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The Daily Chronicle's sports section was honored with several awards this week at the annual Associated Press Sports Editors contest in Kissimmee, Fla.

CORTLAND – The DeKalb School District 428 board Tuesday discussed the best way to use hundreds of thousands of dollars in remaining referendum money for schools throughout the district.

SYCAMORE – Ken Olson is aware of the difficulties parents who have students in music programs face.

DeKALB – One of the passengers involved in a fatal car crash early Sunday remains hospitalized.

EARLVILLE – Authorities have identified the man killed during a home invasion early Sunday in rural LaSalle County.

MALTA – A University of Illinois Extension professor gave Illinois Crop Management Conference attendees Tuesday advice on avoiding insect resistance to crop pesticides.

DeKALB – The Airport Advisory Board on Tuesday got an update about a recent Federal Aviation Administration bill that will put new projects on hold through 2013.

DeKALB – John Frieders has spent nearly two decades shaping the Sandwich community. 

The Illinois Commerce Commission approved last week new water and sewer rates for Aqua Illinois after cutting more than $1 million from the company’s request for new revenue.

DeKALB – Goodwill stores, including the one in DeKalb, have gotten what Craig Grugel describes as a deluge of TVs since a new law went into effect earlier this year.

SYCAMORE – Sycamore is in line for a big revenue boost because the former Mike Mooney auto dealership is set to cross city lines from DeKalb to a new location in Sycamore.

Regional Superintendent Gil Morrison called the past few months draining and exhausting.

SYCAMORE – Today is the last day for regular voters to register to vote in the March 20 primary.

SANDWICH – A Sandwich man was critically injured Sunday night when he was struck by a vehicle.

DeKALB – Nine DeKalb businesses failed tobacco compliance checks performed Wednesday by the DeKalb Police Department by selling tobacco products to minors.