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Man Taken into Custody for Double Shooting in the Liberty Grove Subdivision

Plainfield police have taken a 76-year-old man into custody for allegedly shooting his wife and 25-year-old stepdaughter in their Liberty Grove home this morning. The stepdaughter is in surgery at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora for a gunshot wound to the head. The wife, 62, is being treated at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center [...]

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Liberty Elementary families invited to the “carnival” at family literacy night

Liberty Elementary School students and families are invited to step right up to the “Liberty Literacy Carnival,” the school’s annual family reading event, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 22, 2011. The event will include a book fair and book exchange, sponsored by the Liberty PTA. There will also be a host of literacy-related activities and games [...]

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Liberty third graders learn economic principles in class program

Third grade students in Kelly Meyers’s class at Liberty Elementary School are learning basic economic principles through their new class behavior system. A system of “credits” and “debits” replaced the former red, yellow, and green, “stoplight” system used to alert students when their behavior was unacceptable. In class, each student has certain responsibilities ranging from [...]

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Liberty third grade class makes gains with guided math

For years Liberty Elementary School third grade teacher Kelly Meyers would stand up at the front of the classroom teaching a lesson and then would spend the rest of the time racing around to make sure all of her students understood. “With 30 students it was impossible to ensure that every student understood the lesson [...]

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Liberty E.S. fourth graders to celebrate a day of “matter”

Liberty Elementary School fourth grade students will focus their studies on what really “matters” by spending a day participating in a range of special activities dedicated to matter studies. About 150 fourth grade students will participate in the fifth annual “Matter Day” on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. The students will rotate between various activities from [...]

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Liberty students get cooking with author Aaron Reynolds

Award winning author Aaron Reynolds put Liberty students to work in the “kitchen” during his visits on Wednesday, November 3, 2010. During his three presentations, Reynolds picked student volunteers to help him whip up a batch of fresh salsa in honor of his book, “Chicks and Salsa.” The students joined Reynolds at the front of [...]

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