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Have a Happy 4th of July.

However you celebrate our independence, be sure to celebrate safely.

Daylight Savings Time begins tonight, March 13, at 2am.  Don’t forget to turn your clocks ahead.

Orchard Valley’s Annual Garage Sale this weekend, June 7th and 8th from 8am to 3pm. Good luck with your sale!

The Aurora Town Club, a vintage ​baseball ​team of Aurora Police Department officers, will play its season and home finale at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26.

Town Club will host the Milwaukee Juneaus at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 2567 W. Sullivan Rd. in Aurora. Continue reading

On Wednesday August 16 the West Aurora Concerned Citizens neighborhood group will be holding their monthly meeting at the new 5th Ward meeting space at 1921 W. Galena Blvd. in West Plaza. The meeting starts at 6:30. This will be the first public event there. Mayor Irvin will be in attendance to kick off the new venue. All 5th ward residents are invited and encouraged to shop in West Plaza before and after the meeting.

Save the Date!

We’ll be helping our friends at Culver’s serve hungry patrons and raise money for Special Olympics Illinois from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, August 10 at 509 Illinois Rt. 59. We’ll be donating any tips, and proceeds from selling Law Enforcement Torch Run memorabilia to Special Olympics. Culver’s will be donating $1 for every Concrete Mixer sold that day to the Special Olympians.  Hope to see you there!

FREE CONCERT-  Aurora American Legion Band- 1937 to 2017, Celebrating  their 80 Year Anniversary with a concert on Sunday July 30th at 2pm in the West Aurora High School Auditorium.

Positive economic development news. There is a contract to purchase Cosmopolitan Market Place by Aurora Packing. They are a meat processing business now located in North Aurora. Their plan is to bring the already slaughtered meat from North Aurora to Aurora for processing. Per our request, they will also incorporate a retail butcher shop. They are hoping to model it after Reams which is a butcher shop in Elburn that provides quality meat products. They believe they will be bringing over 100 new jobs to the area also. Truck traffic will be minimal and and all noise and odor created by the business will be confined inside the building. All the particulars with drawings and such still need to go through city council. That will take a few months. I anticipate that the process will go smoothly and provide a much needed anchor business in that area.

Our major crime statistics for the first six months of 2017 show an 18.2 percent drop in violent crime while property crimes were almost flat (actual increase of 0.2 percent) when compared to the first six months of 2016. Total crime in the city is down 3.6 percent over the same period last year. Continue reading