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Marquette Village Board candidate profiles

Marquette Village Board candidate profiles

High interest seen in Marquette trustee race

Ron Burtz
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
To say there is a great deal of interest in the two open seats on the Marquette Village Board would be an understatement. A total of seven candidates are running in the Nov. 5 election for those four-year positions on the board of trustees, including the two people who currently hold those seats.
Jim Happold, 80, has been working at Giltner Public Schools for 40 years. He worked as the school’s custodian from 1984 to 2009 and has been working as one of the schools’ bus drivers since 1997.

Jim Happold, 80, has been working at Giltner Public Schools for 40 years. He worked as the school’s custodian from 1984 to 2009 and has been working as one of the schools’ bus drivers since 1997.

Giltner students pay tribute, help celebrate Happold’s 80th birthday

Elizabeth Hunter
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Jim Happold, 80, has seen many changes to Giltner Public Schools (GPS) since graduating 1962. Having returned to work as both a bus driver and custodian for 40 years, it was a heartwarming gesture to celebrate his 80th birthday on Sept. 26 with the students and staff at GPS.“(Supt.
Village of Hampton

Village of Hampton

Hampton moves White Blossom street project up

Ron Burtz
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Following a hearing on the village’s state-required 2025 One and Six Year Street Improvement Plan, the Hampton Board of Trustees voted Monday night to remove one project from the one year plan and replace it with another on the other end of town that had previously been one of the six-year projects.
Jared Rojewski, left, and some young friends are confronted by a devilish character (George Chaney) at the 2022 apparition of Haunted Fairgrounds. This year’s Hamilton County Ag Society haunting begins this Friday and goes through Sunday and will continue next weekend, Oct. 25-27, as well.

Jared Rojewski, left, and some young friends are confronted by a devilish character (George Chaney) at the 2022 apparition of Haunted Fairgrounds. This year’s Hamilton County Ag Society haunting begins this Friday and goes through Sunday and will continue next weekend, Oct. 25-27, as well.

Fairgrounds braces for annual haunting

News Staff
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Ghosts, ghouls and other creatures of the night are headed for the Hamilton County Fairgrounds this week for the start of the annual Haunted Fairgrounds scare fest that begins Friday night.
The Hamilton County Corn Growers teamed up last week to harvest the seed plot acreage on the Grosshans farm located on the east edge of Aurora along Highway 34. It was a picture-perfect day for harvesting, and the crews were done picking the corn and documenting moisture and yields by early afternoon.

The Hamilton County Corn Growers teamed up last week to harvest the seed plot acreage on the Grosshans farm located on the east edge of Aurora along Highway 34. It was a picture-perfect day for harvesting, and the crews were done picking the corn and documenting moisture and yields by early afternoon.

This week's top stories

News Staff
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
The 2024 harvest season, which is progressing at a fast pace, takes top billing in this week's Aurora News-Register. The lead story in our Ag Life section, which begins on Page A7, is an update on the progress, yields and quality of this year's corn and soybean harvest.
Local schools report fall enrollments

Local schools report fall enrollments

School enrollments remain mostly steady

Staff Reports
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
When the four local school districts turned in their official fall enrollment numbers to the state last week, the figures showed a mostly static school population in the county following enrollment declines in some districts last year.
Beins and Wessels

Beins and Wessels

Two vie for one position on Aurora Airport Authority

Ron Burtz
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Two local men who both have years of experience serving on the Aurora Airport Authority Board are in competition for a single six-year term on the governing body but only one of the candidates’ names will be on the Nov. 5 ballot.