Cary Grove Countryside (IL) back issues from March 2000:
Village loses foundation in Stauffer, Keller
Mar 02, 2000; ... Cary officials know there is no way to replace the 64 years of experience that retired with Gary Stauffer and Vern Keller last week. Stauffer worked for Cary for the last 35 years. He served on the Cary Police Department and was the only streets superintendent in village ...
Sixteen vie for Miss Cary, Miss Fox River Grove crowns
Mar 02, 2000; ... Two young ladies will win on the same night as the Miss Cary and Miss Fox River Grove pageants are combined for the first time in years. The pageants will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday Johnson in the Cary-Grove High School auditorium. Both contests attracted a large number of ...
Locals compete in Science Bowl
Mar 02, 2000; ... What does a parsec measure? Where did the Exxon Valdez oil spill occur? What structure is found in a mammal, but not in a reptile? The answers to these questions may be hiding in the recesses of an adult's brain. But the answers were on the tips of the tongues of several high school ...
County board hopefuls discuss growth, traffic
Mar 02, 2000; ... The five men seeking two District 1 McHenry County Board seats all know the county still faces one main issue - growth - and the consequences that accompany it. Incumbents Dan Shea of Fox River Grove and Donald Brewer of Algonquin are being challenged by former Cary Trustee Joseph Powalowski, ...
BIRTHS
Mar 02, 2000 ... TERZICH - A girl, Emily LaVerne, was born Jan. 2, 2000 at Northwest Community Hospital to Michael and Patricia Terzich of Cary. She is the sister of Stephanie, 6; ...
EDITORIAL
Mar 02, 2000 ...Pack is choice in GOP raceIt's a close call in the race for McHenry County State's Attorney, but we endorse incumbent Gary Pack, an experienced yet compassionate voice at the top of the county's law enforcement ladder. The McHenry County State's Attorney's office is, by most ...
OBITUARIES
Mar 02, 2000 ...William G. Endler Funeral services for William G. Endler, 53, of Arlington Heights, were held Feb. 21. Burial was in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Arlington Heights. Born July 28, 1946, in Chicago, he died Feb. 18 at Northwest Community Healthcare Center, Arlington ...
WEEKLY DIGEST
Mar 02, 2000 ... County jail inspection complete McHenry County Clerk Katherine C. Schultz announced that the Illinois Department of Corrections has completed its annual inspection report for the McHenry County Jail. Schultz said the results are available for public review in the Office of the ...
Skalski's two tosses lift Trojans to first outright FVC title
Mar 02, 2000; ... French fries, fine. Rides to school or work, sure. High fives, absolutely. Sharing conference championships, no chance for Cary-Grove's basketball boys. Not two years in a row, anyway. Certainly not when it means cutting down nets when the visiting opponent is ...
Canty sets record at Wheeling Invitational
Mar 02, 2000 ... Jacobs senior LaShawna Canty captured three first-place finishes, including a meet record in the high jump, Saturday in the Wheeling Boys and Girls Indoor Track and Field Invitational. Canty, the two-time defending IHSA Class AA state runner-up in the high jump, leaped 5-foot-5-inches ....
Perfect conditions needed for freshmen to flourish
Mar 02, 2000; ... Freshmen athletes who start at the varsity level are much like orchids. Both must be coddled and nurtured, and conditions absolutely must be just right or forget about them blossoming. Jacobs boys basketball coach Jim Hinkle said he has brought up just three freshmen to the varsity level ...
Taxes, growth, roads are hot topic in 64th District
Mar 09, 2000; ... The three Republican candidates vying for the 64th District's seat in the State House of Representatives all say they can bring more tax money from Springfield back to the district. Incumbent Cal Skinner, Jr. will face Crystal Lake Treasurer Rosemary Kurtz and Fox River Grove ...
Village officials plan to collect debts
Mar 09, 2000; ... Lake in the Hills plans to send some outstanding debts to a collection agency, but one particular debt might cause political upheaval within the village. According to village officials, former Village President Christina Thornrose-Meyer still owes the village $7,558 for health insurance ...
