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Rhodes math teacher wins state award
Oct 6 2010 - 5:00pm  |  District 65

Lisa J. Bernstein, a Bessie Rhodes Magnet School third grade teacher, is this year’s recipient of the Excellence in Elementary Mathematics Teaching award from the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Minority contractors team with branchers
Oct 6 2010 - 9:48am  |  Bill Smith

A group that says it represents minority contractors in Evanston says it's teaming up with the Friends of the Evanston Public Library for a joint protest rally Saturday.

Mitchell Museum plans annual lecture honoring Native American hero
Oct 5 2010 - 10:16pm  |  Nat Silverman

The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston has announced plans to present an annual lecture honoring Dr. Carlos Montezuma, an early 20th-century Native American physician and civil rights crusader who lived and worked in Chicago.

United Way 'Day of Caring' Oct. 16
Oct 5 2010 - 5:33pm  |  UnitedWayNorthShore

The North Shore United Way is partnering with the City of Evanston, Northwestern University and the two area school districts to link employee volunteers, area residents, and local students with various service projects at United Way partner agencies across Evanston.

Cheek test spots lung cancer early
Oct 5 2010 - 5:23pm  |  Northwestern News

Researchers from Northwestern University and NorthShore University HealthSystem have developed a method to detect early signs of lung cancer by examining cheek cells in humans using pioneering biophotonics technology.

Hey, kids! Let's have a logo contest!
Oct 5 2010 - 4:41pm  |  Bill Smith

The City of Evanston is conducting an online poll to help choose a logo for the new 3-1-1 call center it plans to launch next March.

Leadership Evanston and Linda Hansen of Wild Crow Communications have designed six versions of a proposed logo at no charge to the city.

Those designs include the one shown with this story.

All the logo designs incorporate elements from the city seal and some include a key shape as part of the design.

You can see them all and choose the one you like best here.

City officials say the call center will provide residents a single point of contact for all non-emergency city services and programs.

Dozens seek work on city rehab projects
Oct 5 2010 - 11:49am  |  Bill Smith

About three dozen contractors showed up at the Civic Center this morning for a pre-bid conference on the first six foreclosed or abandoned properties to be rehabilitated under Evanston's $18 million federal housing grant.

Bluto, Boon, Flounder and Dean Wormer to help save the Skokie Theater
Oct 5 2010 - 11:08am  |  DebLawrence

Animal House at the Skokie Theatre October 30
SKOKIE, IL -- From the people who brought the Rocky Horror Picture Show to the financially-challenged Skokie Theatre in August comes another classic movie with a popular soundtrack: Animal House (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/).

Board moves closer to a school referendum
Oct 5 2010 - 7:16am  |  Charles Bartling

The Evanston/Skokie District 65 Board of Education moved closer Monday night to appointing a committee that would help sell the rationale for a new school, assuming they determine that a referendum is necessary to obtain funding to solve a projected space crunch.

Library Board: Cuts aren't for us
Oct 5 2010 - 6:45am  |  Bill Smith

While all other city departments are being told to cut their budgets 5 percent, Evanston's Library Board Monday night demanded a 11 percent spending increase.

The board voted to restore service at the north and south branch libraries from four days a week to five and made no cuts in staffing, except to convert a full-time job that's been vacant for two years to a part-time position.

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