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Class of 1969 celebrates 45 years
Just six weeks before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, 420 members of the Niles Senior High School Class of 1969 received their high school ...
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A legendary tribute to two Viking legends
For the past seven months, the trustees of the Niles Education Foundation have been busy raising money and planning their first ever district wide fundraiser ...
by Jack Strayer, Thursday, June 26, 2014 9:08 am
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Celebrating New York’s World Fair
Right after school got out in June of 1965, I flew alone out of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport aboard a TWA 727 and landed at the ...
by Jack Strayer, Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:41 am
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A confident school board moves forward
It all began during the coldest point in a record-breaking frigid winter, but it was the hottest story the local news had experienced in years. ...
by Jack Strayer, Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:18 am
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When current events collide
It seems like only yesterday when Russian President Vladimir Putin stepped up and saved the Obama Administration from following through on its threat to use ...
by Jack Strayer, Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:18 am
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Making ObamaCare worse
Just when you thought that the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act couldn’t get any worse, President Obama signs his 18th executive order altering the ...
by Jack Strayer, Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:11 am
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Jack Strayer: How a teacher changed history for a grateful student
Ever since William Mitchell wrote about “My Hometown” on the op-ed page of the Niles Daily Star two months ago, I have been anxious to ...
