Thanks to Black Diamond, area folks can listen to a free concert at the Crystal Lake Main Beach on Saturday night. Bad Medicine will be playing. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Crystal Lake Park District
Tuesday afternoon the Crystal Lake Kiwanis, Park District and Public Library dedicated a Little Free Library at the Nature Center on the eastern side of Veterans Acres. It sits at the top of the hill off North Williams Street. The … Continue reading
Both McHenry County College and the Crystal Lake Park District are in the process of buying land in the Crystal Lake area. Here’s the comparison: $1,000,000 for 20 acres = $50,000 per acre from McHenry County College $625,000 for 27 … Continue reading
A press release from the Crystal Lake Park District about a 27-acre property in Lake in the Hills across Ackman Road from Lakewood’s Lou Malnati’s Pizzari proposed for purchase: The Crystal Lake Park District Board of Commissioners is excited to … Continue reading
Back when Crystal Lake Park Board members wanted to talk among themselves without violating the Open Meetings Act, they decided to increase the size of the board from five to seven members. A referendum was proposed and passed for a … Continue reading
Woodscreek Park on the south side Ackmann Road in Crystal Lake is set for a makeover. As described by Planner Ann Viger, “The grant is for $400,000 toward a $1 million project to renovate Woodscreek Park in 2014. “It is … Continue reading
There remain two vacancies on the seven-member Crystal Lake Park Board after write-in candidate Michele Hartwig for only 17 votes. To win a seat, Hartwig had to get as many votes as signatures she would have had to gather to … Continue reading
Five seats are up at the Crystal Lake park Board in April’s election. Terms are expiring for Deborah Gallagher Jerry Sullivan Angel Collins Caroline Bachour-Chemaly Thomas Aquilina But there are only three people running for the Park Board: Angel Collins … Continue reading
Today we are looking at Park Districts with territory in McHenry County to find out if any are close to their maximum rate limits. The source of this information is the Tax Rate page of the McHenry County Clerk’s web … Continue reading
Between this week and last the Crystal Lake Park Board seems to have undergone a collective brain transplant. After sitting through an explanation of the tax levy process last week, I was convinced that taxpayers were going to be subjected … Continue reading
Multiple sources have told McHenry County Blog that the McHenry County State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi’s Office is making contact with the three newly-elected members of the County Board to advise them of the conflict of interest that would exist if … Continue reading
Thursday night there was a workshop at the Crystal Lake Park Board to discuss the tax levying process. The presentation assumed that the Board wanted to extract as much money as possible from the taxpayers: Take the entire amount allowed … Continue reading
Two Crystal Lake and one Huntley politician will be giving up their seats on the city council, park and school boards in the near future. Carolyn Schofield, who is in her second term on the Crystal Lake City Council, and … Continue reading
While voting at Crystal Lake’s Main Beach House (thank you Park District officials for putting democracy in front of renting out the room for karati!), a confused young man was pointed to me. He wanted to know whether the precinct … Continue reading
I don’t know if many of the participants in and spectators of the Chicago Junior Rowing Championships regatta stay overnight in Crystal Lake, but there surely were a lot of cars in the parking lot, plus the overflow flood plain … Continue reading
Looking for mountain men. But the competition planned is described as a “frontier survival race.” Well, not exactly, but think Indian skills like hatchet throwing and archery. How about lumberjack stuff? Not singing, which is what came to mind I … Continue reading
Unless you have stepped on one or more of the Zebra Mussels or live in the weed-infested West End of Crystal Lake, the lake is in good shape. That was what I drew from Crystal Lake Park District presentations by … Continue reading
The Wheaton Park District snagged a $2.4 million grant from State government to buy an old Sears store. (Where the State found the spare $50 million for park purposes is a legitimate question that won’t be explored here.) The old … Continue reading
Northwest Herald reporter Brett Rowland reported Sunday that the Crystal Lake Park Board is planning to replace the current wall of a building. It’s forty years old and, well, not good enough. Read his article to find out why. Forty … Continue reading
Although they are not going to be put in the mail until Friday, McHenry County Treasurer Bill LeFew’s web site has tax bills on the internet already. At least they were when I tried about an hour ago. I’m getting … Continue reading