Last summer I saw a squirrel in the park wearing a red collar. For a while I saw him every few days around the same area. Everybody thought I was seeing something else – it was injured or had paint on it or something.

Last fall we published a report on a very special flower Anna Kumorowicz of Libertyville was growing in her yard: the Angel's Trumpet.

A team of four volunteers gathered behind Congressman Mark Kirk's Northbrook Office at 707 Skokie Blvd. Sept. 3 to load donations for Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Ike victims into a moving van.

The Lake County Greek Festival returned August 15-17 after a two year absence with an important addition to the celebration: the new St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church.

Folks came out to shop, eat, enjoy some music and shop some more in Libertyville on July 18.