We the people of Naperville, Illinois, USA!

Cheers to good health as well as the choices and freedoms we’ve experienced in a can-do spirited community that dates back even before Joe Naper and his family arrived here via Conestogas in 1831.

All said, through ups and downs with targeted growth and development, November again presents two blessed holidays when simply saying “Thanks!” is enough.

From WE to I

Year after year since September 2001, kindly note these editorial commentaries mostly have focused on the collective “we” to avoid the too personal “I.”

This month, however, let me write what I’ve appreciated about Thanksgiving since my third birthday.

For starters, the descendants of the Gertrude and Paul Mitchell, my mother’s parents, had been gathering together to count their b

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