Manker: So many reminders of home so far away from Naperville
Amazing how getting away from home can still feel like home in some ways. Our family experienced just that feeling last week on a spring break vacation to Arizona. Across three days of spring training...
View ArticleChef's Choice: Rosebud's linguine with clams 'brothy and delicious'
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 Patricia Seidel, 35, chef and senior...
View ArticleMego: WWI's 100th anniversary good time to check out Naperville monuments
One-hundred years can seem like a long time, especially when you think of all the events that end up crammed into those years. I've always thought it was remarkable, for example, that a man walked on...
View ArticleEditorial: Disclosing police reports is vital to fighting sexual assault on...
A former student at North Central College organized an event to mark the beginning of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April by sharing her story along Naperville's Riverwalk. "Naperville is very...
View ArticleManker: Grocery chain's plans to fill 'old Menards' a long-sought wish for 15...
The Chicago Cubs won the World Series. Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. And the vacant old Menards building on Ogden Avenue in Naperville is finally getting new occupants. That...
View ArticleLetters to the editor: Late payments from state affect students
Late payments from state affect students The Board of Education of Indian Prairie School District 204 recognizes that a change and improvement in funding must occur for Illinois public schools....
View ArticleMego: Easter an odd combo of traditions with roots in religion, history
One hundred years ago, in 1917, Irving Berlin wrote a song called "Smile and Show Your Dimple." It wasn't until 1933, however, that the melody became popular as part of the Broadway musical "As...
View ArticleEditorial: Naperville taxpayers deserve an explanation for nature center...
The 3-year-old, 5,000-square-foot Knoch Knolls Nature Center, which sits on a 224-acre tract of land donated by the family of Judge Win Knoch, is a beautiful facility and one of Naperville's favorite...
View ArticleManker: In search for answers, maybe we need to ask different questions
By now you've no doubt heard of the petition circulated at Naperville North High School that articulates, in the words of some students there, that the school places too much pressure on them to...
View ArticleMego: Earth started out as paradise, and our job's to keep it that way
This is the week to celebrate the paradise most of us take for granted. Maybe your idea of paradise involves angels sitting on clouds strumming lyres, but for me it's a palm tree-covered Caribbean...
View ArticleLetters to the editor: Race in crime stories, teen pressures, view of COD
Why omit race in crime story?What good is clothing color, height, weight etc. of the perpetrator of a crime, if you don't identify the race of the individual?In your recent article about a carjacking,...
View ArticleListen more, talk less to understand Naperville student's call for change
The powerful words of a Naperville North junior captured the attention of fellow students, parents, school officials and the city as a whole last week."At Naperville North there is one path to...
View ArticleManker: Safety nets nice to have just in case they're needed
Sometimes parenting means being there just in case help is required. If all goes well, there will be fewer instances of this as your children age, but that doesn't mean moments won't arise. This past...
View ArticleMego: When it comes to pets, we have a choice - make the right one
Have you ever been locked up by strangers, frightened, confused, not knowing what you did wrong, missing the only home you have ever known, and rejected by the very people you loved and trusted the...
View ArticleManker: Memories a good trade for Take Your Child to Work Day challenges
When I first learned my employer would be participating in Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, the only thing that seemed more problematic than taking just one or two of them was the idea of...
View ArticleMego: Hats off to forest preserve district for raising mussels to clean river
I believe when somebody does something you think is good, you should say something about it. Too often, people only criticize, as though the only things worth discussing publicly are the things they...
View ArticleRise in STDs in Kane, DuPage, Kendall call for relearning lessons of the past
When parents get around to sitting down with the kids for that vexing discussion about sex, they may want start with this: "Let me tell you about the birds and the bees … and a thing called STDs."...
View ArticleManker: Fidget craze not limited to kids, but real question - how long will...
What will they think of next? That was my first thought when I saw the latest craze taking elementary schools by storm. By now you've likely observed or read about the propellerlike hand-held toys...
View ArticleGuest Column: Learning to detox negative feelings can improve health, outlook
More and more individuals are considering detoxing and cleansing their bodies of impurities for health reasons. But interestingly, some of the most toxic problems we suffer are negative mental states....
View ArticleMego: Sacrifices large and small a reminder to give mom her due this Mother's...
Bruce Robinson, a biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, was operating a robotic camera 4,000 feet below the surface of the ocean when he spotted a purple female octopus guarding a...
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