Driving the issue home
Mar 09, 2000; ... Convincing people to voluntarily raise their own taxes can be a daunting prospect. However, with numerous referendums on local ballots, people from every area community are busy informing the public about how the higher taxes will help them. AREA NEWS While the local ...
Algonquin church breaks ground on new building
Mar 09, 2000; ... Members of the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church broke ground Sunday morning on the congregation's third church building at the corner of Washington and Jefferson streets in Algonquin. The new building will replace the church that stood at the site from 1916 until it was torn down ...
PEEK AT THE WEEK
Mar 09, 2000 ... T HE ARTS Second Sunday Concert series held at McHenry County College presents: March 12, Debra Freedland, oboe recital; April 9, Spring Concert, including the MCC chorus, concert band, chamber ensemble and jazz ensemble; May 7 (first Sunday), Sessions Jazz Trio. Concerts are free and open to ...
BIRTHS
Mar 09, 2000 ... CARLBERG - A girl, Claire Quinlan, was born Jan. 10 to Paul and Rebecca Carlberg of Fox River Grove. She weighed 9 pounds, 3 ounces. Grandparents are E. Lindy and Betty ...
EDITORIAL
Mar 09, 2000 ...Kurtz in 64th primaryOnce again it's a close call in the Republican primary race for the 64th House District, but this year we are giving our support to Rosemary Kurtz, an intelligent and motivated candidate who has a solid grasp on the issues facing the fastest growing district in ...
WEEKLY DIGEST
Mar 09, 2000 ... Property owners association dinner set The Lake in the Hills Property Owners Association is having its annual corned beef and cabbage dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. March 17 at the Property Owners Association building, 1212 Crystal Lake Road, Lake in the Hills. The annual dinner ...
Library renovations begin, summer opening on schedule
Mar 16, 2000; ... Demolition of the old First Chicago Bank building at 407 Lincoln Ave. officially began last week, kick-starting the $1.325 million project that will convert the facility into Fox River Grove's long-awaited new public library. State library officials gave the go-ahead for the project ...
Employees excited about new municipal center
Mar 16, 2000; ... Gray skies and frigid temperatures couldn't dampen the spirit of Fox River Grove Village Hall employees Friday as they boxed up years of files, furniture, supplies and memories, and prepared to move to their new location at the corner of Opatrny Drive and Illinois Street. The mood inside ...
Fire Chief Macko announces retirement
Mar 16, 2000; ... The Cary Fire Protection District is preparing to replace one of its foundations. Les Macko has served as chief of the Cary Fire Department for 25 years. However, he announced recently he will retire Sept. 2 - his 70th birthday. District officials praise his progressive style and ...
Parents address board with emotional pleas for rezoning
Mar 16, 2000; ... Emotional pleas from disgruntled parents, many of whom reside on Algonquin's east side, were the focal point of the Community Unit School District 300 board meeting Monday night at Hampshire Elementary School. The main topic of the evening was the controversial high school zoning option ...
Developer's bonds revoked, village to finish improvements
Mar 16, 2000; ... Cary is seeking to revoke a developer's performance bonds in order to complete public improvements in the Sienna Pointe subdivision. United Homes Inc. stopped working on the townhouse development several weeks ago. Last week the Village Board voted to revoke the bonds, worth about ...
Referendum approval should ease overcrowding
Mar 16, 2000; ... Laden with an electronic keyboard, Penny Libert carefully maneuvers her way from the front of the fifth-grade mobile classroom into the unit's vestibule. Balancing the musical instrument on her thigh, the Algonquin Road Elementary School music teacher shoves a folder chock-full of sheet ...
Pack, Prossnitz defend actions in Gauger case
Mar 16, 2000; ... The race for McHenry County State's Attorney became personal when candidate Wesley Pribla ran ads accusing his two opponents of convicting an innocent man of murder. Pribla's ads accuse incumbent State's Attorney Gary Pack and fellow challenger Philip Prossnitz of wrongfully convicting ...
