Tour Guide De Force
Remember pay phones? Bruce “Buzzy” Bertucci, 74, certainly does, and one of his favorite Highwood stories features the one that stood across the street from the restaurant Sandy’s, a man…
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Cartoons
Pickle Me Kauri
Pickleball continues to sweep the nation, and perhaps no one enjoys hanging on to one of the “bristles” more than Kauri McKendry. “It’s incredible, the number of people signing up…
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Viva Andrew Hotz
Andrew Hotz looked at his tablemates under the Memphis sky one night this year and couldn’t believe his good fortune. A Winnetkan since 2020 and a part-time resident of Los…
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A Scholar And A Gentleman
The golf bug bit Tom Kearney at Beverly Country Club in Chicago more than six decades ago. He was 11 and a first-year caddie, making $3.75 per loop. Or about…
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Notably Ellie
The compliment could have qualified as the understatement of the year. It ended up doubling as a career launcher. “You’re good at this,” a woman told ellie Nottoli, after Nottoli,…
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Feels Like Home
He stood outside his New York office on Sundays, greeting people for up to six hours in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—a Russian-Empire-born…
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Dogged Dave
Highland Park mailman Dave Plucinski walked his route for the final time on June 30, and the numbers are in, none more eyeopening than the final one. 34: Years Plucinski,…
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Fourth Right
You want Lake Forest Festival & Fireworks stories? Event Coordinator Rick Amos has them—plenty of them. There was the year when the headliner and his daughter/backup singer got into an…
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Caswell’s Goodwill
A North Carolina girl with special needs enters her redone bedroom for the first time. She then falls onto her new bed, spreads her arms, buries her face in the…
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Bet On Veronica
It doesn’t take much to remind Veronica Lilja Brugioni to make sure every day in her chosen profession is a stirring one. A gander at the name on the door…
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