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ALAW Presents County Board Votes on Federal Stimulus Bonds

October 12, 2010 By: Cal Skinner Category: ALAW, Alliance for Land Agriculture and Water, Baseball, Baseball Stadium, Baseball Team, Federal Simulus Bonds, Federal Stimulus Package, K-Nines, Lakewood, Minor League Baseball, Wonder Lake, Woodstock

The setting sun reflects off windows on the east side of Wonder Lake October 3, 2010. The County Board authorized Federal Stimulus Loan money to dredge the shallow lake.

The Alliance for Land, Agriculture and Water has made votes by McHenry County Board members up for election available to the public.

So, if the local newspapers didn’t ask the question you think is important, you might find some direction from actual votes the board members cast in Woodstock.

The weakness, obviously, is that challengers aren’t in the matrix.

Yesterday, land use votes were published on McHenry County Blog.

Today the votes on how the Federal Stimulus Bonds should be allocated.

Three projects are tracked,

  • Lakewood’s SportsPlex
  • the K-Nines Woodstock minor league baseball stadium and
  • dredging Wonder Lake

Strangely, the county board members could not find any manufacturing firms who wanted to borrow money with Federal taxpayers subsidzing 25% of the interest.

Click to enlarge.


Previously on the McHenry County Board, Nick Provenzano and John Jung were not serving when these votes were taken.

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Woodstock Baseball Team Rolls Out Name, Logo

July 24, 2009 By: Cal Skinner Category: Baseball Team, K-Nines, Woodstock

McHenry County Blog reported on August 9, 2007, the Northwest Herald seemed to have made an arrangement with baseball promoters to run a team naming contest.

That’s what McHenry County College minutes said.

I see that the contest started the same day that the Northwest Herald sued me.

Somehow I missed it, being on vacation two weeks since then and all.

The contest is now over and “McHenry County K-Nines” is the name.

Generic mascot “Woody” will undoubtedly be cheaper than paying royalties to the Charles Schultz heirs for Woodstock, which would have been my choice.

Already, I can see area police dogs and their trainers at the opening game.

I took a look at the team web site and noticed that STAR 105 and Y 103.0 radio stations are “sponsors,” but the Northwest Herald is not.

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