County Board candidates offer different views
Mar 16, 2000; ... Incumbent McHenry County Board members Donald Brewer and Dan Shea both feel they have done a good job in turning McHenry County's financial situation around. However, the three men running against Shea and Brewer in the March 21 election feel more needs to be done to keep the county's ...
EDITORIAL
Mar 16, 2000 ...Support referendumsVoters in Algonquin and Lake in the Hills will face a pair of significant referendums March 21. We encourage voters to research thoroughly the specific referendum that affects them and make an educated choice. No one likes to agree to more taxes, but in an ...
OBITUARIES
Mar 16, 2000 ...Johanna G. DeKoning Johanna G. (nee Van Voorst) DeKoning, 72, a 25-year resident of Palatine, died March 10 at Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, from complications due to lung cancer. Funeral services were held March 13 at Ahlgrim & Sons Funeral Home, Palatine, followed ...
Voters say 'yes' to school referendums
Mar 23, 2000; ... Voters in Fox River Grove and Cary both gave their school districts the go-ahead to begin building and renovation projects Tuesday. Voters in Fox River Grove approved School District 3's $3.2 million referendum to expand Fox River Grove Junior High School. The referendum passed with a ...
Kurtz ousts Skinner in the 64th District
Mar 23, 2000; ... Challenger Rosemary Kurtz came out strong and defeated longtime incumbent Cal Skinner Jr. in a rematch for the Republican nomination for the 64th District seat in the Illinois House of Representatives. Kurtz, who serves as Crystal Lake Treasurer, defeated Skinner 9,671 to 7,846, with 95 ...
Incumbents prevail in county races
Mar 23, 2000; ... McHenry County voters chose to stick with the incumbents in the races for County Board seats from District 1 and State's Attorney. County Board members Donald Brewer and Dan Shea will both return to Woodstock to represent the district, which includes Cary, Algonquin and Fox River ...
Rising fuel costs are hitting home
Mar 23, 2000; ... As gas prices continue to rise, even local governments and schools are beginning to feel the pinch at the pump. "It hurts us as much as it hurts anybody else," said Fox River Grove Village Administrator Art Osten. However, because government agencies with large vehicle fleets buy ...
Voters say 'yes' to school referendums
Mar 23, 2000; ... Voters in Fox River Grove and Cary both gave their school districts the go-ahead to begin building and renovation projects Tuesday. Voters in Fox River Grove approved School District 3's $3.2 million referendum to expand Fox River Grove Junior High School. The referendum passed with a ...
Villages counting on residents for future
Mar 23, 2000; ... Street repairs, police protection, improved sidewalks, school construction, and community development. These are just a sampling of the local municipal programs that will be impacted by this year's census results. Every 10 years, the federal government conducts a census to gather ...
Big crimes, small victims
Mar 23, 2000; ... Everyone knows sex offenders exist for their own sexual gratification. What is less clear is the extent of the threat posed to the public by the area's registered sex offenders; people who have preyed on the weak, the scared and the young. Like anywhere else, there are sex ...
School committee learns the lessons of finance
Mar 23, 2000; ... Community Unit School District 300's Facilities Advisory Committee for Education was in session March 16 at Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville. Committee members were presented with an insightful yet somewhat overwhelming lesson on school district finance by guest speaker Linda ...
Incumbents prevail in county races
Mar 23, 2000; ... McHenry County voters chose to stick with the incumbents in the races for County Board seats from District 1 and State's Attorney. County Board members Donald Brewer and Dan Shea will both return to Woodstock to represent the district, which includes Cary, Algonquin and Fox River ...
Kurtz ousts Skinner in the 64th District
Mar 23, 2000; ... Challenger Rosemary Kurtz came out strong and defeated longtime incumbent Cal Skinner Jr. in a rematch for the Republican nomination for the 64th District seat in the Illinois House of Representatives. Kurtz, who serves as Crystal Lake Treasurer, defeated Skinner 9,671 to 7,846, with 95 ...
