Pingree Grove News

A crude comment left on a Web site promoting Pingree Grove's holiday lights contest has led the village president to pull the plug on the event altogether.

Actually, residents already were being required to do that in recent years. But when a new company was hired to handle the village's building permits and building inspections, company officials noticed that the village ordinances don't legally require permits and inspections for driveways, walkways and patios.

Residents of Cambridge Lakes South subdivision in Pingree Grove won't have to pay a five percent tax increase after all.

Raise the song of harvest home. All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin.

The recently completed roundabout at Reinking Road and Damisch Road in Pingree Grove helps ease traffic congestion and direct traffic into major arteries in the area.

Future college students and their families are encouraged to register for Financial Aid for College 101, provided by the Elgin United Way and offered at the Gail Borden Public Library next month.

Some things we didn't have space to mention in Sunday's Storyteller feature about the Conro family farm near Pingree Grove and Hampshire: * Alan Conro says the design on Oberweis Dairy's milk bottles is based on cows who lived on the farm, which is on both sides of the neck between Routes 72 and 20 in Starks Corners.

Most people in this rootless age can say they have moved at least five times in their lifetime.

Who doesn't love pigging out on Thanksgiving Day? If you're a local runner, you can enjoy a guilt-free Thanksgiving dinner by running in Algonquin's annual Turkey Trot 5K Fun Run and Walk.

A housing development planned near the border of Hampshire and Burlington in unincorporated Kane County will take the concept of green living beyond energy efficient light bulbs and rain barrels.

More abstract nature pics from Pingree Grove Forest Preserve near Pingree Grove and Gilberts, Illinois.

Three Rutland Township partygoers were arrested over the weekend after a dispute over car keys turned violent, police said Tuesday.

While Shelly Nguyen of Pingree Grove was waiting in line to get her 2-year-old daughter Alana vaccinated for the H1N1 flu Monday evening at Larkin High School in Elgin, her two oldest children were home sick, both running temperatures.

Time to go crazy with all of the wonderful costumes - I did a little research and it appears Balloon Boy, the Gosselins, Bernie Madoff, Michael Jackson and characters from "Where the Wild Things Are," will be among the top sellers this time around.

A young woman injured in a crash near Pingree Grove Monday has died from her injuries.

In two short weeks, Mac the horse went from roaming the streets of Pingree Grove to ruling the roost at a Hampshire farm that is now his new home.

Sometimes, it pays to have a lot of separate governmental bodies. The government of Kane County - which handles things such as courts, sheriff's patrols, tax collecting and elections - is wallowing in red ink and talking about cutbacks.

Mac made fast friends with the other horses and donkeys on her farm, many of which are rescues.

Bird watchers soon will have a chance to catch sight of great blue herons, sandhill cranes and endangered yellow-headed blackbirds when the Pingree Grove Forest Preserve opens Saturday for the first time as an official forest preserve.

Time is running out for Cambridge Lakes Charter School teachers trying to unionize.