Look what the Village of Huntley announced today: We received a report from MDC Environmental Services that Mother Nature is winning the battle today. Due to the subzero temperatures, they are having issues with the diesel fuel gelling up in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Garbage
A press release from the Village of Lakewood: Garbage and Recycling Delays MDC Environmental Services has informed the Village of Lakewood that this week’s garbage and recycling collection will be postponed by one day to Saturday, January 21, 2017. This … Continue reading
Every time I see Chicago’s having financial problems I think of garbage collection. I think of three men on a truck. Then, I think of how garbage trucks in Crystal Lake have one man (except for picking up bags of … Continue reading
The McHenry County Board is expanding its waste hauling aggregation bidding areas. The two part of unincorporated McHenry County that are going through the approval process now are the Crystal Lake Manor and an area near Fox Lake. Economies of … Continue reading
Allowing McHenry County government and municipalities to seek referendum approval to purchase electricity for homes and businesses makes sense. Especially since Jack Franks, Mike Tryon and Pam Althoff voted to raise electric rates. (Dan Duffy voted, “No.”) Something similar is … Continue reading
The Super Bowl has a Green Police-themed ad that reminds me so much of what Rockford used to do. The garbage men went through the trash and, if they found nothing that could be re-cycled, the homeowner got a prize. … Continue reading
What was the McHenry man’s name who used to clean up McHenry’s Boone Creek every year? [A reader identifies the man as Anton Rebel.] He used to write lots of letters to the Northwest Herald. It was he I thought … Continue reading
In Friday’s Northwest Herald is an article about the $23 million that the City of Crystal Lake is scheduled to haul in over a twenty-year period as a result of a proposed Waste Management garbage transfer station to be located … Continue reading