Gus Philpott’s Excellent Question

In an article on his Woodstock Advocate entitled, When did Trustees decide to sue Supervisor? Philpott’s opening paragraphs are just intriguing: In an update to this morning’s article about the Grafton Township’s Trustees’ filing a lawsuit against Township Supervisor Linda … Continue reading

Dorr Township Not Like Grafton, Supervisor Says

“Filled to capacity” is how one person in attendance last night at the Dorr Township meeting. The Dorr Township Hall meeting room is small, so that meant about 25 residents were present. The biggest news was that Supervisor Bob Pierce … Continue reading

Grafton Township Separation of Powers Case Goes to Court

Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore took her dispute with Township Trustees Betty Zirk, Gerald McMahon, Rob LaPorta and Barbara Murphy to court Wednesday. She’s in civil court seeking injunctive relief to regain her role as chief executive of the township. … Continue reading

Downsizing the Grafton Township Supervisor’s Office – Part 2

“If you want to remove me from office, do it officially,” Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore challenged her board of trustees is where our story about Tuesday’s Grafton Township meeting begins.  (Here is Part 1.) “You’ve proven yourself incompetent,” Trustee … Continue reading

Downsizing the Grafton Township Supervisor’s Office – Part 1

Another night at the Huntley Park District complex, another contentious meeting. But, unlike the previous meetings, the real reason for the conflict—Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore’s decisive role in killing the $5 million (including interest) new township hall—didn’t come up … Continue reading

Grafton Township Board Strips Supervisor of Duties, Equipment, Files

I’d forgotten how boring budget committee mark-ups could be. That was the first order of business at the Grafton Township meeting Monday night. Held at the Huntley Park District headquarters (the old high school that local taxpayers have had the … Continue reading

A Request that “Cadman” Email Some Information

In the soon-to-disappear Northwest Herald comments on its story about the Grafton Township Trustees’ hiring Huntley Village Trustee Pam Fender to basically do all the work that Supervisor Linda Moore is charged with performing now, a gentleman calling himself “Cadman” … Continue reading

More Funny Business in Grafton Township

You gotta love the infighting among Republicans in Grafton Township. Supervisor Linda Moore posted video of the last township meeting. My speakers are so poor I had a hard time hearing what people were saying in the first segment, but … Continue reading

Leitmotif of the Grafton Township Kangaroo Court – Part 3

Yesterday and the day before, McHenry County Blog chronicled what the Grafton Township trustees said about the John Rossi Township Board new town hall debacle. You remember, illegally committing taxpayers to repay over $5 million in principal and interest for … Continue reading

Leitmotif of the Grafton Township Kangaroo Court – Part 2

Yesterday, McHenry County Blog started outlining what was mentioned about the court-determined illegal actions of the prior board–three of whose members were re-elected–in notes of the 7:30 PM to 12:15 AM Grafton Township board meeting last Thursday night. The topic … Continue reading

Leitmotif of the Grafton Township Kangaroo Court – Part 1

There was a leitmotif during the almost five-hour meeting of the Grafton Township Board on Thursday night. Not too light, though. More like an elephant plunging through the local Republican Party, setting up all Grafton Township incumbents for defeat at … Continue reading

Paying Grafton Township’s Lawyers…Or Not

It appears that the four-member Grafton Township Board majority got its act together Wednesday night with the help of newly hired attorney Ancel Glick partner Keri-Lyn Krafthefer. Left on the losing end of all contested votes was Grafton Township Supervisor … Continue reading

Grafton Township Trustees Boycott Meeting

Four township officials, including all the full-timers, attended the Grafton Township meeting at Faith Community Church on Algonquin Road, but the four part-timers boycotted it. Of the members of the township board, only Supervisor Linda Moore attended. Barbara Murphy, Robert … Continue reading

Grafton Township Considering Sale of Township Hall to Its Road District

At the last board meeting of Grafton Township, the one in which constantly interrupting, newly-elected board member Gerry McMahon was censured, there were comments from Trustee Barbara Murphy (the one seen on the far left of the table) that may … Continue reading

Take This Job and Shove It

If you play this song while you are reading this article, it would be appropriate. Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job and Shove It” pretty much sums up the message Crystal Lake attorney Joe Gottemoller gave to the Grafton Township Board … Continue reading

The Skunk, the Meerkats and the Elephant – Part 2

“This is nothing, absolutely nothing,” Northwest Herald reporter Amber Krosel quotes newly-sworn in Grafton Township Trustee Gerry McMahon at Thursday night’s meeting. This was the same day that McMahon and his fellow trustees were given their third McHenry County Court … Continue reading