Here’s my best effort to find out who filed for village and city offices in McHenry County’s thirty municipalities. Most who didn’t file last week probably waited until late Monday afternoon. Why? Best place on the ballot is first. With … Continue reading
Should have caught this sooner. The Village of Bull Valley and the River East Public Library District are asking voter permission to bump their tax rates way up. Look at the ballot question in Bull Valley first: Bull Valley is … Continue reading
A press release from Dr. Anne Majewski, McHenry County Coroner about the Bull Valley death of accident victim Aaron Sutherland, age 22: … Continue reading
There is probably more than one place on Route 120 that Bull Valley Police use to raise revenue for the sales tax-starved municipality. But twice this month I have seen a car using Chatham Lane, a street from a subdivision … Continue reading
Municipal elections were last spring. The next ones are not until next spring. Perhaps that explains why the City of Crystal Lake decided to hike taxes so much this year–a non-election year. There will go up 9.8%. McHenry, on the … Continue reading
A press release from Emily Bull Valley Trustee Emily Berendt: The Bull Valley Dog Park: Opening Soon! Applications are available now for Charter Memberships and annual resident permits to the new Bull Valley Dog Park. A dog park permit would … Continue reading
Lots of pipelines run throughout McHenry County. About a week ago, work began in a field two hundred feet north of the Boone Creek Golf Course on Mason Hill Road and about 500 feet from Boone Creek. The problem is … Continue reading
Resurrection Center in Bull Valley ran into trouble after state-backed borrowing to build an addition. The Catholic order that owned it put it up for sale. After several missteps, Loyola University purchased the property. It was re-named the Loyola University … Continue reading
Attorney Robert Hanlon, known for taking on powerful interests, has pretty much declared war on the Village of Bull Valley. The immediate motivation is three of his friends getting speeding tickets on the way to his home, which is located … Continue reading
That’s what the Chicago Tribune is reporting this morning. So the worst scenario, that some Mexican cartel was involved in the Bull Valley skull incident, apparently wasn’t the case. Still the question remains why someone would toss something of value, … Continue reading
A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Rockford: TENTH NORTHERN ILLINOIS RESIDENT SENTENCED ON FEDERAL DRUG CHARGES ROCKFORD — A Cary, Ill. man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Rockford for his role in a drug conspiracy … Continue reading
The Fleming Road Alliance reveals that 96% of Fleming Road is on private property in this email to county board members: To: Ken Koehler, Chair, McHenry County Board; County Board Members, From: Fleming Road Alliance, Re: Update on Fleming Road … Continue reading
Saturday Fleming Road was dedicated as a Scenic Drive. First there was a Pledging of Allegiance to the Flag. Speaking at the event was District 5 McHenry County Board member Tina Hill, who read Robert Frost’s “The Road Less Traveled,” … Continue reading
Because Lakewood Village Board members decided to require residents to pay off the last year of the golf course purchased the year before the Property Tax Cap went into effect, Lakewood has the highest percentage tax rate increase of any … Continue reading
This is the time of year to take a leisurely drive in Bull Valley. Obeying the speed limit, if in the village, of course, because traffic tickets are a main source of revenue for the municipality. In fact Bull … Continue reading
The sign invites people to the Fleming Road Alliance’s 1 PM Saturday Celebration. The following press release found in a McHenry County email explains a celebration being held Saturday afternoon by those who don’t want county government to turn Fleming … Continue reading
That’s what Fleming Road resident Lisa Rhoades told the McHenry County Department of Transportation Tuesday. Her comments follow: The State of Illinois has provided us with the Vision of Transportation for the 21st Century: The cornerstone words are Livable and … Continue reading
Since opponents of McHenry County’s proposal to improve Fleming Road through Bull Valley have made it easy to post what they said in a public hearing this week, I’ll post some of their comments here. This is a road that … Continue reading
At least in traffic tickets issued. The Chicago Tribune took a look at the number of traffic tickets issued by municipalities throughout the metropolitan area and discovered that tiny Bull Valley issued the most. More than 400 per officer. 437, … Continue reading
If you happened to be on the west side of Wonder Lake, watch out for the Bull Valley Police. Apparently, the village is so pressed for revenue that its policemen have started issuing tickets to cars come from the north … Continue reading
