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This Friday, Naperville's hidden talent will have a chance to shine as 11 high school bands take the stage at Central Park in the 2010 Battle of the Bands, sponsored by the Naperville Park District Youth Ambassadors.

The Naperville Park District, DuPage Children's Museum and Naper Settlement are partnering to offer the On-the-Go PLUS Pass, which offers one-time admission to Centennial Beach and the Millennium Carillon in Moser Tower and a 20-minute paddleboat ride for up to four people in addition to admission to DuPage Children's Museum and Naper Settlement. The PLUS version sells for $27.

Exchange Club members from around the state will meet in Naperville next month for the 2010 Lincolnland District Conference.

The Indian Prairie School District 204 board OK'd a plan for middle school music technique classes, which one board member likened to giving music parents the same opportunity as athletic parents to allow children to participate "out of their own pocketbooks." The plan calls for students in an instrumental activity to pay $108 to help fund the cost of bringing back some of the music staff that previously had been laid off.

Prosecutors pushed to keep evidence in the Drew Peterson case under wraps. But after the way a batch of recently filed court papers were treated, the accused killer's lawyer wants to know why they bothered. "If that's the way they're going to handle it, perhaps we should open up the whole file and let everyone see everything," attorney Joel Brodsky said.

Exactly three months after negotiations began, Indian Prairie School District 204 has reached a tentative agreement with its teachers for a new contract.

Nearly half of the 145 teachers laid off by Indian Prairie School District 204 will return to the classroom next year, and that number will likely grow to include more.

Not even the heavy blanket of cloud cover could keep out the light. The yearly candlelight vigil at Linden Oaks Hospital on Monday evening again honored both the spirit of those recovering from eating disorders, and the memory of those who couldn't overcome them. Several hundred people gathered at the facility, on the western edge of the Edward Hospital campus, to hear stories of strength and courage, love and loss. "There is light in the hope of recovery," said Dr. Maria Rago, clinical director of the hospital's eating disorders program. "Even if you can't see it, it's there."

The fourth of five men charged in the 2008 drug-related slaying of a Naperville man was found guilty Monday in that case. Tyrell Jackson, who fired the shot that mortally wounded John D. Rosales, was convicted of first-degree murder. That followed a one-day bench trial before Judge Richard C. Schoenstedt in Will County Circuit Court in Joliet.

A neighborhood garage sale this weekend will support the Max Lacewell Foundation, now in the final stages of becoming a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to funding meaningful research into a cure for DIPG.

A group of citizens representing the local action group Citizens for Healthy Development appeared at a meeting of the Lisle Village Board on Monday night to continue to put pressure on officials regarding the proposed Navistar project, which has polarized segments of the village for months.

It may be an era of shrinking dollars for education, but some Naperville Central students think there is one teacher the district can't do without.

Louis Sachar, author of "The Cardturner," will sign books at 7 p.m. at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville.