Published Monday May 06 2013 7:09 am. Tags: Arlington Heights Police Department, Crime Stopper of the Year Award
Arlington Heights Police Department Officer Russell Mandel “Crime Stopper Of The Year” Award. To help promote public awareness of the Arlington Heights Crime Stoppers Program and to recognize Arlington Heights Police Department personnel for exceptional “crime fighting” efforts, Arlington Heights Crime Stoppers and the Arlington Heights Police Department are proud to announce this year’s recipient [...]
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Published Tuesday April 02 2013 8:27 pm. Tags: Buffalo Grove Police Department, police chief, police retirement, retirement
Radio Sign Off from retiring Buffalo Grove Police Chief Steve Balinski. At 2:36 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Buffalo Grove Steve Balinski signed off and marked the end of his tour of duty “10-42″ and the end of his career as a Buffalo Grove Police Chief and Buffalo Grove Police Officer. Balinski served 36 years [...]
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Published Wednesday March 13 2013 4:34 pm. Tags: District 214, HIgh School District 214, Principal of the Year, Wheeling High School
Wheeling High School Principal Dr. Lazaro Lopez has been named Illinois High School Principal of the Year for 2013-14 by Horace Mann and the Illinois Principals Association. The award recognizes high school principals who have demonstrated a positive impact on their students and learning community. Currently in his sixth year as principal, Lopez has led [...]
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Published Wednesday March 06 2013 6:17 am. Tags: Arlington Heights Police Department, L.W. Calderwood Officer of the Year, police officer
Arlington Heights Police Department Investigator Todd Radek. The Arlington Heights Police Department L.W. Calderwood Officer of the Year Award is an annual award presented to the police officer demonstrating the most significant contributions that year toward the overall betterment of the community. The award is sponsored by the Arlington Heights Rotary Club, and is named [...]
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Published Thursday February 14 2013 10:36 am. Tags: Arlington Heights School District 25, Character Counts Pillars of Fairness
Greenbrier Gators wrote letters of appreciation to the Arlington Heights Police Department to honor the Character Counts Pillar of Fairness. Officer Aiello was able to accept the letters from our students, thanking the Arlington Heights Police Deaprtment for excellence in services provided for the community and for being so fair! Greenbrier Gators to AHPD: “We [...]
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Published Tuesday February 05 2013 5:50 am. Tags: IMRF, retirement fund, Village of Arlington Heights
Tom Kuehne begins his first term on the IMRF board of trustees OAK BROOK, Ill. —January 30, 2013 — Village of Arlington Heights Director of Finance and Treasurer Tom Kuehne was elected to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) board of trustees as an executive trustee. His five-year term began Jan. 1. As the second [...]
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Published Monday January 21 2013 8:36 am. Tags: Hearts of Gold, Hearts of Gold Arlington Heights, Village of Arlington Heights
The Special Events Commission is proud to announce the winners of the 2013 Hearts of Gold awards, who will be honored in a community celebration at the Hearts of Gold Awards Dinner at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, February 9, 2013 at European Crystal Banquet & Conference Center, 519 W. Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights. This awards program [...]
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Published Friday November 30 2012 6:10 am. Tags: charity, homeless, NYPD
A snapshot by Jennifer Foster, showing New York City police officer Larry DePrimo giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square one night, has created an online sensation. Officer Larry DePrimo gave the man a pair of all-weather boots and thermal socks on the frigid night. Dear Paul B Readers, I just [...]
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Published Monday October 15 2012 3:27 am. Tags: Chuck Yaeger, Felix Baumgartner, Mach 1, sound barrier
The first pilot to break the sound barrier in an aircraft did it again on Sunday. General Chuck Yeager flew faster than the speed of sound, exactly 65 years after his historic flight. Sixty-five years after becoming the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound in an aircraft, retired Air Force Brig. [...]
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Published Friday August 31 2012 10:21 am. Tags: Mount Prospect Police Department
Mount Prospect Police Deputy Chief TIim Janowick graduated from Northwestern University’s Center of Public Safety, Executive Management Program on Friday, August 24, 2012. the Executive Management Program provides law enforecement policy-making executives with effective skills to manage today’s changin law enforcement environment. The three week program challenges participants to engage interactively. The program questions, investigates, [...]
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Published Monday August 27 2012 11:38 pm. Tags: death, death notice, NASA, respect
NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong died Saturday, August 25, 2012. He was the first human being to walk on the surface of the Moon. His first spaceflight was the NASA Gemini 8 mission in 1966, but he’s famous for proclaiming as he stepped on the Moon on July 20, 1969, “That’s one small step for a [...]
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Published Tuesday July 17 2012 1:27 pm. Tags: Brooklyn, citizen rescue, fall, New York
A seven-year-old autistic girl climbed out on to a window ledge of her Brooklyn apartment. Cell phone video captured the girl’s fall in the arms of a man standing below. Keyla McCree, 7, of Brooklyn fell from a third-floor window, but was saved by an alert neighbor who absorbed the force of her fall. Keyla [...]
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