The Awful FRG Train-School Bus Accident

October 25, 1995–twenty years ago. What an awful day. That was the day of the Fox River Grove school bus-Metra train collusion. Substitute driver unfamiliar with the route. Mercifully, I remained blissfully ignorant of the morning crash until about noon. … Continue reading

Zane Seipler Amends His Call for a Special Prosecutor for Sheriff Keith Nygren

One might have thought the campaign ended with the Republican primary victory of McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren over Zane Seipler, the deputy Nygren never wants to see in the Sheriff’s Department again. But Seipler’s blog, McHenry County Sheriff’s Department … Continue reading

Dick Tracy Wrist Radio Technology Launching Thursday in McHenry County

The idea of a wrist radio transmitter to help find missing people will become a reality starting April 2nd. Soon-to-be elected (because she is unopposed) Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore re-surfaced the concept last year. Her Huntley precinct contains much … Continue reading

Community Investment Award in Crystal Lake to Good Shepherd Hospital for Intermediate Care Center across from Pingree Road Metra Station

Because my brother-in-law Dr. Joe Giangrasso (seen above with Dr. Liz Horvath) heads up the Emergency Room operation at Good Shepherd Hospital, I got advance notice last summer of his department’s new facility in Crystal Lake across from Metra’s Pingree … Continue reading

McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren Issues Statement About Human LoJack System

Maybe the following press release from McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren will give the Northwest Herald to publicize what I likened to a Dick Tracy wrist radio device to help police find missing Alzheimer and Autistic residents in my story … Continue reading

McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren Issues Statement About Human LoJack System

Maybe the following press release from McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren will give the Northwest Herald to publicize what I likened to a Dick Tracy wrist radio device to help police find missing Alzheimer and Autistic residents in my story … Continue reading

Of Monuments of Remembrance – Part 1

I haven’t written anything on the Northern Illinois massacre beyond my being astounded by NIU’s president and police chief assertion of satisfaction with the way things went after the mass murder and how my grandfather helped stop an early 1940’s … Continue reading

Of Monuments of Remembrance – Part 1

I haven’t written anything on the Northern Illinois massacre beyond my being astounded by NIU’s president and police chief assertion of satisfaction with the way things went after the mass murder and how my grandfather helped stop an early 1940’s … Continue reading