Archive for 'Environment'

Lyman Woods: Healing

Posted 10 May 2009 | By | Categories: Environment, Park District | 10 Comments

Fair warning:  do not proceed unless you have an interest in Lyman Woods.  There’s a bunch of pictures involved here. As a bonus for those who despair of another long and boring post, at the very end I included a picture of a bunch of really hot naked chicks.

Coyote ugly

Posted 18 March 2009 | By | Categories: Conservation, Environment, Village Council | 15 Comments

Along with gypsy moths,  raccoons and the annual army of mosquitos, Downers Grove faces another more ominous critter problem. Resident Dave Brown last night warned the village council about the area’s growing coyote population, a “dangerous nuisance” that has implications for public safety. Just last weekend he chased off a coyote that was stalking his [...]

E-waste makes haste

Posted 23 September 2008 | By | Categories: Environment, People, Places and Things, Social services, Village Hall | 6 Comments

Saturday’s recycling extravaganza collected more than 146,000 pounds of electronics — enough to require seven 53-foot trailers to cart it all off. The village’s first event of its kind, the extravaganza also netted 878 cell phones, 874 inkjet cartridges, and a variety of other items that will be reused including 631 pairs of eyeglasses, 20 [...]

A forest of phone books

Posted 14 August 2008 | By | Categories: Commentary, Conservation, Environment, Features | 2 Comments

This from a reader: “Yesterday we got our delivery of not one but two phone books. Even though I do most of my phone number lookups on the computer, I do like having one copy of a phone book on hand for reference. But why do we get two? And if I’m correct, we also [...]