Hinsdale Middle School history teacher Rick Dusek remembers celebrating the bicentennial when he was in third grade. "It seemed like the community and our school was doing a lot for the 200th birthday ...

Hinsdale High School District 86 Among other business June 25, board members: • approved the following four goals for Superintendent Chip Pettit: Identify a league of comparable districts to establish ...

What can we learn about the Declaration of Independence? The Second Continental Congress - one of the provisional legislative bodies formed to govern the 13 American colonies - did not set out to cast ...

In the first of The Hinsdalean's three-part round-up of recently graduated high school student-athletes ascending to college sports programs, the new undergrads reveal both cherished reflections on ...

Merlin here, and I sure won't make you pull a sword out of a stone to begin our journey together! Wait, did Merlin even have anything to do with that? Oh well, I'm a dog and we're not known for our ...

Church flip - The Congregational Church was built on the corner of Third Street and Garfield Avenue in 1881. This photo is from "Picturesque Hinsdale" published in the late 1890s. The church was town ...

By Sandy Illian Bosch news@thehinsdalean.com The name of this year's Fourth of July celebration in Hinsdale says it all. "4th ...

Rising Hinsdale Central junior Elizabeth Zhu is an accomplished musician. But that's not what earned her a trip to Carnegie ...

Porch Decorating Contest July 4 entry deadline The village is inviting residents to decorate their porches with patriotic ...

I have fond memories of the nation's bicentennial. I was 9 years old and very enthusiastic about celebrating such an important birthday for our country. I remember collecting bicentennial quarters, ...