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SANDWICH — It’s an issue that affects about 10 million women, but one many are too embarrassed to discuss even with their gynecologists. Menorrhagia is the clinical term for menstrual periods that are heavy, prolonged or restrict a woman’s quality of life.

SOMONAUK — The Somonauk Summer Fest Committee has announced that Don Riemensnider has been chosen to preside over the first-ever Summer Fest parade as the 2009 grand marshall.

SOMONAUK — In 2005, Somonauk Community Unit School District 432 established a master plan to guide the district’s future growth. Included in the plan were “green” concepts. Among other practical uses, the concepts would help maintain wetlands on the district’s property. An additional green concept proposed to the plan was the installation of a wind turbine to generate the district’s electricity.

SYCAMORE – Just days after the DeKalb County Board approved the county’s first wind farm, its Planning and Zoning Committee will recommend to the full board a three-year moratorium on expansion or new wind farms.

NEWARK — Members of the Fern Dell Historic Association in Newark will celebrate the Fourth of July by seeing a longtime dream come true.

SANDWICH — To paraphrase a famous American author, reports of the Gjovic auto dealership’s demise are greatly exaggerated.

DEKALB – The DeKalb County Board granted permission in a 16-4 vote Wednesday for a wind energy company to build and operate 119 turbines in western portions of the county.

SOMONAUK — With their young lives already touched by cancer, two fourth-grade students at J.R. Wood Elementary School in Somonauk decided they had to do something to help.

SANDWICH — Nationally-known Christian recording artist Caleb Rowden will bring his balancing act to the Harvest Chapel in Sandwich on Wednesday, June 17.

SOMONAUK — Chuck Haas has more than memories of working the fields with his grandfather, John Hann. He has the tractor grandpa used to till the soil.

120 miles of bargains, hidden treasures at yearly event

SOMONAUK — Rilee Burke wasn’t sure what to say to her classmates in her speech on Sunday, May 31.

PLANO — It’s been a year like no other for Plano High School’s class of 2009.

Rain barrels in Somonauk spread conservation message