Dave Wilson

Dec 3, 2024 | shawlocal.com | Dave Wilson

Joliet Township High School District 204 is proposing a $100 million property tax levy to operate in 2025 – a 4.9 percent increase over last year’s $95 million tax levy. The annul tax levy is a formula for school district budgets based on inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI – 3.4 percent last year), estimated equalized assessed value (EAV) of existing properties, and anticipated growth of new properties within district boundaries.

Nov 28, 2024 | shawlocal.com | Dave Wilson

If you’re not one for the post-Thanksgiving Day bustling shopping crowds this weekend, here is a quieter, more thoughtful alternative. Instead, head out for a calm, curiosity-filled excursion to a local museum gift shop this weekend for Museum Store Sunday. There, you can pick up “broad assortments of highly curated, unique, mission-specific gifts” for loved ones on your list, according to the Museum Store Association.

Nov 4, 2024 | shawlocal.com | Dave Wilson

Pilcher Park, an evergreen staple of Joliet residents’ ecological consciousness, has long been suffering from a seemingly unusual malady: It has too many trees. Excessive shade caused by overgrown forest growth has stunted the growth of Pilcher Park foliage since the 1830s, said Matt Evans, managing ecologist of woodlands at the Chicago Botanic Garden. But help is on the way.

Dec 5, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Graham Reid |Dave Wilson

Fatherhood has softened singer/producer Sampha Sisay (left) while Dave Wilson delivers an album with multi-layered energy to burn. Photos / Getty Images & Nick George CreativeLahaiby Sampha Singer/producer Sampha Sisay’s 2017 debut Process won Britain’s Mercury Prize but, despite impressive production and despondent honesty, it was a sometimes downbeat affair dealing with loss and hurt. Sampha – London-born to parents from Sierra Leone – was already known to illustrious peers.

Aug 11, 2023 | newspub.live | Dave Wilson

A few weeks ago, we received a plain-looking parcel that looked like junk mail. But we opened it anyway. Inside was a letter informing us that LS Power Grid Maine, a private investment firm based in New York, was planning to run a massive 345-kilovolt transmission line a few hundred feet behind our newly built home, obliterating the field and woods in which we work, walk and educate our two home-schooled kids.