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Chicago Magazine ranked suburban schools. Here are the results for McHenry County grade schools: Here are the results of McHenry County high schools: The ranking methodology can be found here. … Continue reading
Category Archives: South Elementary School
The Crystal Lake City Council spent a huge chunk of change to stop the flooding of North Shore Drive. The total cost was $762,000 with State taxpayers kicking in $482,000 through the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. From driving … Continue reading
Bill Fetzner, the former Principal of South Grade School and most recently before his retirement in charge of buildings, died during surgery following a fall from a ladder at his home. Fetzner’s son Rob currently serves on the District 47 … Continue reading
The Northwest Herald’s Brett Rowland wrote a thought-provoking article published Sunday about how Crystal Lake Grade School District 47 has had fewer and fewer students after 2007. Down from 9,124 to 8,359. Down 765 students. So, there seems to be … Continue reading
I’m not sure it was really a graduation ceremony, but fifth graders at South Elementary School were in the auditorium getting recognized for various accomplishments. The last was for the recently departed Librarian Cheri Pearl. Her death this past spring … Continue reading
South School parent Paul Greenlee, whose family lives on Bennington, has forwarded my story about the Crystal Lake Police Department’s ticket writing “fenzy” (his word) to Mayor Aaron Shepley, the city council and District 47 board members. I thought you … Continue reading
Maybe it was because Mother’s Day was yesterday, but when I drove past South Elementary School in Crystal Lake this morning, there were no policemen ticketing cars the way there was two weeks ago for Donuts for Dads. Maybe there … Continue reading
Crystal Lake Police turned a warm and fuzzy breakfast of Dads and their children into a public relations disaster at South Elementary School two weeks ago tomorrow. Every year South Grade School, which my son attends, puts on a “Donuts … Continue reading
My ten year old made this for me half a life ago. He brought it home from school. Guess he was in first grade with Mrs. Gedzyk at South Elementary School in Crystal Lake. I’ve kept it on my wall. … Continue reading
My ten year old made this for me half a life ago. He brought it home from school. Guess he was in first grade with Mrs. Gedzyk at South Elementary School in Crystal Lake. I’ve kept it on my wall. … Continue reading
An email alert to parents came this afternoon at 1:33- Alert Name: South Power Outage Alert Type: General Complete Message: This morning, sections of South Elementary School were without electricity and consequently, had not heat due to an electrical short … Continue reading
An email alert to parents came this afternoon at 1:33- Alert Name: South Power Outage Alert Type: General Complete Message: This morning, sections of South Elementary School were without electricity and consequently, had not heat due to an electrical short … Continue reading
Captain America! He showed up at Crystal Lake’s South Elementary School on Halloween, of all days. He marched around the school with all the kids. I got this photograph in the hall. I think he was on the way to … Continue reading
Captain America! He showed up at Crystal Lake’s South Elementary School on Halloween, of all days. He marched around the school with all the kids. I got this photograph in the hall. I think he was on the way to … Continue reading
I still can’t get used to school starting in August. Wednesday was the first day of school in Crystal Lake. It was only a half a day, but how glorious was the weather. Monday parents met their kids’ teachers. School … Continue reading
I still can’t get used to school starting in August. Wednesday was the first day of school in Crystal Lake. It was only a half a day, but how glorious was the weather. Monday parents met their kids’ teachers. School … Continue reading
At the McHenry Marlins victory splash party, I saw an intriguing tee shirt about dodgeball. I have fond memories of playing dodgeball with Tommy Callahan, Stan Johnson, Bill Hill, Leroy Miller and Timmy (whose last name I can’t pull up, … Continue reading
At the McHenry Marlins victory splash party, I saw an intriguing tee shirt about dodgeball. I have fond memories of playing dodgeball with Tommy Callahan, Stan Johnson, Bill Hill, Leroy Miller and Timmy (whose last name I can’t pull up, … Continue reading
Hanging over the main entrance to Crystal Lake’s South Elementary School last week was a yellow banner with blue letters. It announces South SchoolCelebratesTV Turnoff Week No. The letters are all capitals: SOUTH SCHOOLCELEBRATESTV TURNOFF WEEK Of course, the radio … Continue reading
Hanging over the main entrance to Crystal Lake’s South Elementary School last week was a yellow banner with blue letters. It announces South SchoolCelebratesTV Turnoff Week No. The letters are all capitals: SOUTH SCHOOLCELEBRATESTV TURNOFF WEEK Of course, the radio … Continue reading