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BHS Needs to Address Bullying and Suicide Epidemic: Student
After losing her best friend to suicide, a Bolingbrook High School student wants to know why more isn't being done to address bullying in her school.

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After losing her best friend to suicide, a Bolingbrook High School student wants to know why more isn't being done to address bullying in her school.

Lili Nash, 14, will train and study at the prestigious Rockette Summer Intensive in New York City this summer.
Clear up overdue items, donate to the food pantry and attend several events held at Fountaindale Public Library next week.
State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora) is crafting legislation that would put a one-year moratorium on virtual online learning proposals to local school districts.
Friendship United Methodist Youth will participate in a 30-hour famine to bring awareness to hunger and poverty.
Police: Parents shouldn't relax curfew rules on Bolingbrook teens' big night.
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Deborah Sykora received the most votes of eight candidates running for four Valley View School District 365U school board seats.
Only 109 votes separated Daniel Falese and Jaime Olson in Tuesday's Valley View School District 365U school board election.
A Bolingbrook resident living in the former home of a registered child sex offender has received verbal insults and obscene gestures from passersby.
Family dog Piglet died April 10 after ingesting what a veterinarian believes was rat poison. Now, the owner is warning other residents to beware.
Gary Grizaffi, assistant superintendent of administrative services for Valley View School District 365U, was not elected Tuesday to a seat of the Batavia School District 101 school board.
Eighteen Romeoville High School students were recently honored as the top in several categories, from English and math to ROTC and athletics.
The meeting will be held at the VVSD Administration Center, 755 Dalhart Avenue, Romeoville at 5:30 p.m.
Eighteen students were each recognized in a specific area, from science and English to NHS and ROTC.
Fewer than 9 percent of registered voters in Bolingbrook cast ballots in the April 2013 election, according to the Will County Clerk's Office.
Three of the four candidates on the "Friends of Valley View" slate received the most votes in the Valley View School District 365U school board Tuesday night.
Arrests and incidents reported to Bolingbrook police on March 24, 26 and 27.