olive on November 30th, 2007

If you don’t know what that means ask your kids! Anyway the East Garfield / Rt 82 bridge is open. yahoo! hammer down!

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olive on November 30th, 2007

A special meeting will be held Saturday, Dec 1 at 8 am  the agenda is as follows:

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olive on November 30th, 2007

While attempting to flee, the suspect in a rape case, drew a gun, Aurora Police Chief Seth Reiwald struggled with him and several shots were fired. The Chief pulled his weapon and fired, wounding the suspect in the face. The alledged rape had occurred in Aurora, and the Chief was in Solon to serve a […]

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olive on November 29th, 2007

To Be Jolly! here is last year’s holiday lights highlights

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olive on November 28th, 2007

Here is a link to the Advocate story about the school cuts. Many good quotes and explanations. Editor, Ken Lahmers has written about the levy in this insightful editorial  here 

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olive on November 27th, 2007

Despite terrible weather, the Aurora Turkey Trot was a success. Here’s one runner’s description.

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olive on November 27th, 2007

Here is a link to the school website which announces the reasoning for cutbacks and full effect of the levy failure.

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olive on November 27th, 2007

As a result of the failure of the November 6 mill combined levy, the Aurora School Board announced cost-saving cuts and increases in fees. The meeting was attended by mostly teachers and administrative staff, maybe 10 parents were there. Some of these cuts have

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olive on November 7th, 2007

The Aurora School Levies came so close to passing. Can’t we do some extra credit to bring up the vote a bit? How about we vote on a curve? You know supporters really wanted it to pass so can’t we go over the vote and get a few extra points somewhere? Kidding aside, only 126 […]

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