Fire district raises impact fees
Mar 23, 2000; ... The Cary Fire Protection District's recent impact fee increase may have come too late to cash in on two large Cary subdivisions and could cost the district as much as $169,000. The fire district will now charge developers $250 a home. The previous fee was just $50 a home. Fire ...
New principal to succeed Bennett
Mar 23, 2000; ... Cary-Grove High School's new principal is no stranger to the school. The Community High School District 155 School Board officially named Prairie Ridge High School Vice Principal Susan Popp as the successor to retiring Cary-Grove High School Principal Larry Bennett last week. Bennett ...
EDITORIAL
Mar 23, 2000 ...Be countedBy now most people have received forms from the U.S. Census Bureau. Many have already filled them out, adding their names to the government's count of American residents in the year 2000. Nevertheless, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that more than 20 percent of ...
OBITUARIES
Mar 23, 2000 ...Earl W. Weseman Funeral Mass for Earl W. Weseman, 69, a lifelong resident of Palatine, was celebrated March 14 at St. James Catholic Church, Arlington Heights. Burial was in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Arlington Heights. Born March 21, 1930 in Palatine, he passed away March 10 ...
WEEKLY DIGEST
Mar 23, 2000 ... District removed from watch list Community Unit School District 300 recently received word it has been taken off of the state's financial watch list. The state's determination was made based on the district's financial statements as of June 30, 1999. The function Financial ...
Hastings helps lift Sky High to Open title
Mar 09, 2000 ... Cary-Grove High School sophomore outside hitter Jamie Hastings helped Sky High 16 Black win the Sky High 18 Girls Volleyball Open on Feb. 27 at Spikes in Crystal Lake. Sky High 16 Black, comprised of eight sophomores and one freshman, defeated teams made up of juniors and seniors. It defeated ...
All-area teams attract interested readership
Mar 09, 2000; ... Moms will be browsing newspapers this month, looking to see if their high school basketball-playing sons made all-area. So will dads. Uncles. Cousins. Siblings. Coaches. Former coaches. Girlfriends. Buddies. Local pastors. Neighborhood kids whose role models live on their block. Northern ...
Salvaggio makes her choice: steps down as Eagles coach
Mar 09, 2000; ... Beth Salvaggio has had enough of the losing. The losing of potential impact girls basketball players, that is. Salvaggio stepped down as Jacobs' varsity girls basketball coach Friday after three seasons, citing her frustration and disappointment in Community Unit School District ...
No. 5 Trojans miffed after regional-final loss to No. 4 Boylan
Mar 09, 2000; ... When was the turning point in Cary-Grove's 78-62, regional-final loss to Boylan in Rockford? When Boylan, up 21-19, opened the second quarter by - much to the Trojans' surprise - spreading its offense and holding the basketball? Nope. When Boylan bantam blond-bomber Blake ...
All that she can be
Mar 16, 2000; ... Ann's Army wore lime-green, traffic-stopping T-shirts promoting its name, squeezed its 12-person troop into a mini van and cornered Columbia, S.C., streets knowing there was a race to be won. Ann's race. "I think they bottomed-out the van a couple of times," marathoner Ann ...
Second fiddles hope for sweetest music next time
Mar 16, 2000; ... They say nobody ever remembers who finished second. We say: Wrong. Somebody finished second in diving at the boys state swimming and diving meet in 1999. Somebody remembers. "I remember," Lake Forest HS diver Victor Paguia says. "I did." Schaumburg HS's ...
Coach planted seed early
Mar 16, 2000 ...E verytime I see an athlete chomping on a piece of gum, I cringe. I think of the danger of sprinting while chewing a glob of sticky stuff, and I feel it's only a matter of time before I witness a mass of Fruit Stripe clogging a kid's esophagus while driving the lane. Chewing sunflower ...
Carlson grabs 4th at IKWF State
Mar 16, 2000 ... The Cary Junior Trojan Matmen capped off another successful season by qualifying three wrestlers for the Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation State Tournament. Troy Carlson highlighted Cary's weekend by placing fourth at 101 pounds in the novice division. Carlson, a three-time state qualifier, ...
