Living Here, November 28, 2018
Living Here Repair, Renovate or Repurpose. The Riviera is in need of repair and the cost of the...
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Tag: Yerkes Observatory
Our Place, November 21, 2018
Our Place The Nord wind. A welcome to David Nord, the new city administrator. His job will not be...
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Letters To The Editor, November 14, 2018
Letters to the Editor I have analyzed the Charles Yerkes letter that details the gift he made to...
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Little Gems, November 14, 2018
Little Gems Wild Thing Beachwear. This great small store is located at 858 Main street, and is one...
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Front Page, November 7, 2018
What’s going on over at the Yerkes, and why is the University of Chicago acting like it’s got loads of stuff hidden up in its moth-eaten attic that it doesn’t want the public to see or hear about?
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Front Page, October 31, 2018
The earth under the Yerkes moves, like an earthquake, building into a tsunami.
Let’s go all the way back to when Mr. John Johnson donated the land that the Yerkes Observatory sits on. Mr. Johnson gave the property to the University of Chicago, apparently without restriction…
Front Page, October 10, 2018
Yerkes barricades itself in for the long siege. What is it that the University of Chicago is trying to prove with the Yerkes Observatory? They shut the thing down and boarded up the building. They blockaded the entrance.
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Front Page, October 3, 2018
The Yerkes Observatory is now officially closed. It went down on Monday, October 1, 2018, as was advertised. Now what? Are there any new plans for Yerkes’ future? The talk around the lake is about some form of development getting ready to take place on the observatory property, with Mike Keefe being the motive force behind it.
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Front Page, September 26, 2018
Everyone waits in silence, in waiting rooms nearby, in halls, in homes and in communities surrounding the funeral scene where the patient lays dying. The Yerkes Observatory,
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Front Page, September 12, 2018
How important is The Riviera, considering that there may well be little remembrance of former things remaining through time and that there may be little remembrance of today by those who follow us and by those who follow them?
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Front Page, August 29, 2018
Mayor Tom Hartz signs off on the attempt to attack the latest creepingly quiet threat to the quality of Geneva Lake. The mayor signed a check for twenty thousand dollars to stop the spread of something most people living around Geneva Lake have never heard of.
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Front Page, August 8, 2018
“Save the Yerkes” is a phrase invented to unite a small collection of groups and as many citizens as possible to “save” the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay from extinction and even potential destruction. There is no question that, following the first attempt to shed itself of the Yerkes nearly ten years ago, the University of Chicago is still trying to sell it off and be rid of it.
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