Taking the back way home from CVS took us though Wedgewood, with its severely depleted wetlands. That’s where I saw this blue heron standing in the shallows. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Wedgewood
Here are the photos taken by Crystal Lake Police at the corner of Wedgewood and Country Club Drive: The curve exists because Lakewood Village Trustee Hal McKenney got what would have been the extension of Country Club Road to Huntley … Continue reading
We out raking leaves and putting them in those stupid bags in our oak-hickory forest (minus one 80-foot hickory) in Lakewood when we noticed a helicopter seeming doing a pattern over Country Club Additions. I joked with my son the … Continue reading
So, we’re coming back from McHenry on the shortest day of the year. It’s about 5:30 and traffic is not moving well at the intersection of McHenry Avenue and Route 14. A marked police car with mars lights blazing pulls … Continue reading
So, we’re coming back from McHenry on the shortest day of the year. It’s about 5:30 and traffic is not moving well at the intersection of McHenry Avenue and Route 14. A marked police car with mars lights blazing pulls … Continue reading
Prior to the April municipal elections in Crystal Lake, I saw so many Shepley for Mayor signs on vacant property, I wrote a story called, “Developers for Shepley.” So, I wasn’t too surprised when the site on Huntley and Bard … Continue reading
Prior to the April municipal elections in Crystal Lake, I saw so many Shepley for Mayor signs on vacant property, I wrote a story called, “Developers for Shepley.” So, I wasn’t too surprised when the site on Huntley and Bard … Continue reading
967 Wedgewood Drive in Crystal Lake is going to take massive renovation to make it livable again. What you see is some photographs after the big mid-day fire. Take about 3 in the afternoon, the pictures show a completely gutted … Continue reading
967 Wedgewood Drive in Crystal Lake is going to take massive renovation to make it livable again. What you see is some photographs after the big mid-day fire. Take about 3 in the afternoon, the pictures show a completely gutted … Continue reading
With South Grade School letting out at noon Friday, lot’s of people saw the dark smoke from the fire south of the Wedgewood Subdivision. At least I think it was in Four Colonies. It might have been on the south … Continue reading
With South Grade School letting out at noon Friday, lot’s of people saw the dark smoke from the fire south of the Wedgewood Subdivision. At least I think it was in Four Colonies. It might have been on the south … Continue reading