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Salary schedule is ‘sticking point’ D-156, teachers union continue talks after schools were closed for 7th day By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com McHENRY – After the latest negotiation session aimed at ending the teachers strike
in McHenry Community High School District 156, the school board president said the salary schedule structure continues to be the sticking point. The school board and the
150-member McHenry Community High School Educators’ Association were at the bargaining table for six hours between Thursday night and early Friday morning. Friday
marked the seventh school day about 2,600 students have missed. The next session began at 7:30 p.m. Friday. “We’re trying to look
at things from all angles,” school board President Steve Bellmore said. “The biggest sticking point is that salary schedule, and we want that changed.”
The current schedule by which teachers are paid consists of a base salary, plus step increases for years of service
See SALARY, page A4
Pressure on Ryan to run for speaker
PUMPKIN SHORTAGE LOOMING IN ILLINOIS
By ERICA WERNER The Associated Press
Photos by Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Mike Danovich of Chicago cleans the dirt off his freshly picked pumpkin Wednesday at Goebbert’s Pumpkin Patch in Hampshire. Heavy rains during the summerhave put a damper on the pumpkin crop, but Goebbert’s crop was not affected.
Pumpkins flourish in county Growers say local crop unaffected by summer rains Voice your opinion
By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com Mike Von Bergen has spent more time than usual this fall brokering pumpkin sales with southern Illinois wholesalers who are preparing for a looming pumpkin shortage. As Halloween and Thanksgiving approach, jack-o’-lantern growers in McHenry County say their crop largely was unaffected by summer rains that decimated decorative pumpkins elsewhere and could mean pumpkin pie won’t last past Thanksgiving. For some local farmers, that means playing
How many pumpkins will you carve this Halloween? Vote online at NWHerald.com. supplier to a few more farms than usual. “We’ve moved about 500 or 600 bins; there’s about 30 or 35 pumpkins in a bin,” Von Bergen said between pumpkin brokering calls from Von Bergen’s County Market in Hebron. “That’s in
See PUMPKINS, page A4
Pre-picked pumpkins are seen Wednesday in a field at Goebbert’s Pumpkin Patch in Hampshire. Illinois produces 90 percent of pumpkins, making it the top pumpkin producer in the U.S.
WASHINGTON – Endlessly divided, House Republicans pleaded with Rep. Paul Ryan on Friday to rescue them from their damaging leadership vacuum. But the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee showed little appetite for the prestigious yet thankless job of speaker of the House. The Wisconsin Republican who chairs the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee – his dream job, he’s repeat edly declared – refused comment again a n d a g a i n Paul Ryan as reporters chased him around the Capitol a day after Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy shocked his colleagues by withdrawing from the speaker’s race moments before the vote. McCarthy’s abrupt decision came just two weeks after the current speaker, John Boehner of Ohio, announced his own plans to resign at month’s end, citing opposition from the small but strident bloc of hardcore conservatives who almost immediately turned on McCarthy, Boehner’s No. 2. That left Republicans in chaos, with a yawning void at the top of their leadership ladder even as they confront enormous fiscal challenges and budgetary deadlines that could threaten a government shutdown and unprecedented default in the months to come. So GOP lawmakers, from Boehner and McCarthy on down, turned to Ryan, 45, the only figure in the House seen
See REPUBLICANS, page A2
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Hugs from Hunter 13-year-old Marengo boy on a mission to show people they are loved by making small pillows he will give to the homeless / A3
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