Johnson shoots way Downstate
Mar 16, 2000; ... Todd Johnson knew he would be going Downstate. Sooner or later. Johnson, a Jacobs senior who advanced to the 64-player finals of the Country Companies Three-Point Showdown, lived in downstate Washington until the fifth grade and still visits since he has friends and his ...
Trojans should contend for first place in improved FVC
Mar 23, 2000; ... Ramming thermometers down the throats of Fox Valley Conference baseball teams last year wasn't needed to understand that the league was suffering from an extended bout of spring fever. Baseballs, rammed down the throats of FVC pitchers, sufficed. "We didn't think the conference ...
$10,000 grant makes school 'safe to learn'
Mar 30, 2000; ... Good news abounds this week for Fox River Grove School District 3. Less than 24 hours prior to passing its $3.2 million referendum, the district received the news that it is the recipient of a $10,000 Safe to Learn grant. The grant, which comes from the state of Illinois through the ...
Coroner identifies body as missing Cary man
Mar 30, 2000; ... The positive identification of a body found Sunday in the Fox River ends the 3-month-old mystery of a Cary man's whereabouts. The body of 22-year-old Cary resident Leon Eli Tong was positively identified Monday afternoon, following an autopsy conducted by the Kane County Coroner's ...
Local road improvements will spark traffic delay
Mar 30, 2000; ... McHenry County commuters are used to long lines of traffic, but it always gets a little worse when the orange barrels start to appear during the summer. The approaching road construction season includes work on the county's busiest intersection, along with routine repaving projects ...
Local homeowners falling victim to subprime lenders
Mar 30, 2000; ... In John O'Brien's words, an elderly Arlington Heights couple found themselves in "a hall of mirrors" when they borrowed from a subprime lender. O'Brien, president of the Arlington Heights-based Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association, said the couple in question had been in their home ...
School referendum is a 'certified' success
Mar 30, 2000; ... Members of the District 26 School Board and administration thanked the district's voters March 23 as they officially certified the successful referendum. Voters within Community Consolidated School District 26 showed their support for the district's future by passing an $18 million ...
Smoke is still not clear over village's leaf burning issue
Mar 30, 2000; ... It looks as though the burning question in many Fox River Grove residents' minds will continue to blaze as voters defeated the non-binding leaf burning/removal advisory referendum last Tuesday by a final vote of 792 to 377. Had the referendum passed, it would have repealed the village's ...
EDITORIAL
Mar 30, 2000 ...Voters took bold stepIt's tough to raise your own taxes, and voters in Cary and Fox River Grove deserve congratulations for making a long-term investment in their future. The March 21 approval of school referendums in both communities indicate a strong belief in the area's ...
Ankle sprains need rest and attention
Mar 23, 2000; ... Many high school athletes experience the feeling probably at least once in their career. They are out on the court or field, moving around, feeling good. Then all of a sudden it happens - they feel a sharp pain. They fall to the floor in agony, grasping the ankle. A teammate will ...
Work rate suggests Eagles plan to return to Elite Eight
Mar 23, 2000; ... Powers don't pace. They race. "Coach, it's like a race," a Jacobs soccer player observed after she and her teammates sweated through their end-of-practice 5s in 7s (five laps around the soccer field in seven minutes). "The girls are taking off." "Most kids kind of pace ...
Trojans will again count on defense
Mar 23, 2000; ... They can win one-goal soccer games. Not games necessarily decided by one goal, mind you, but one-goal soccer games. G I R L S S O C C E R After all, Cary-Grove's girls won 12 matches, in total, last year despite finishing just 53 scoring chances in 26 contests. The Trojans got ...
Eagles plan to make strong pitch
Mar 23, 2000; ... Jacobs baseball coach Andy Jakubowski will not trade his hand. He likes his four and he's not bluffing. Jakubowski ranks his starting pitching staff - right-handers Scott Kenik, Rob Fontana, Dave McCullom and Dave Mullan - as good as that on any team in the area. "So I like that ...