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1 dead, 2 hurt in car crash Many try to help at Route 47, 176 By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com LAKEWOOD – A 19-yearold woman is dead and two others were hurt after a headon, rollover crash Saturday afternoon at Route 47’s north intersection with Route 176, police said. Shortly after 4 p.m. the woman was driving a Chevrolet northbound on Route 47 when her car jumped the median and struck a southbound Acura SUV with two passengers, Lakewood Police Chief Leigh Rawson said. The Chevrolet driven by the woman then rolled over before catching fire. The woman’s identity was
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The pine grove in the Brookdale Conservation area between Harvard and Woodstock is seen Friday. Since voters approved a $73 million bond referendum in 2007, the McHenry County Conservation District has been able to acquire an additional 4,319 acres as well as constructing additional trails and facilities.
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Upkeep a strain on acres bought via referendum
The following sites had the most acres added thanks to the 2007 referendum: 1. Queen Anne Prairie: 1,056.06 acres 2. Brookdale: 408.725 acres 3. Kishwaukee Corridor: 385.163 acres 4. Coral Woods: 377.399 acres 5. Pleasant Valley: 302.403 acres
By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com Nodding Trillium is a delicate looking flower with three broad, usually white petals. It was thought to have vanished from Illinois after being recorded in the 1860s but was rediscovered in the Lind Woods, a section of woodlands now part of the Queen Anne Prairie Conservation Area. The McHenry County Conservation District has acquired more than 1,000 acres for the Queen Anne Prairie Conservation Area using, in part, funds from a bond issuance approved by voters in 2007, according to an analysis put together by the district for the Northwest Herald. Those acres account for nearly a quarter of the 4,319 acres the conservation district has
Total: 4,319.105 acres
On the Web To see all the land acquired by the McHenry County Conservation District through the 2007 referendum, go to NWHerald.com.
By JEFF ENGELHARDT The main hiking path in the Brookdale Conservation area runs alongside the 11-acre lake.
spread were present right at the start.” WHO – the United Nations’ health agency – had some incompetent staff, let bureaucratic bungles delay people and money to fight the virus,
CRYSTAL LAKE – Thomas Kretschmer would like to remind everyone that local police officers will not arrest residents for outstanding tax payments. Kretschmer, operations commander with the Crystal Lake Police Department, said a recent phone scam involves callers posing as representatives from the Internal Revenue Service and demanding payment on taxes while threatening arrest. “The IRS does not solicit payments for fines via the
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Report: Mistakes gave Ebola upper hand in Africa The Associated Press Looking back, the mistakes are easy to see: Waiting too long, spending too little, relying on the wrong people, thinking small when they needed to think big. Many
people, governments and agencies share the blame for failing to contain Ebola when it emerged in West Africa. Now they share the herculean task of trying to end an epidemic that has sickened more than 9,000, killed more than 4,500, seeded cases in
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Europe and the United States, and is not even close to being controlled. Many of the missteps are detailed in a draft of an internal World Health Organization report obtained by The Associated Press. It shows there was not one pivotal
blunder that gave Ebola the upper hand, but a series of them that mounted. Nearly every agency and government stumbled. Heavy criticism falls on the World Health Organization, where there was “a failure to see that conditions for explosive
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