More than 150 people crowded into a recent meeting at Antioch Community High School to listen to a group called BEST explain its opposition to building a new $32 million school. But most of them weren`t buying what BEST was selling. Most of the audience at last week`s session disputed the contentions by BEST (Better […]
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The Lindenhurst Village Board, embroiled in a controversy over burning leaves and the related health risks, is taking the middle road. The board opted Monday night to continue to allow leaf burning, but with restrictions. The exact wording of the ordinance to restrict burning will be discussed Monday and voted into law Sept. 23, said
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School officials in the Antioch area want more money for bricks. An organization of local residents wants more money for brains. Each side will be looking for a mandate from voters in a referendum this November on whether to issue $32 million in bonds to build a new high school. On one side is the
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Lindenhurst residents can burn their leaves now, but that privilege may soon go up in smoke if one village trustee has his way. “I`m really strongly opposed to continued burning in the village,“ said Thomas Berger, who has a doctorate in biology and is manager of a microbiology research group for Abbott Laboratories. “It is
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