Monday, April 9, 2012
A group of about 20 residents spent their Saturday morning picking up litter and trash around basins in the Foxmoor and Fairfield Way subdivisions.
About 20 west side Montgomery residents grabbed plastic bags, gloves and boots and headed out to the Foxmoor and Fairfield Way subdivisions on Saturday morning to clean litter from around the ponds. As Jon Westmaas, clad in rubber waders, fished bigger items out of the ponds, kids and their parents filled garbage bags with trash and debris, much of which had blown into the pond area from uncovered garbage bins and recycling carts, according to organizer (and Montgomery trustee) Stan Bond. This is the fifth year the west side residents have banded together to pick up litter and trash around the ponds, and they do it three times a year, said Bond, the chair of the village’s Beautification Committee. This time, he said, they found less trash …
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Chasing after performance bonds is a long, hard process. Village Attorney Steve Andersson runs down the currently active cases, and discusses the legal ins and outs.
Looking back on it, said Village Attorney Steve Andersson, Montgomery was pretty lucky. When the economy (and by extension the housing market) started taking its tumble in 2008, many of the village’s newly-constructed subdivisions were complete, while others had yet to move past the drawing board. That means, for the most part, Montgomery was left with healthy neighborhoods and open fields when the building stopped—unlike the half-finished developments in some other areas, Andersson said. That also means there are very few cases in which the village has had to chase down developers to complete improvements in those subdivisions. In fact, as far as active cases go, there are only two: the west-side Huntington Chase, owned by now-bankrupt …
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The west side program - now in six west side subdivisions - has been shown to reduce crime and bring neighborhoods together.
Before he was a village trustee, Stan Bond was just the new guy in town. He and his wife Marion moved into the Foxmoor subdivision, on Montgomery’s west side, in 2004. At that time, he said, incidents of vandalism, loitering and other petty crimes were “skyrocketing.” So three years ago, he helped to start a Neighborhood Watch program, the first on the west side. It took a year, he said, to get to 70 percent of the homeowners in Foxmoor and Fairfield Way to join up. But now, he says, 78 percent of Fairfield Way is on board, and 74 percent in Foxmoor. The neighborhood is safer, he said, and reports to the police have dropped down to “almost nothing.” And more than that, the program has brought the neighborhood together. With more than 670 …
Liz Copeland
8:37 am on Monday, April 9, 2012
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