Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Kay Hatcher won the 50th State House Race in the November 2012 election, defeating challenger Andrew Bernard.
Republican Kay Hatcher has won the 50th State House Race over challenger Democratic Andrew Bernard with nearly 64% of the vote across the three counties her district spans. She received 59.45 percent of the vote in Kendall County, according to that Clerk's Office. Hatcher came away with 9,863 total votes with 7,930 coming in on election day and 1,933 in early voting. Bernard had a total of 6,727 votes with 5,175 votes on election day and 1,552 in early voting. According to the Aurora Election Commission, Hatcher had 60 percent of the vote, or 2,583, and Bernard had 40 percent of the vote, or 1,703. In Kane County, Hatcher received 17,373 votes, or 68 percent, to Bernard's 8,354 votes or 32 percent. Hatcher has been representing the …
Saturday, October 27, 2012
This one is pretty spectacular, because it includes everything from electronics to scrap metal, textiles, wheelchairs, document shredding, latex paint and polystyrene foam. It's all part of America Recycles Day.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Kane County is hosting a free residential recycling and document shredding event from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in celebration of America Recycles Day, at 540 S. Randall Road in St. Charles. The county will be collecting for reuse or recycling: Confidential Document Destruction: We will have a free document shredding service truck on site for residential use (no businesses please). Bring up to five boxes of sensitive documents containing confidential information. Please do not bring periodicals, or other paper that does not need to be shredded and can go in your household recycling bin. All paper collected will be shredded on site and then taken for recycling. Latex Paint: Latex paint is non-toxic but difficult to dispose of (you…
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Under the category of "something you don't see every day," Democratic coroner candidate Tao Martinez supports Republican Chris Lauzen for Kane County Board chairman.
Under the news category of "man bites dog," the Democratic candidate for Kane County coroner on Monday sent a letter announcing his endorsement of the GOP's Chris Lauzen for County Board chairman. According to the letter to the editor submitted by Tao Martinez to local media, Martinez had announced his public support and endorsement of Lauzen on Oct. 18 during the Western Township Republican organization meeting in Blackberry Township. "I have been saying from the beginning of the campaign that there is not a Republican way, or Democrat way, to run the coroner's office. Just the professional way," Martinez' letter says. "I see Sen. Lauzen as a man with a great background to be chairman of the County Board. He has 20 years of legislative …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
One of the cases, the 64-year-old man from Elgin, died in August.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The Kane County Health Department is reporting today one case of West Nile Virus, bringing the total this season to 10. The case being reported today (Oct. 10, 2012) is an 85-year-old Elgin man, who was hospitalized and has since been discharged. The Health Department will be reporting new cases once a week on Wednesdays until the end of the West Nile season, which ends with the first hard frost. Other cases this year include: One of the cases, the 64-year-old man from Elgin, died in August. This summer was hot and dry, the perfect combination for the Culex mosquito, the species that is known to carry the virus. It is likely we will continue to see activity until the season is over. The Health Department monitors for WNV activity in your …
Saturday, July 14, 2012
The total is up to five positive batches of West Nile Virus collected in Kane County traps this year. Here's the latest.
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
Three more batches (or pools) of mosquitoes collected this week have tested positive for West Nile Virus, the Kane County Health Department reported Friday, July 13. The mosquito batches were collected in Kane County Health Department traps in Aurora, Montgomery and Carpentersville. This brings the total to five positive batches this year, the second in from Carpentersville. These positive mosquito batches usually are the first indicators of West Nile activity. "With this year’s hot, dry weather, these results come as no surprise," the Kane County Health Department press release said. "We usually see our first evidence of West Nile beginning in July or August. And although it has been extraordinarily dry, the few intermittent showers we’ve…
Friday, June 8, 2012
The new northbound lanes of Orchard Road through Montgomery will be paved over the next two weeks, according to the Kane County Division of Transportation.
