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A specialty birthday cake baker relocating to Naperville wanted to tell her new community about her business. A single mother was looking for play dates for her children and supportive friends for...
View ArticleMego: Something special about enjoying warm summer nights with family, friends
I think these are the most valuable days of the year. In the daytime it's warm and quiet and sometimes so still that the only things moving are those little blue dragonflies that occasionally land on...
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Naperville Sun readers have plenty of opinions when it comes to the news of the day. Here are some of the comments left on stories posted on our website — www.napersun.com — and on our Facebook...
View ArticleManker: Baseball coaches can affect kids far beyond a winning or losing season
If the outcome of youth sporting events were truly as serious as some of us treat them, you might think they really were a matter of life and death. Of course, they're not. See, when it comes to...
View ArticleMego: Stores leading to their own demise with bad service, no inventory
This Sunday marks the 22nd anniversary of the day Amazon sold its first book. If you're curious, that book was "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of...
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Naperville Sun readers have plenty of opinions when it comes to the news of the day. Here are some of the comments left on stories posted on our website — www.napersun.com — and on our Facebook page....
View ArticleMego: Best reason to preserve old Nichols Library? Because we like it
I used to have an old van I drove until the main bearing finally gave out after hundreds of thousands of miles. It wasn't a particularly good van, but I kept repairing it and patching the rust holes...
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Old library deserves new page Let's find a new life for Old Nichols Library. Demolition is not the solution. Preliminary inspection results show that the building is in good shape, although it does...
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Naperville Sun readers have plenty of opinions when it comes to the news of the day. Here are some of the comments left on stories posted on our website — napersun.com — and on our Facebook page. In...
View ArticleColumn: How land around train station gets developed a test of who we are
Naperville's downtown Metra station is awkwardly situated. That's not particularly uncommon for Metra stations, but it does create a lot of difficulties, traffic- and otherwise. At certain times of...
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Naperville Sun readers have plenty of opinions when it comes to the news of the day. Here are some of the comments left on stories posted on our website — napersun.com — and on our Facebook page. In...
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'Some things money cannot buy'In regards to the current status of the historical Naperville Nichols Library, Councilwoman Becky Anderson must be congratulated for her recent opinion that holding the...
View ArticleColumn: This special group, once strangers, is forever family
Last Saturday we came together again in a Naperville back yard, lugging coolers and carrying plastic bowls and platters full of food, hugging each other and exclaiming with delight over how tall our...
View ArticleColumn: Schools should not be dictating start and end of summer
Maybe it's just because I'm getting older. You can blame a lot of things on that. Or maybe it's because I'm slowly recovering from a weird disorder that has kept me inside for the last couple of...
View ArticleColumn: Mayor should be fighting to save old Nichols Library
When something is important to a city, it is up to its officials to fight for it. When they don't, it's up to its residents. I've been quietly following efforts to save old Nichols Library in downtown...
View ArticleColumn: Locher an amazing man who deserves to be remembered
Every now and then a man comes along who seems consumed with life, who seems to have at least two things going all the time and yet he's able to remain kind, funny and inspiring. Such a man was...
View ArticleColumn: Taking stock of life and columns as summer days start to wane
I sent my daughter off to middle school this week, ending a particularly poignant summer the same way I began it, in reflection over the passage of time and the tug of the heart as a child takes a...
View ArticleColumn: Naperville's response to Charlottesville makes me glad I live here
I decided to pursue my advanced degrees in the American southeast because the schools were excellent and I could actually afford to attend them. That's how I ended up first in the Carolinas and...
View ArticleLetters to the editor: Many views of old Nichols Library
Preservationists had their chance Recent articles about the status of old Nichols Library illustrate yet again what is wrong in this country. We look at our federal and state governments and wonder...
View ArticleColumn: Mystery man gave a gift far greater than just buying ice cream
Random acts of kindness have a way of sticking with you. One night about three months ago, I'd taken my elder son to a nearby ice cream place to get treats for our family, five in all. We waited in...
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