10, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

It didn’t matter to Gabriel Lopez that the overcast sky above Marie Murphy School was spitting rain on Friday. The Wilmette 12-year-old ignored the dreary weather and focused on getting...

Hands go up at the Bahai Welcome Center in Wilmette, as the audience that watched "The Long Shadow."

New Trier healing racism group screens documentary at Bahai House of Worship

May 10, 2019 at 10:39 p.m.

An African-American mother told a New Trier group that helped sponsor a movie on racism that she wasn’t prepared for that much history in the documentary “The Long Shadow.” Tynesha...

Students wave their cellphones as "Falling Stars" during the rally.

New Trier rally sends homecoming enthusiasm rocketing

May 10, 2019 at 10:39 p.m.

New Trier High School drum line members set the tempo for Spirit Week and Homecoming 2018 enthusiasm right off the bat Friday, when they marched into the Winnetka campus’s Gates...

Wilmette boy found with guns hidden in room faces felony charges in juvenile court

May 10, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

The Wilmette Junior High School student caught Sept. 16 with loaded firearms in his bedroom now face multiple weapons charges, Wilmette police said Thursday. The youth was charged with two...

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