It’s really hard to believe that my in-laws, Vince and Lonnie Giangrasso, have been married 70 years. Lonnie Ropele (Orlanda on the voter registration rolls) was born and raised in coal country in Southern Illinois. Her parents were from northern … Continue reading
Category Archives: Joe Giangrasso
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
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
At the intersection of Routes 31 and 176, two health care systems have dueling billboards. I noticed the one on Route 176 first. It faces east, so commuters returning to Crystal Lake can read it. It’s advertising Advocate Good Shepherd’s … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
An extension of Good Shepherd Hospital has opened in Crystal Lake across from the Pingree Road Metra commuter station. You can drive straight across the street from the Metra parking lot into the new Immediate Care Center. It’s at 525 … Continue reading
An extension of Good Shepherd Hospital has opened in Crystal Lake across from the Pingree Road Metra commuter station. You can drive straight across the street from the Metra parking lot into the new Immediate Care Center. It’s at 525 … Continue reading
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
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