A communication from Dan Eichholz, Executive Director of the Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers: Response from Aggregate Producers to Pollution Claims by Attorney General This information is in response to your 7/24/18 blog post titled ”Attorney General Cites McHenry County … Continue reading
According to the Better Government Association, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency last year issued violation notices to the following McHenry County area quarry landfills after soil testing showed higher-than-allowed levels of chemicals and metals. The levels are in place to protect … Continue reading
Here is what unincorporated Spring Grove Resident Drew Knobloch told the McHenry County Board at its September meeting: Public comment, September My wife and I moved to McHenry county in 2015 because we were looking for a quieter life with … Continue reading
Spring Grove residents who live just outside the village have appeared at the last two meetings of the McHenry County Board seeking help in stopping a Thelen Sand & Gravel plan to dig up to the edge of their homes. … Continue reading
At Tuesday’s meeting of the McHenry County Board, citizens from the Spring Grove-Fox Lake area appeared to object to additional gravel pits in their area. One of those who spoke mentioned the Thelen Sand and Gravel company. Hearing the name … Continue reading
In the continuing saga of Cary’s love affair with Meyer Materials’ gravel pit next to the Fox Trails Subdivision, the Village Board voted on the gravel pit’s owners side last night. The blog “Stop the Pit in Cary” lays out … Continue reading
Meyer Material is set to ask for a three-year extension on its gravel mining agreement at 7:30 when the Cary Village Board meets Tuesday. The pit is right next to Fox Trails Subdivision. Here is an email alerting folks to … Continue reading
Because horse riding had just been banned at the old Lake Defiance, now Moraine Hills, it occurred to me that it could go in a Gravel Gertie State Park. Snow mobilers weren’t having trouble finding places to ride, but they … Continue reading
During the first month of publishing McHenry County Blog in 2005, I wrote the following about what could be done with the gravel pits in Algonquin Township. Since then, of course, Crystal Lake has used higher sales taxes and a … Continue reading
That’s what Meyer Gravel Pit watch dog Bruce Janu wants to know. He sent an email to those wanting to follow the issue Monday morning: “Good morning friends and neighbors, “So tomorrow is a Village Board Meeting and, according to … Continue reading
I continue to be amazed at how McHenry County Blog is used by people as a research tool. Sometimes comments are left on articles that were written a long time ago. Here’s a commentary from someone who lives on McConnell … Continue reading
Thanks to Gus Philpott’s “Woodstock Advocate” for pointing me to the Seneca Township web site NoForPit opposing the Merryman gravel pit zoning. The opponents have this update from Judge Maureen McIntyre’s courtroom: Merryman Gravel Pit permit DENIED for the 3rd … Continue reading
There’s no visible movement on the Woodstock baseball stadium planned for Route 14 between Woodstock and Centegra’s Woodstock hospital, but the operation that is going to finance the land has begun. Driving on Lily Pond Road between McConnell Road and … Continue reading
Last Friday, the Chicago Tribune ran an article by Andrea Brown about how Dundee Township has a 160-acre mined out gravel pit. That reminds me of a hint dropped by Ken Koehler back in 2001 when I got so fed … Continue reading
Mayor Aaron Shepley has weighed in on the Crystal Lake Planning and Zoning Board’s unanimous rejection of McHenry County College’s baseball stadium and fitness complex. You might have thought he would be asking, “What happened? Instead, I think I could … Continue reading
Mayor Aaron Shepley has weighed in on the Crystal Lake Planning and Zoning Board’s unanimous rejection of McHenry County College’s baseball stadium and fitness complex. You might have thought he would be asking, “What happened? Instead, I think I could … Continue reading
I admire the creativity of “Heck of a Guy” Crystal Lake blogger Allan Showalter. He looked at the Cary gravel pits new web site www.CaryIllinois.org and wrote another story–Directions to CaryIllinois.org–about it. I looked at the Interstate directional signs on … Continue reading
I admire the creativity of “Heck of a Guy” Crystal Lake blogger Allan Showalter. He looked at the Cary gravel pits new web site www.CaryIllinois.org and wrote another story–Directions to CaryIllinois.org–about it. I looked at the Interstate directional signs on … Continue reading
Yesterday, I wrote an article on the Cary gravel pit opponents’ new web site. They have picked up the name www.caryillinois.org. How about that? It sounds like the official web site for Cary, Illinois, doesn’t it? It’s not. It is … Continue reading
Yesterday, I wrote an article on the Cary gravel pit opponents’ new web site. They have picked up the name www.caryillinois.org. How about that? It sounds like the official web site for Cary, Illinois, doesn’t it? It’s not. It is … Continue reading
