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Crystal Lake victim’s dad ‘pleased’ with verdict By SADIE GURMAN The Associated Press
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Marc Hathaway of Harvard walks around a two-bedroom duplex in Capron he recently helped his 18-year-old son buy as an investment property. Hathaway is part of a growing group of parents helping their millennial children buy their first properties.
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By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com HARVARD – Alex Hathaway will start at McHenry County College this fall with the idea of going into sports management or business – but he’s also learning the ins-andouts of real estate with his first investment property. The 18-year-old Harvard High School graduate bought a duplex in Capron this month, using his own money saved up
Did you get financial help when you bought your first home? Vote online at NWHerald.com. from birthdays and holidays, and from working for his dad to cover the down payment, but like many millennials he needed some help to get a loan in the tough credit market. His father co-signed on the loan.
“First, I wasn’t too keen on [the idea of buying the property],” Hathaway said. “The one thing I asked him was if I did this, could I do the sports thing. ... That’s what sold me on it – the ability to have the freedom to do what I want.” His father, Marc Hathaway, has been making investments in real estate since October 2003 when, as a construction worker, he looked for a way to supplement his income and minimize the volatility that
came with the construction business. He now does property management fulltime. “To me, it’s the ultimate way to build wealth,” the Harvard-based businessman said. “You have somebody else paying the mortgage for you and building the wealth for you. Sure, there’s the stock market, but you don’t have control over it.” And Marc Hathaway is not
CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was convicted Thursday in the chilling 2012 attack on defenseless moviegoers at a midnight Batman premiere after jurors swiftly rejected defense arguments that the former graduate student was insane and driven to murder by delusions. The 27-year-old Holmes, who had been working toward his Ph.D. in neuroscience, could get the death penalty for the massacre that left 12 people dead and dozens of others wounded. One of the victims, John Larimer, 27, was a Crystal Lake South graduate and Navy petty officer third class. Larimer died while shielding his girlfriend, Julia Vojtsek, an Algonquin native, who was unharmed. Larimer’s father, Scott Larimer, and his family were in Colorado when all 165 guiltys were read, he said. “To say we’re pleased is an understatement,” Scott Larimer said of the verdict. The initial phase of Holmes’ trial took 11 weeks, but it only took jurors about 12 hours over a day and a half to decide all 165 charges. The
See MILLENNIALS, page A4
John Larimer, a Crystal Lake native and petty officer third class, was one of 12 people killed in the massacre at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colo.
Julia Vojtsek, formerly of Algonquin, whose boyfriend John Larimer of Crystal Lake died while protecting her during the Colorado movie theater massacre in 2012.
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Firm presents concept plan to MCC board Ideas include new science center and student space By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – One biology lab at McHenry County College has exhaust units duct-taped together and running along the backside of tables. Demonica Kemper Architects principal Dominick Demonica highlighted the lab – along with another that showed stools
crowded along a work table – as he proposed building a new science center with updated lab space. The firm was hired to conduct the second phase of a space needs and utilization study and to devise a plan on what the college could do to meet its current and projected needs as laid out in a space study commissioned by the board. Any plans proposed by the firm would have to be approved by the board. Demonica presented the first stage to the McHenry County College Board of Trustees this week, looking for feedback on four possible layouts for the areas with
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the worst space crunch. Renovating existing science space – where the labs are too small and another lab will be needed in the next 10 years, according to the space study – would be difficult, Demonica said. “I’d like to see us focus initially on the science labs, the biology labs, that we know are woefully out of date,” said board Secretary Chris Jenner of Cary. “Most of the high schools in McHenry County have better labs. We really need to put a priority on those. You might even get me to agree to new space for that and use the displaced space for some of the other things in here.”
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And that current lab space is just the size the study says is needed for the health professions department, which is currently lacking storage space, so all the equipment is crowding classrooms, Demonica said, adding that another option is to keep the health professions courses in their current building, close to where the new science center would be. Demonica plans on taking those possibilities to meetings the firm plans on having with the actual users of the space – roughly planned for the week of
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In this image taken from video, accused Colorado theater shooter James Holmes (standing on the far left) listens as the verdict is read Thursday in Centennial, Colo. Holmes was found guilty of murder in the deaths of 12 people in July 2012. In the center, lead prosecutor George Brauchler puts his hands up to his face as the counts are read.
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