The Park District has posted a notice saying it will accept applications for the board seat vacated by Ron Smith earlier this month. Candidates are asked to submit a letter of interest and a resume on or before Jan. 11, 2010. Smith, who was reelected last spring, was the second board member to resign in [...]
The Christmas shopping hasn’t gone so well, maybe because I’ve spent the entire season way behind the power curve. Projects, decorating and shopping have all been started. None have yet been finished, and with only six days until Christmas, I’m feeling the heat. So I thought I’d open a thread where readers could share great [...]
Ron Smith became the second park district commissioner in a month to resign, stating an opportunity that had presented itself quite suddenly would require him to move out of Downers Grove. “I’m saddened, but I have to go,” said Smith, who was elected to his second term in April 2009. He made the announcement at [...]
The Park Board meets tonight to consider a long-standing lease agreement with District 99 which allows for the mutual use of playing fields, gyms and other indoor and outdoor facilities. A second agreement, which governs the use of the high school swimming pools, is not currently being discussed. The board recently suggested the 33-year-old facilities [...]
Fred Gusel, who fell short in his first bid for the park board last spring, will succeed Commissioner Kathryn Engel-Accetura, who resigned last week because she is moving out of Downesr Grove. Rather than accept applicants for the post as was done when Susan Dunlap resigned in 2003, the board agreed to appoint Gusel, who [...]
The Fishel Park band shell is scheduled for demolition as soon as possible after a structural expert determined it is no longer safe. The park district has been monitoring a crack in the 50-year-old shell for some time. In October it was determined that the shell is leaning as far as possible before it risks [...]
At the August 20 park board meeting, President Bob Gelwicks read a letter he’d received a week earlier from D99 School Board President Julia Kennedy Beckman. Obviously piqued, he explained that the park board has wrestled with how to provide a “large, lighted athletic field” in Downers Grove. “We’re trying to get District 99 to [...]
Downers Grove was named the nation’s fifth best place for a healthy retirement by CNNMoney.com and the editors of Money magazine. The village is one of 20 towns where “residents live a long life, there are lots of doctors and hospitals nearby, and you can pursue an active lifestyle,” according to Money. The article opens [...]
For those of us who prefer getting our news and information via the email inbox, there are a couple more opportunities to stay in the loop. The village has offered a subscription e-mail newsletter for years and the DG Park District recently added a similar service. Now both school districts also are going electronic. D58 [...]
The Downers Grove Park District launched its newly designed Web site last week and it’s a huge step up from the more amateurish effort that preceded it. The home page, which makes good use of the PD’s new long-grass logo, highlights the district’s Rec Connect portal to on-line registration. Hues are a restful, natural green [...]
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