Mego: Your mother was right - we waste food while others starve
Remember when you were little and didn't want to finish your dinner? Your mother said there was a starving child somewhere who would love to have it? Well, she was right. There is, and there will be...
View ArticleReaders Respond: Schools as polling places, Roskam endorsement of Trump,...
Naperville Sun readers have plenty of opinions when it comes to the news of the day. Here are some of the comments as they appeared on stories posted on www.napersun.com and our Facebook page.In...
View ArticleManker: Cubs pose parental dilemmas our great-grandparents never faced
With the Chicago Cubs potentially on the verge of reaching the World Series – and, egad, possibly winning one! – it's time to again consider the potential ramifications for our children. A year ago,...
View ArticleChef's Choice: When the Italian chef goes dines out, he wants ... Italian
In Chef's Choice, the Naperville Sun asks local chefs about their favorite meal in Naperville at a restaurant other than their own.This week, we speak with John Taylor, 41 who co-owns Angeli's Italian...
View ArticleMego: What Illinois needs right now is a civilian conservation corps
Although there is no realistic chance it would be implemented, one of the things I think would be helpful to create after this ugly election would be an Illinois Conservation Corps, similar to one of...
View ArticleReaders Respond to widened sidewalks, sharpshooter killing pig
Naperville Sun readers have plenty of opinions when it comes to the news of the day. Here are some of the comments as they appeared on stories posted on www.napersun.com and our Facebook page. In...
View ArticleLetters to the editor: Oppose constitutional amendment
Oppose constitutional amendment I do not understand why we need an Illinois constitutional amendment that obligates our state representatives to fund our highway system (basically forever) with...
View ArticleManker: Be grateful for the help today because it may be gone tomorrow
The torch has been passed. Or the leaf blower, as the case may be. For most of the 14 years we've lived in our house, the primary leaf raking, blowing, bagging or mulching duties have fallen to me....
View ArticleChef's Choice: Paella's the thing to order at Meson Sabika, chef says
In Chef's Choice, the Naperville Sun asks local chefs about their favorite meal in Naperville at a restaurant other than their own. This week, we speak with David Perez, 41, co-founder and owner of...
View ArticleMego: Halloween-time holidays offer something for every walk of life, and...
Monday is Halloween, or All Hallows Eve, a holiday resembling the scary Celtic festival called Samhain ("sow-in") that was held Nov. 1 to celebrate the new year. When Pope Gregory III in the mid-700s...
View ArticleLetters to the editor: Vote no, trail problem, food waste
Vote "no" on transportation amendmentThe industry people are urging a "yes" vote on the Nov. 8 ballot proposal that all transportation tax funds be used only for transportation. They argue $6.8...
View ArticleManker: Hard to beat block party on same day as Cubs' World Series game
Few things will make you feel at one with your neighborhood quite like a block party. Our official neighborhood block party is held on a Saturday night in August, usually just as the kids are...
View ArticleChef's Choice: Porterhouse at Sullivan's 'best of both worlds,' My Chef owner...
In Chef's Choice, the Naperville Sun asks local chefs about their favorite meal in Naperville at a restaurant other than their own. This week, we speak with Mark Walter, 42, executive chef at My Chef...
View ArticleMego: Regardless of the 'lizard' you support, you still have to vote
Those of you who aren't familiar with the late humorist and writer Douglas Adams might find a passage from one of his books appropriate this week. The book is "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,"...
View ArticleChef's Choice: Two Brothers co-owner rhapsodizes over Pizzeria Neo's burrata
In Chef's Choice, the Naperville Sun asks local chefs about their favorite meal in Naperville at a restaurant other than their own. This week, we speak with Jason Ebel, 45, co-owner of Two Brothers...
View ArticleMego: Dog torture a way of life for puppy mills; here's how you stop it
Even the worst criminals, men and women who have done unspeakable things to innocent people and ruined the lives and the futures of entire families, get an hour a day outside to feel the sun on their...
View ArticleReaders Respond: Comments on NCC students' March for Solidarity, lock on...
Naperville Sun readers have plenty of opinions when it comes to the news of the day. Here are some of the comments as they appeared on stories posted on www.napersun.com and our Facebook page. In...
View ArticleManker: Asking 'why' key to root of drug/alcohol addiction, one-time NBA...
When talking about the circumstances that led to his drug use, addiction and near-death, Chris Herren spares no detail. He lays bare the pain he hoped the high would soothe, the emotional void he...
View ArticleMego: City burning leaves rather than leaving them for Mother Nature just absurd
If the last two weeks feel like they've been scripted by Lewis Carroll or Samuel Beckett, you will find it fitting that Sunday is national Absurdity Day. In fact, I would argue we have had...
View ArticleLetter: Old oak tree tells Naperville's story
Old oak tree tells Naperville's story I read the Nov. 6 Naperville Sun with a smile earned after 23 years of living here. There was an article about the old Hobson Road oak tree, complete with old...
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