Hometown advantage

DIXON - At the start of a new school year, most junior high students are concerned about how they'll fit in with the people around them - as are many of the teachers. One of the newest teachers at Reagan Middle School may find that a hometown advantage makes that process just a little bit easier. Kelly Henkel grew up in Dixon, attended St. Mary School, then Newman Central Catholic High School in Sterling. He received his undergraduate degree in history with a minor in education from North Central College in Naperville, then did a year as a student-teacher at Naperville North High School before taking a full-time assignment. "I never looked back," Henkel said of his decision to teach, made at the beginning of college. That decision was reaff