Jeff Arnold

During the 11 years that the Joliet native spent as an assistant U.S. attorney, John Lausch tried more than 20 jury cases involving racketeering, fraud, narcotics, extortion and firearms offenses

Two area schools behind the possible formation of a new athletic conference sought admission to the Big Northern Conference only to be told the league was not interested in adding to its 16-school membership.

Less than a mile past where the big wooden sign boasts Harvard as being a community where success comes naturally, the signs chronicling the town’s football accomplishments begin.

Woodstock and Woodstock North will seek approval from the District 200 school board in December to begin proceedings to leave the Fox Valley Conference and begin a new athletic conference beginning in the fall of 2015.