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Area lawmakers line up behind gubernatorial hopefuls By KEVIN P. CRAVER
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kcraver@shawmedia.com In Republican gubernatorial primaries, wooing over GOP strongholds like McHenry and DuPage counties is like owning Boardwalk and Park Place on a Monopoly board – the odds of winning the game go up a few notches. Bruce Rauner, Kirk Dillard, Dan Rutherford and Bill Brady know it,
Who would you vote for if the election were today? Vote online at NWHerald.com. given the frequent trips they have made to McHenry County. All four of them attended the annual pig roast held by Right to Life McHenry County at the end of June, and all
but Rauner came back July 17 to the McHenry County Republican Party’s annual golf outing. Rauner and Dillard came to an October county GOP fundraiser in Algonquin, and Rutherford and Brady made sure to send running mates Steve Kim and Maria Rodriguez to represent them.
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‘Years of memories are lost’ Woodstock man describes fire that left his home uninhabitable By JIM DALLKE jdallke@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Ron Boss woke up early Thursday morning to his house fully engulfed in flames. Boss stepped out of his bedroom, looked to the kitchen and saw that smoke had filled the entire room. The smoke was so dense he could barely see in front of him. Boss dropped to his knees and hurried into the kitchen to grab his phone. He stood up to exit the house, but he ran directly
into a door that knocked him to the ground. He looked up and saw his entire ceiling on fire. Boss got out of the house but quickly realized his 2-year-old pit bull, Gucci, who normally is always by his side, was nowhere to be found. “I could hear him in there crying,” Boss said. “I tried to open the back door but flames were shooting out. I was calling him and he wouldn’t come out. I tried to break a window
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The front door of an uninhabitable Woodstock residence is seen Thursday after an overnight fire destroyed the single-family home. Crews were called to the 16700 block of Garden Valley Road at around 12:30 a.m. Thursday for a report of a structure fire, fire officials said.
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Fox River Grove Village Administrator Karl Warwick confirmed he will be leaving to take the helm in Lake Villa. Warwick, who has a salary of $112,000 in Fox River Grove, will be paid the same amount in Lake Villa to be the town’s first village administrator. He was hired in Fox River Grove in September of 2012 to replace longtime administrator Art Osten. For more, see page B1.
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NEWTOWN, Conn. – A year later, inside the big house on Berkshire Road, dolls fill the shelves of a living room and flowers and rainbows decorate a kitchen window, next to a little girl’s name: Avielle. Outside, all around town, Christmas lights shimmer again. But so, too, do the 26 bronze stars that sit atop the local firehouse, one for each adult and child gunned down at a school one unimaginable day. In so many ways, this is a place frozen in time. Ribbons
“For us, it’s not an event. It’s something we live with every single day of our lives.” E. Patricia Llodra Newtown First Selectman of green – the Sandy Hook Elementary School color – stay tied to mailboxes and storefronts, just as a curly-haired girl smiles from a framed photograph that remains atop a mantel inside Jeremy Richman’s century-old home.
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