It may not be a bad idea to avoid Orchard Road through Montgomery for the next couple of weeks. Workers from Plote Construction will be paving the new northbound lanes of the widened road between Jericho Road and Route 30 over the next two weeks, according to the Kane County Division of Transportation. Two of the lanes will be paved the week of June 11, with the third during the week of June 18. According to KDOT, there could be some traffic delays on a few of the cross streets – specifically, Countryside Boulevard, Aucutt Road, Knell Road and Rochester Drive – as the pavers make their way across. It will take a few minutes for paving equipment to cross the intersections, KDOT officials said. If you arrive at the intersection just as the …
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Paul Woodard, charged with aggravated drunken driving after fleeing from Montgomery police last June, was sentenced on Wednesday. He has been charged with driving on a revoked or suspended license 25 times.
A Chicago man was sentenced to seven years in prison for driving drunk in Montgomery, Kane County State’s Attorney Joseph McMahon said. Paul Woodard, 35, most recently of the 8100 block of South Vincennes Avenue in Chicago, pleaded guilty on Feb. 23 to one count of aggravated DUI, a Class 2 felony, and one count of aggravated driving while license revoked, a Class 4 felony, McMahon said. Kane County Judge Marmarie Kostelny accepted the plea, and handed down the sentence on Wednesday. On June 2, 2011, Montgomery police attempted to pull over Woodard for speeding in the 1300 block of Douglas Road. Woodard decided to give chase, police said, and led them down several side streets, finally stopping in a driveway in the 1200 block of Fourth …
Monday, March 19, 2012
The last day of early voting was Thursday, and numbers went up in one county and down in another, as compared with the 2008 presidential primary.
The early voting totals for the March 20 primary are in, and while totals are up in Kendall County over the last presidential primary election, they’re down in Kane. Early voting began in Kane and Kendall counties on Feb. 27, and wrapped up on March 15. According to Stan Bond, a Montgomery trustee and an applications analyst for the Kane County Clerk’s office, 7,017 voters headed out to the polls early county-wide – a much higher total than last year’s 4,550, but lower than the 9,193 who voted early in 2008, the last time a presidential primary was held. (That total does not include the city of Aurora, which has its own election commission.) Last April’s was an odd-numbered-year consolidated election, focusing on local races, and those …
Monday, March 12, 2012
On the Web: Burns, Sarto, Tiballi, Herwick and Wallet win Tribune nods.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
The Chicago Tribune has named its favorites for Kane County races. GOP: Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns over state Sen. Chris Lauzen "(Burns') extensive experience in municipal and county government merits endorsement over state Sen. Chris Lauzen, who has had something of a quixotic career in the Senate." DEM: Bill Sarto over Sue Klinkhamer "Sarto is a former auditor in the state Comptroller's office, skills that should serve him well in this office. He is endorsed over former St. Charles Mayor Sue Klinkhamer." GOP: Elgin physician Robert Tiballi over DuPage County Sheriff's Sgt. Rob Russell "(Tiballi) says his 'professional status of being a medical detective, the doctor other doctors call when they are unable to make a diagnosis, makes me …
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Monday, February 27, 2012
The early voting period for the March 20 primary election runs through March 15, in Kane and Kendall counties. All you need to know is below.
We all know the old saying, “Vote early, vote often.” Well, you still can’t do the latter, but starting today, you can vote early for the March 20 primary election. Early voting begins this morning in Kane and Kendall counties, and runs through March 15. Early voting has become an increasingly popular choice for folks with busy lives, who may not be able to get to the polls on Election Day Kane County voters can head to Montgomery Village Hall, 200 N. River St., Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. That’s the only early voting spot in Montgomery, but voters can go to any open polling place. Here is a list of other Kane County options. Kendall County voters have two choices: Kendall County Office Building, Room 103 111 W. Fox St…
Mike B.
8:41 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2012
Big surprise? Not. Apparently Tao Martinez, like the rest of the Kane County Democrats, seems to believe that Sue Klinkhamer is some kind of Republican plant controlled by the outgoing Kane County administration. And they appear to be so enraged by the alleged subterfuge and manipulations that they're willing to endorse conservative Republican candidate Chris Lauzen instead of faux-Democrat Sue … more ›