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Apr 2nd, 2025 👍 4895

Elgin Area School District U-46 is breaking ground on new projects to modernize its middle schools for sixth- through eighth-graders. The district began a 46,000-square-foot, $30 million addition at Kenyon Woods Middle School in South Elgin on Wednesday and will start a 53,000-square-foot, $25 million addition at Kimball Middle School on April 7 and a 193,000-square-foot, $110 million new facility on Rohrssen Road on April 22—these projects also include $53 million in upgrades at Hawk Hollow Middle School in Bartlett to boost capacity and improve learning spaces.

Apr 2nd, 2025 👍 2402

Elgin Community College’s new Seigle Scholar Program accepts applications from high school seniors and first-year college students for a full-ride scholarship offered by the ECC Foundation with a deadline of April 12. The program was established last fall by philanthropists Mark and Robin Seigle and had awarded three students full tuition scholarships in its first cohort.

Apr 2nd, 2025 👍 3713

Last week, the Elgin City Council voted 5-4 against a plan to delay the ban on synthetic THC product sales and kept the rule from late February—shops must now stop displaying, selling, and advertising these unlicensed items. Business owners had wanted a delay until late August—letting them clear current stocks, but council members felt the ban was needed to protect public health.

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