While its main facility at 415 W. Eighth St. is home to most of the Hinsdale programming offered by the Community House, the Youth Center operated by the organization continues to have its own separate presence. And it looks as if the Youth Center will continue use of a former Public Works Department structure at 229 Symonds Drive. The Hinsdale Village Board has approved a five-year extension of ...

A new slate of officers for the Hinsdale Central Booster Club will be voted on at the organization’s annual meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. June 6 at 838 S. Grant St., Hinsdale. Those interested in joining the boosters or learning about the group is encouraged to attend. Information can be found on the website www.theboosters.com or by calling (630) 887-7562. The slate of officers for the 2012 ...

Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills are among five DuPage County communities in which positive tests for the West Nile virus have been discovered in mosquito traps, DuPage County Health Department officials said May 23. Clarendon Hills, Hinsdale, Lisle, Westmont and Woodridge were the locations of traps in which the first positive tests for 2012 were found. The Health Department has notified officials ...

It didn’t take long for Nichole Mara to become hooked on fishing. The Hinsdale Central senior has some very early memories of joining her dad when he would grab the tackle box and fishing poles, and head for a lake or pond. “I started going with my dad first,” Mara said. “Ever since I was in diapers, we would go, even ice fishing. I’m an only child, and my mom fishes, too, so it was something we ...

Police officers and firefighters from four local municipalities were still waiting Monday afternoon to find out who was going to be treated to a pizza party. Pizza is to be the prize in the Boots Versus Badges blood drive, which was hosted May 7-10 at the Adventist Lab Partners Blood Center, 121 N. Elm St., Hinsdale. Anyone who donated blood or platelets could vote for their favorite department ...

Five Hinsdale Fire Department paramedics have been selected as the second runner-ups for the prestigious 2012 Dr. Joseph Hartmann Award of Excellence. Don Newberry, Andy Smith, Tom McCarthy, Doug Niemeyer and Michael Karban were honored for their response to an incident last year in which a man collapsed while marching in the village’s Fourth of July parade.

The first school year in which students were able to take some elective courses for honors credit has been successful, said Hinsdale Central Principal Michael McGrory. The option to have more rigorous class requirements and earn honors credit, which has a weighted effect on students’ grade point averages, was introduced for the 2011-2012 school year for eight courses in Hinsdale High School ...

If two-time defending Class 3A boys track state champion Lake Park had anything left to prove, it was that the Lancers were not three or four superstars scoring megapoints but, in fact, a team.

PALATINE — Early in Friday’s fourth-round match against Hinsdale Central’s 3-4 seeded Alex Hagermoser and Peter Heneghan, it looked like Boylan’s Adam Dahlberg and Max Samstag were laying the foundation for an upset at the IHSA state boys tennis tournament.

Edwardsville's doubles team of Justin Leskera and Cameron Randall gave the eventual state champ