Thursday, May 23, 2013
A lawsuit alleges the experimental kit plane in which Kane County Bar Association member Kim Presbrey crashed was unfit for flying.
The estate of a Kane County lawyer is suing the companies that designed and built the experimental kit plane that crashed in Florida more than a year ago and ultimately resulted in the death of Kim Edward Presbrey. The lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court in connection with the April 2012 private-plane crash in DeLand, FL, north of Orlando where Presbrey was piloting his Seawind 3000 aircraft. Lawyers claim the Seawind "suddenly and unexpectedly lost power" shortly after takeoff and crashed into a local supermarket. Both Presbrey and his passenger suffered severe burns; the passenger survived but Presbrey, who was 60, died after about a month in intensive care. The Seawind 3000 is a composite, four-seat amphibian airplane …
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The newly launched site offers tips, info and digital know-how for small business owners.
Patch has launched a new site to educate and empower small businesses with the digital tools, social media strategies and marketing know-how needed to ensure long-term growth. Readers will have access to exclusive interviews with well-known founders and CEOs and small business industry experts who share their experiences, advice and tips for success. One of the latest articles features an exclusive interview with successful real estate entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group. In this Q&A, Corcoran discusses the how to take advantage of the size of a small businesses, and why making big “mistakes” made all the difference in her success. Click here to read about the tactics Corcoran used to grow her business. Additional…
Read about this business, whose owner just claimed their listing on Oswego Patch.
We would like to welcome Keith's Car Care to the Patch community! When a local business interacts with Patch by claiming its listing, we like to say thank you with a short question-and-answer session to help community members get to know the business. Contact us if you're interested in having your business featured here. Today, Patch features Keith Wolff, owner of Keith's Car Care. What does the Keith's Car Care offer? Keith's Car Care is the community car care center. We've been serving the tri-county area (Kane, Kendall and Will Counties) for almost 30 years. We offer complete auto repair, 24-hour towing and road services. We are a U-Haul dealer and have quality used car sales. When was the Keith's Car Care founded? Keith's Car Care was …
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
A selection of job listings from around Kendall County.
Welcome to Job Central, our weekly column listing local job advertisements and descriptions. We scoured the Web to bring you a selection of local job ads, but if we left anything out, please don't hesitate to add the details in the comments section. Most listings were found via Indeed.com. Be sure to check out last week’s Job Central for more job opportunities. If you're a local business and hiring be sure to post your hiring information in the comments below or email me at natalie.stevens@patch.com. Check CareerBuilder for more Montgomery jobs.
Did your favorite pizza place win an award?
The following release was provided by the Oswego Junior Women's Club: Which pizza restaurant is the Prince of Pepperoni or the Sultan of Sausage? Who makes a specialty pizza fit for a king? And which pizza restaurant did the people choose? On Saturday, May 4, the Oswego Junior Woman’s Club held their first annual Oswegoland’s Best Pizza Competition. The winners of that competition were as follows: In addition to the winners, other participating restaurants included the following: The winners of the categories of Best Pepperoni, Best Sausage and Best Specialty were determined by a panel of “celebrity judges”, including Dwight Baird (Chief of Police, Oswego Police Department), Danielle Tufano (Radio Personality, 95.9 The River) , Kevin …
Saturday, May 11, 2013
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
While unemployment throughout Illinois has remained mostly unchanged since February, overall 218,500 private sector jobs have been added since January 2010, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
Unemployment rates in Illinois were 9.5 percent in March, a slight decrease over February and slightly higher from the same time in 2012, according to new figures released in late April. In Oswego, the unemployment rate dropped -0.4 percent in March to 8.4 percent in the village. That is down from 8.8 percent in February and up from 7.6 percent in March 2012. In March, in Kendall County the rate fell to 8.9 percent from 9.6 percent in February. That figure is up year over year from 8.2 percent In Kane County, the March jobless rate was reported at 10.3 percent, which was down from 11 percent in February. That's still higher than the 9.8 percent reported in March of 2012. Specific numbers for Yorkville and Montgomery were not included, …
JimmyJ
9:54 pm on Thursday, May 23, 2013
I know several A&P mechanics who work on planes at the airport in Sugar Grove and not one of them would ever, ever sign off on a plane or sign of on work done on a plane if there was the slightest question or doubt. In fact both the ones I know have turned in pilots to the FAA who have done replacement work on their own planes without proper certifications. If the guy wasn't familiar with the … more ›