Harvard News

HARVARD – Orion Samuelson, the American farmer's best friend for more than 60 years and the voice the farming community heard every morning, will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Harvard Diggins Library, 900 E. McKinley St.

Learn how to canoe. Explore wetlands and prairies. Cook over a campfire. Help restore a habitat.

Graduates Erick Finke Henry Froehlich and Justin Fuller throw up their caps Tuesday during Harvard High School's 2013 commencement.

A Centegra Hospital-McHenry surgical team performs a laparoscopic hysterectomy. Hospitals serving McHenry County charge wildly different prices for the same treatment, according to figures released by the federal government for the first time last week.

WOODSTOCK – Calling him a danger to the public, Judge Sharon Prather on Thursday rejected a request to reduce the bond for a Wisconsin man charged with this 10th DUI.

HARVARD – The city will pay about $13,000 toward the removal of traffic signals as a part of a $2.3 million project to improve Route 14.

Louise Hindal, left, with Jordan Jemsek Saturday. Hindal, a Charlotte school teacher, donated bone marrow to help cure Jordan of cancer.

County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill, R-Woodstock, said she still intends to bring forth a nominee of her own for the Mental Health Board vacancy.

Spring has finally sprung. This is a great time to think about volunteering outdoors.

By Jeff Forward Hampton Chronicle CAL High School has a new principal for the 2013-14 school year after the CAL Community School District Board of Education hired Illinois educator Scott Striegel.

WOODSTOCK – The Land Conservancy of McHenry County invites artists to submit samples of their work for consideration in its fifth annual Art of the Land benefit on Sept.

HARVARD – The Friends of the Harvard Diggins Library group will host a used book sale, beginning Friday and continuing to May 11, at the library, 900 E. McKinley St.

In an effort to combat a recent increase in gang activity, the McHenry County Gang Task Force was activated last week by the Harvard Police Department.

Harvard Police responded to the disturbance at Cool Music Stop Bar & Grill, 10 N. Ayer St., Harvard, just after 2 a.m. on Saturday, April 20.

HARVARD – Organizers don't know who or exactly when, but someone in Harvard just might have bought the most expensive Tootsie Pop ever during a Harvard Lions Club event this past weekend.

I took this photograph during a one day visit to the northern Illinois town of Harvard Illinois via Metra.