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1 week ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
Developers coming to McHenry in the future should look to two- or three-story buildings that don’t necessarily have to look historic, but shouldn’t be overly modern either. Those guidelines were among the suggestions pitched by the McHenry City Council as the board worked through what it wants to see in future development proposals.
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1 week ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
Scammers using real names, claim residents missed courtFollowing a string of reported scam calls, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office warned residents and reminded them that the office representatives do not call anyone to tell them they have an active warrant, nor do they seek payment via a website or over the phone to clear up a warrant.
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1 week ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
A year ago, a majority of McHenry City Council said they were not interested in a proposal from Shodeen Group to redevelop the old city hall building on Green Street. A month later, the Geneva-based developer brought forward an early redevelopment proposal for other downtown properties that Council also said it was not interested in.
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1 week ago | 
nwherald.com | Janelle Walker
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2 weeks ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
Justine Neslund first spotted a pair of great horned owls in her Crystal Lake neighborhood in 2023, hearing them first, then finding them with her camera. “Mom just looks mean and Dad is like, gorgeous, and his eyes are always giant and dilated,” said Neslund, a wedding photographer who does wildlife photography on the side. She found the pair again as they made their nest and laid eggs in December. “Mom was on the nest early and the babies hatched in early February,” Neslund said.
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2 weeks ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
An upgrade to Johnsburg’s village hall, allowing both amplification and live broadcasting of village meetings, has a cost estimate of just under $40,000. After hearing the quote and details of the proposal, Village President Ed Hettermann asked Assistant Village Administrator Vinny Lamontagna to see what difference would be for a wired, as opposed to a Wi-Fi-based, system. “I would like to see a hard-wired system also ... if we are going to do it.
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2 weeks ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
Officials have not yet released the name of a man killed Wednesday evening when his 2009 Harley-Davidson motorcycle collided with an SUV. According to a release Thursday afternoon from the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office, the 44-year-old Crystal Lake man was pronounced dead at the scene. Emergency responders were called at about 5:23 p.m. to the 5800 block of Route 47, between Thayer and Allendale roads, for a three-vehicle crash.
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2 weeks ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
Working at corporate gyms over the past decade, Jared Schnulle and Jonathan Yousif saw the good and the bad in them. The bad parts are what the former high school classmates kept in mind as they developed a business plan for their new independent location, Battle Crew Gym. It is set to open June 21 at 1792 N. Richmond Road in McHenry. At those national gym chains, members “are just a number,” Schnulle said – with the chains signing people up for memberships then hoping they never actually show up.
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2 weeks ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
Long known for its agricultural economy, McHenry County has a wealth of historic farms dating to the early 1800s. But what to do with the barns and farmsteads of founding families has become the question. McHenry was gifted the historic Colby-Petersen Farm in 2002 with an agreement that it would remain open to the public, but the city has yet to determine what it will be open for.
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2 weeks ago | 
nwherald.com | Janelle Walker
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