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Death Notices, Nov. 20 Edition
Overman-Jones Funeral Home William Power, 85, of Plainfield. The lifelong member of the Bricklayers and Stone Masons Local #21 was born in Belfast, Ireland. Bari Lynn Ford (nee Sheff), 63, of...
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'Westyn's Wish' Toy Drive Celebrates Infant's Brief Life
Westyn Genens never saw his first birthday — or his first Christmas. But the Joliet infant has left behind a legacy of love that is making holidays happier for children facing a Christmas in the...
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Missing Mom's Youngest Child Missing, Too: Cops
Detectives trying to unravel the mystery surrounding a Joliet woman who vanished nearly a month ago now are also trying to track down her youngest child. "There's some question as to his...
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Local Student to Perform in Thanksgiving Parade
Plainfield East High School sophomore Amanda Burke, a member of the Romeoville Razzlers, will be giving up Thanksgiving at home for the limelight as a performer in the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day...
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Police Blotter: DUI, Theft, Battery Arrests
Ivan L. Smith, 22, 510 N. Maggie, Romeoville, arrested by the Plainfield Police Department and booked into the Will County jail on Nov. 15 on a warrant for failure to appear. Robert L. Jones, 56, 522...
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Valley View Makes College Board AP Honor Roll
The Valley View School District submitted this story: Valley View School District 365U was named to the College Board Advanced Placement Honor Roll last week, one of fewer than two dozen school...
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Plainfield Schools to Increase Tax Levy; Public Hearing Slated for Dec. 17
Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 plans to ask the Will and Kendall County clerks for $197,866,981 in local property taxes (including bond and interest) through the district’s 2012...
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Add the Punchline to Our Talking Turkey Cartoon
Are you blessed with insight and good humor? Or just bored today? Share your wit with your neighbors by entering Patch's comic caption challenge. Just add your dialogue for today's comic in the comment...
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Contest: Enter the Great Patch Christmas Cookie Bake-off
Holiday eats just aren't the same without some sweet treats—and you're known to whip up some of the best around. You're the Christmas Cookie Queen, the Host with the Most in Oven Mitts, the guest at...
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Tips to Keep Spending Under Control This Holiday Season
This year, if you want to take advantage of the Black Friday deals, you don't even have to get up early on Friday morning. You can just have one or two extra slices of pumkin pie and head out to area...
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Turkey Day Trivia: 5 Things to Discuss at Dinner
In honor of Thanksgiving, we present five things you may not have known about the holiday we're celebrating today: It's a myth that it's the turkey eaten during Thanksgiving dinner that causes you to...
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62 Degrees on Turkey Day? We'll Take It, Thanks
Call it global warming, call it coincidence, but even as we march towards the end of November—a time for snow, some might say!—we are instead seeing temperatures that look more like outdoor-sports...
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Turkey Horror Stories -- Have We Got 'Em
I was 20 when I attempted to cook my first Thanksgiving turkey. A newly-married Army wife, I not only had no idea what I was doing, but was doing so in a foreign country. I suppose everything could...
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Vote for Your Favorite Thanksgiving Day Food
Thanksgiving Day has been celebrated for centuries here in America. The holiday dates back to 1621 when the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared a harvest feast that has long been...
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Valley View Students, Staff Help Distribute Free Thanksgiving Meals
Several dozen Valley View School District 365U students and staff were among the scores of volunteers helping the DuPage Township Food Pantry hand out free Thanksgiving meals to more than 1,300...
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RHS Junior Named to Chicago Fire's All-State Team
Valley View School District 365U submitted the following story: Romeoville High School junior defender Nick Miller has been named to the Chicago Fire Soccer Club’s 2012 Boys All-State All-Academic...
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Light Up the Holidays Festival All Day Friday
As hard as it may be to believe, Thanksgiving is less than three weeks away and that means Joliet's annual Light Up the Holidays Festival and Parade is right around the corner. Now in its 15th year,...
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Lewis Lands $65,000 Rainwater Collection Grant
This story was submitted by Lewis University: Through a pass through mini-grants program sponsored by Hanson Material Service, Midwest Generation and ComEd, Lewis University has received a $65,000...
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Neighbor Arrested in Killing of Crest Hill Woman, 89; No Motive Released
Police have arrested a neighbor in the murder of 89-year-old Dorothy Dumyahn, whose body was found Sunday inside her burned Crest Hill home. Bruce Gimpel, 48, who lived next door to Dumyahn in his...
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Caption This: Who Says Cats and Dogs Can't Be Friends?
Patch readers, you're up! We need your wit, creativity and animal psychic abilities to craft the perfect caption for the next edition of our pet photo caption challenge! What are this cat and dog...
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