When Wonder Lake resident Kim Doran, owner of Pixie Dawgs and the former Church Street Café, was looking for another brick-and-mortar site to launch Miss Bella’s Sweets and Eats, she said she felt like the pairing was kismet. After catering a food truck event at Operation Wild Horse in Bull Valley as a fundraiser, board […]
When Hebron resident Steve Vole saw danger, he ran toward it, forgetting his own safety. And he saved a man from near-certain death. “I’ve always believed that you just try to help,” Vole said. “It is just what you do.” Vole’s father, Ernie, opened Ernie’s Wrecker Service in 1956 in Halfday, now Vernon Hills, and […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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