In Wake of Connecticut Shootings, New Lenox Police Increase Presence at Schools
District 122 board president Nick DiSandro added that the school board will discuss safety in schools at its meeting this Wednesday.
After a group of young children who were honored for their football accomplishments left Village Hall last night, Mayor Tim Baldermann asked everyone to share a moment of silence for the lives lost in the Newtown, CT school shootings last week. "I wanted to wait until the kids left, because families handle things differently with talking about the tragedy," he said at the village board meeting Certainly, children and parents across the country are asking now whether they will be safe at school in the wake of the Dec. 14 shooting that left 26 dead, including 20 young students in Connecticut. "That may have happened a long distance away from here ... but it touches us all," Baldermann said following the moment of silence. He commended the …
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Linda
4:58 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012
"Our schools are the reason residents come here".......then look at other articles where people are trashing the outgoing superintendent who helped build the reputation of the schools. And they wish they'd never moved here. Yet they stayed for years and years. Such differing opinions. You think that kids are comforted by seeing armed guards? Another differing opinion here. more ›