Johnsburg News

John Brobbey gets an early start clearing his driveway Tuesday in the 900 block of Fox Run Lane in Algonquin.

Downed power lines delayed efforts to extricate an injured person from a vehicle involved in a traffic accident near Johnsburg on Saturday night.

C.J. Fiedorowicz spent four months as a member of the Illinois football recruiting class.

Seven-year-olds Allison Jewell and Erin Bond scoop out some mashed potatoes during the Thanksgiving luncheon at St.

The Johnsburg and Woodstock libraries wanted to host joint seminars this spring about job hunting, resume writing and penny pinching during tough times.

JOHNSBURG – Terry Carrick believed in the redemptive value of suffering. It was that belief and deep faith in God that helped her deal with the 2002 disappearance of her 17-year-old son Brian, who police believe was murdered.

Running Brook Farm, a new-home community in Johnsburg, presents two series of luxury single-family homes with two decorated models from the Classic series for visitors to tour.

JOHNSBURG – Village officials expect next month to give Wal-Mart the go ahead to build a Supercenter store.

Drive through a developing subdivision and chances are good that if there's no special service area in the neighborhood, there will be signs boasting that fact.

McHenry County Farm Beauro's Larry Reinhard encourages St. John the Baptist eighth grader Bailey McCrea as she peddles the Energy Bike to light the bulbs.

A limited number of injectable H1N1 vaccines will be administered by the McHenry County Department of Health.

JOHNSBURG – Video gambling is legal in Wisconsin. It's not in Illinois. That hasn't helped bingo night at the McHenry Moose Lodge in Johnsburg, less than 10 miles south of the state line.

Part of a proposed $500 million project to improve commuter train service in Chicago and its suburbs includes adding four stops in McHenry County.

FOX LAKE – A no-wake zone is in effect for the Fox River between the Algonquin dam and the Stratton-Bolger Lock and Dam in McHenry, Fox Waterway Agency officials said.

A stay-at-home mom who worked part-time at her daughter's school, Kris Blum never anticipated that art would become such a passion – let alone, a career.

LAKEWOOD – Johnsburg wanted one for years. Ringwood, with fewer than 500 residents, has one all to itself.

Hernando Tapia , 11, stands with a sign Sunday outside St. Mary Catholic Church in McHenry.

RICHMOND – Since Richmond Township launched its senior bus program several years ago, older residents have known that they'll have a ride to the grocery store or to doctor appointments.

SPRING GROVE – When Joyce Nevitt was late to pick up her grandson Thursday night and didn't answer her cell phone, her family knew that something was wrong.

Johnsburg students Jillian Powers, 16, Kenny Kowalski, 16, and Mitch Kenutson, 16, consentrate Wednesday on painting Styrofoam peppermints for the junior class' homecoming float.