Village of Lakewood’s first FREE outdoor movie, featuring the animated cartoon SING, Saturday July 21 st at Redtail Golf Club, 7900 Redtail Dr. Lakewood, IL 60014. Facility opens at 7:30 pm with hot dogs, burgers, popcorn, and refreshments available to purchase. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Red Tail Golf Club
Lakewood Village President Paul Serwatka continues to be one of the few elected officials willing to give his take on his government’s activities over the internet. His latest missive is below: Bringing you up-to-date on recent activities of our village … Continue reading
Last Sunday, Lakewood held a gathering at its RedTail Golf Club Despite the threat of rain, the Village of Lakewood rolled out the emergency equipment and set up the tents for what has become an annual time to gather at … Continue reading
Resident surrounding Lakewood’s RedTail Golf Course packed a Village Board meeting that was considering selling the property. The Village Board was intimidated and backed off on the idea. But that didn’t result in enough revenue coming in to solve the … Continue reading
Sunday, June 8th is the day that Lakewood is showing off its RedTail Golf Course and celebrating living in the village. Bring a can of food and get a free hot dog. That’s what the promotional flyer says. The press … Continue reading
The winter letter from Lakewood Village President Erin Smith: From the President Dear Neighbors: On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we want to extend our very best wishes for a joyous holiday season to each of you and your families. … Continue reading
The Lakewood Village Board decided not to put its RedTail Golf Course on the block Tuesday night. The meeting was packed with people living near the RedTail Golf Course. While the Board,with the exception of Gene Furey, had favored putting … Continue reading
If you sense from the headline that I don’t think highly of the former Lakewood, now RedTail Golf Course, that would be correct. For the better part of twenty years our tax bill in Lakewood has included money to pay … Continue reading
In the quarterly newsletter from the Lakewood, Village President Erin Smith reports that her Board wants to sell the golf course that cost so many of us an extra $500 a year in real estate taxes because revenues were rarely … Continue reading
David McSweeney knows how to pick ’em. And Jack Franks has been a master of gaining publicity for virtually his entire 14-year legislative career. McSweeney came up with the idea to reform the alternative revenue bond process and had a … Continue reading
Part 2 of the Chicago Tribune said about Lakewood’s alternative revenue bond purchase of what is not called RedTail Golf Club: Lakewood is featured as one of the villages “where bets backfired on taxpayers…where taxpayers should have been protected form … Continue reading
On January 6, 2013, right on the top of the Sunday Chicago Tribune, there was an expose that should send warning flares up about the alternative revenue bonds that the majority of the McHenry County College Board seem set to … Continue reading
Lakewood Village President Erin Smith sent out the following letter to her constituents in the fall village newsletter. FROM THE PRESIDENT As we bid a fond farewell to summer, it’s appropriate to review what was accomplished during the past three … Continue reading
My fellow residents: Sorry I have been away so long. Tom Hanks asked me to go for a plane ride and we all know what happened next. Can you say “Wilson”? Since I have not spoken to you for the … Continue reading
A last day of May letter from Lakewood Village Trustee Ken Santowski: Fellow residents: Well here it is the last day of May and finally we are seeing some changes. Yes, I am talking about the weather, also. Earlier this … Continue reading
No initiation fees. That’s what the post card I got today at my non-Turnberry Lakewood home said. Just spend $355 a a month, if you join on your own, or $580 a month for the whole family. Tennis courts included, … Continue reading
Lakewood’s Village Trustee is the only municipal official I know that send regular reports of his take on village meetings to his constituents. Here is his latest missive: Greetings from another planet: January 31, 2011 Each year I resolve to … Continue reading
Here’s the latest missive delivered in the mail to Lakewood residents: From the President On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I want to wish you and your families a Happy New Year. As a community, we face many of … Continue reading
6 AM New Year’s Day the Woodstock Fire Protection District took over the manning of the Lakewood Fire Department. Although the phrase “economies of scale” was not mentioned, there was talk of saving the money needed to pay a fire … Continue reading
Taxpayers complained about the golf course tax throughout the 1990’s. It was the approximately $500 a year property tax that I and other village residents paid that sensitized me to non-referendum bonds. At a village board meeting I was told … Continue reading