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D-156 union OKs call to strike Representatives: Little progress in contract negotiations sparks decision By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com McHENRY – The teachers union for McHenry Community High School District 156 has authorized a call to strike in October after contract negotiations have made little progress, union representatives said. The authorization, which gives the negotiations team
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It cited a “lack of meaningful progress in negotiations with the school board.” Should school teachers be Compensation and insurallowed to strike? Vote online at ance contributions represent NWHerald.com. some of the key issues keeping the two sides at odds, accordpermission to call a strike on ing to the release. or about Oct. 1, recently was “We are having a difficult announced in a news release time attracting and maintainfrom the roughly 160-member ing quality teachers and staff. McHenry Community High McHenry High School is losing School Education Association. good people to the surround-
ing communities,” Ryan Ellison, co-president of the association, said in the release. “The board’s current proposal will make this situation worse, and this will have a lasting impact on the educational program, students and community for many years to come.” Negotiations began in March and entered into federal mediation over the summer. The release said the as-
sociation’s negotiation team is working “nonstop to avoid a strike.” According to union officials, the school board is proposing to eliminate the association’s salary schedule and asking for members to pay half the 4.5 percent insurance increase for next year, although teachers are asking to maintain the salary schedule and stipends to offset the anticipat-
ed insurance increases. The union also said there have been cuts in coaching and co-curricular pay, as well as one hard pay freeze and soft freezes in past contracts, despite the district having excess revenues over expenses the past three years. Union spokeswoman Heidi Dunn said the excess revenues
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McHenry County Deputy Dwight Maness dies at 47
Notre Dame order seeks to add school, nursing home, more By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Tuesday night is decision time for the McHenry County Board regarding whether to grant a controversial conditional-use permit to an obscure French religious order that wants to significantly expand its operations in Coral Township. After months of hearing hours of public comment from supIf you go porters and opponents, WHAT: McHen- the County Board in ry County Board two votes meeting will decide WHEN: 7 p.m. whether to Tuesday WHERE: Admin- a l l o w t h e istration Building, F r a t e r n i te of Notre 667 Ware Road, Dame to Woodstock add a boarding school, nursing home, winery, brewery and gift shop to its 95 acres at 10003 Harmony Hill Road, south of Marengo and Union. After months of testimony before the Zoning Board of Appeals, the zoning board fell one vote short of recommending that the County Board approve it. The vote to grant the conditional-use permit requires only a simple majority of the County Board members present for the vote, which will come shortly after the start of the 7 p.m. meeting. A separate vote to grant the fraternite a number of variances to county ordinance, however, will require a threefourths majority, or 18 of the board’s 24 members, regardless of attendance. The polarizing issue has galvanized neighbors and the government of Coral Township into opposing the fraternite’s expansion request. The County Board first granted it a permit in 2005 to build a chapel, convent, monastery and bakery on the property. Neighbors angry about the original permit are more upset about the proposed expansion, and have alleged the
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McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Maness participates in an awards ceremony last year to recognize the employees who responded to the events that occurred Oct. 16, 2014, in Holiday Hills, when Maness was shot. Maness received a Purple Heart during the ceremony.
McHenry man was eager to return to work after Holiday Hills shooting By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A McHenry County sheriff’s deputy shot last year in the line of duty died Monday, the sheriff’s office confirmed. Deputy Dwight Maness still was recovering from injuries he sustained less than a year ago in a shooting in Holiday Hills. The sheriff’s office didn’t confirm any other details on Maness’ death. He was 47. Maness, of McHenry, and his wife, Sue, recently marked Dwight’s 47th – the first birthday since the night he and a partner were ambushed in Holiday Hills. His birthday fell on the same night as the vigil for Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz, another
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celebrate [Gliniewicz’s] life, as well as mine.” A former U.S. Army Ranger, Maness vowed recovery. He was committed to walking again, and told the Northwest Herald in that interview he was eager to return to work and eventually hop on the motorcycle. Dwight Maness, McHenry Maness’ doctors told him he was healCounty sheriff’s deputy after Holiday ing better than anticipated. Hills shooter Scott B. Peters was found He and his partner, Deputy Khalia guilty on 15 felony counts Satkiewicz, responded to Holiday Hills on Oct. 16, 2014, for a reported law enforcement officer who was shot domestic situation. Shooter Scott Sept. 1. B. Peters fired more than a dozen There was nowhere else Maness rounds through the front door as he wanted to be. yelled: “Airborne!” Peters continued “We went to celebrate life,” he said firing on the deputies as they retreatin a Sept. 3 interview with the North- ed for safety. west Herald. “Not to mourn, but to Peters eventually was sentenced
I have the determination. I will put in the hard work. I will walk again.”
to 135 years in prison. Maness was shot in the back and leg and remained dependent on a wheelchair or walker. Satkiewicz also survived, and both deputies received the county’s first and only Purple Hearts from the sheriff’s office. Maness, a 7-year, 11-month veteran of the sheriff’s office, spent 20 years with the U.S. Army and saw combat in Iraq in 1990-91. He retired from the military with the rank of sergeant first class. “I’m the real Airborne Ranger right here,” Maness said after Peters was found guilty on all 15 felonies. “I have the determination. I will put in the hard work. I will walk again.”
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