A press release from the Crystal Lake Police Department: Bus Driver Arrested for DUI On Wednesday, May 2, 2018, at approximately 7:40 am, Crystal Lake Police were dispatched to the parking lot of Hannah-Beardsley Middle School, 515 East Crystal Lake Avenue, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Bus
Included in Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Andrew Gasser’s suit against Township Clerk Karen Lukasik, former Road Commissioner Bob Miller and Anna May Miller, the wife who worked for him while he was in office, is a request that Lukasik be … Continue reading
Now Algonquin Township Clerk Karen Lukasik worked for former Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller as a bus driver from the November, 2016, until March, 2017, about two months before Miller’s term expired. Hired just three months before the February, … Continue reading
Over the last two days I’ve shared the show that both Democrats and Republicans put on in the Lake in the Hills Parade Saturday. Today let’s look at the Lake in the Hills elected officials, elected in non-partisan elections, as … Continue reading
Take a look at these minutes from the McHenry County Board’s Transportation Committee. The recommended resolution regarding Pace bus service was approved at the last Board meeting. Of interest is the large subsidy for each person who uses the service–$15 … Continue reading
Pace, the largely suburban public bus company, has released routes which it would like to run throughout the six-county area and beyond. That’s the map above. Within McHenry County, Pace would run one line from Waukegan through McHenry, down the … Continue reading
A press release from Lee Jennings, Nunda Township Supervisor: Nunda Township partners with McRide Crystal Lake, IL – October 6, 2014 Nunda Township Supervisor’s Office has joined with Nunda Township Road District to expand Nunda’s current bus program. Starting October … Continue reading
Although Sheriff Keith Nygren spent about a half an hour last Tuesday unsuccessfully trying to convince the McHenry County Board that the taxpayers were not losing money on his beloved contract to house illegal aliens, he is still planning to … Continue reading
McHenry County Auditor Pam Palmer conducted an audit of the grant to the Nunda Township Road Commissioner for Senior Bus Service. Since County government was responsible for awarding the money, it seems appropriate that the Auditor should see if it … Continue reading
A press release from School District 300: Proposed cut to transportation funding concerning to D300 community The State of Illinois provides “categories” of education funding to school districts, such as transportation special education bilingual education. The state mandates that the district … Continue reading
A press release from the Grafton Township Supervisor: Village of Huntley to Vote on Agreement with Grafton Township for Senior Transportation Supervisor Linda Moore is pleased to announce that the Village of Huntley will be voting on the Intergovernmental Agreement … Continue reading
Not likely a President would give equal billing to a Congressman, but this press release from Joe Walsh did bring a smile to my lips: Rep. Walsh Invites President Obama to Joint-Town Hall Meeting McHENRY – Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-08) … Continue reading
Thursday night, the Grafton Township Trustees rejected Supervisor Linda Moore’s selection of Rockford’s John Nelson as Township Attorney. Little surprise there, since Nelson’s representation of Moore led to the dismissal of both the Trustees’ favored law firm Ancel Glink, but … Continue reading
Not only was there a man following a child home and circling around to drive past the home again in Huntley Wednesday, but on last Friday there was an attempted kidnapping of a girl after she got off a school … Continue reading
Here’s a press release from the Huntley Police Department about what sounds like a Huntley High School freshman girl who was lured through the internet to run off with an almost 19-year old boy from Florida. Charges Filed in Juvenile … Continue reading
One might have thought the campaign ended with the Republican primary victory of McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren over Zane Seipler, the deputy Nygren never wants to see in the Sheriff’s Department again. But Seipler’s blog, McHenry County Sheriff’s Department … Continue reading
News today is that a duck (a bus that also acts like a boat or as AP puts it “an amphibious sightseeing boat”) lost power in the Philadelphia harbor, was hit by a city-owned sludge barge and sank. Two passengers … Continue reading
McHenry County Blog has some thoughtful thinkers. One has posted the comment below under the last article. Certainly people are talking about abolishing Grafton Township. Two trustees have told me that might even favor the idea. I found one … Continue reading
I made what I thought was a pretty simple request of PACE, the suburban bus company which also runs paratransit in the City of Chicago because the CTA is too incompetent to do so. Looking for how high the subsidies … Continue reading