Elk Grove Township Elementary District 59 school board members are set to vote next month on a controversial proposal that would reconfigure and pair up elementary schools into grade level centers, redistrict some areas, and repurpose the popular year-round Ridge Family Center for Learning into a preschool.
Austinite Amal Morse says she’s just a “concerned human being” when it comes to climate change but Grape-Nuts says she’s a woman changing the world. A documentary filmmaker who focuses on the effects of climate change in Antarctica, Morse was able to travel to the continent in March, with the help of a grant from Grape-Nuts’ Female Pioneers program.