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Buffalo Grove finance chief to step into role as Barrington village manager

May 15, 2019 at 5:24 p.m.

The Barrington Village Board approved hiring the person who is to replace retiring Village Manager Jeff Lawler. Scott Anderson, who is currently director of finance and general services for the...

Students at Barrington Middle School-Station Campus helped fill bags of food for shipping to needy families worldwide April 26, 2019. Students from Barrington High School also participated.

Volunteers met at Barrington Middle School-Station Campus to pack food to be sent to families worldwide

May 6, 2019 at 6:39 p.m.

Volunteers gathered at at Barrington Middle School-Station Campus as the 60010 Feeds Kids organization held its annual food packing drive, readying the non-perishables to be sent to needy families around...

Penny Kazmier, left, was chosen president of the Barrington School District 220 Board of Education April 30, 2019 as the new board was seated following the April 2 election. Now-former President Brian Battle did not seek reelection to the board.

Kazmier elected Barrington School District 220 board president as new members seated, longtime ones bid farewell

May 6, 2019 at 6:08 p.m.

The Barrington School District 220 Board of Education seated two new school board members elected last month and said farewell to two longstanding, out-going members who had decided not to...

Shout Out: Jaime Saari, nurse of the year who also has a farm with goats, bees, pigs and flowers for sale

May 6, 2019 at 5:21 a.m.

Jaime Saari was named "Nurse of the Year" at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington after being nominated by her manager. Q: Why did you become a nurse? A: Because...

Aamina Munzir, left, and Lauren Carder, both seniors at Barrington High School, joined female classmates on a visit April 11, 2019 to computer science and information technology companies in Chicago to interact with women in those careers.

Group of female Barrington High School students talk directly with professional women in STEM careers

April 29, 2019 at 5:31 p.m.

Thirty-two female students at Barrington High School with interests in computer science and science, engineering, technology and mathematics — STEM fields — traveled to Chicago recently for a handson experience...

This 2014 file photo shows use of the turf field at Barrington High School stadium. School District 220 officials have approved replacing the current turf carpet during summer 2019. The football. lacrosse and soccer teams are among the groups that use the field, along with band.

Stadium turf at Barrington High School to be replaced over summer break

April 29, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.

The worn artificial turf at Barrington High School's outdoor sports stadium is scheduled to be replaced this summer, at a cost of $635,000 to Barrington School District 220, officials said....

Speaking April 23, 2019 at Barrington's White House, Guillaume Lacroix, consul general of France in Chicago, thanked the U.S. for its support and sympathies in the wake of the April 15 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral. Lacroix's visit was part of "April in Paris" theme in Barrington.

French consul Lacroix spoke in Barrington, was ‘touched by outpouring’ of support in wake of Notre Dame fire

May 22, 2019 at 8:59 a.m.

France's Consul General to Chicago spoke during a reception Tuesday in Barrington about the devastating fire that destroyed part of the iconic Notre Dame cathedral, and he thanked the U.S....

Out Shout: Al Buschauer, majored in biology but got into photography ‘on a whim’

April 26, 2019 at 6:18 p.m.

A Barrington resident, Al Buschauer has been a self-employed portrait artist photographer for 42 years. For the past six years, he's been showing his work at the Barrington Art Festival....

Ella Doloughty, a third-grader at Country Meadows Elementary School in Long Grove, practices on the recorder March 2019 at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire.

Stevenson High School engineering students modify instrument so third-grader with disability could play it

May 24, 2019 at 1:06 a.m.

When Ella Doloughty started playing a recorder in her elementary school music class, engineering students at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire redesigned the instrument so that she could play it...

Sierra Caron and her 4-year-old son Lennox were among the Earth Day volunteers April 22, 2019 at Pederson Preserve in Barrington.

Barrington High School students, other community volunteers work in Pederson Preserve to mark Earth Day

April 29, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

The Barrington Area Conservation Trust recognized Earth Day Monday by again inviting the community to its own outdoor hands-on, learning classroom — the protected 5.6 acre Pederson Preserve — to...

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