Lakewood News

Apparently no shuttered factory, half-built real estate development or bankrupt sports arena can convince starry-eyed local government officials that taxpayer subsidies almost always fail to start the engines of economic growth.

A McHenry County Board committee is recommending that the principals of a proposed Lakewood sports complex get $18 million in federal economic stimulus bonds to help the project along.

Michael Declan Smoron, 3, of Lakewood carefully moves his tree-shaped cookie to a baking sheet Saturday.

God Bless Sgt. Jason A. McLeod. Forever our hero. Because of you, we are free. The words, placed in a sign in front of the Lions Club of Crystal Lake, were echoed by many of the hundreds who lined Route 14 shortly before 1 p.m. Friday to observe the funeral procession of Sgt.

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

Recently re-elected McHenry County College trustee Donna Kurtz has decided to run for McHenry County Board.

Crystal Lake police are searching for a man who held up the Shell Gas Station at 220 Virginia Street Thursday morning.

ROUTE 47: Route 47 is posted as a detour for Route 23, which is closed between Harvard and Marengo.

Lauren M. Anderson – landerson@nwherald.com Aubrey Suda, 7, of Crystal Lake attempts a handstand Saturday while she dances to the music from Damn the Torpedoes during Blast on the Beach and Lights on the Lake at Crystal Lake Main Beach.

Three Lake in the Hills residents face felony drug charges after they were pulled over during a routine traffic stop and nine marijuana plants were found in the back seat of their SUV, authorities said.

Woodstock's Adult & Child Rehab Center is coping with reduction in funds from contributions, fundraising events and grants, but staff members are enthusiastic about the opportunity to celebrate the center's 60th anniversary.

McHenry County Bike Club members Barbara Mahr, Eberhard Veit and Ann Wall ride the Winding Creek bike path between Miller Road and Village Road in Crystal Lake.

Lake in the Hills doesn't have it. Crystal Lake, Lakewood and most of McHenry County doesn't have it.

Jack Peterman, 11, of Lakewood plays Guitar Hero-Aerosmith Edition at the JACK FM tent on opening night of the 4th Annual Rockin' Rotary Ribfest at Sunset Park in Lake in the Hills on Thursday.8 Patrick Kunzer The band Libido Funk Circus entertains during opening night of the 4th Annual Rockin' Rotary Ribfest at Sunset Park in Lake in the Hills ...

Johnna Casello of Algonquin and her children Shaylan, 2, McKenna, 7 and Nolan, 5, watch Sunday from Dole Avenue as the Crystal Lake Independence Parade passes by.

So this is the stimulus plan at work? Huntley Road in Crystal Lake and Lakewood is being re-done. It had no problems to begin with but we are spending a lot of money to re-do it.

The residents of a subdivision in the McHenry County town of Lakewood are working on a nasty chore that has only been made worse by the heat.

Purchase a meal, and 20 percent of the purchase the price will go to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dundee Township in this fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at Panda Express, 27 S. Western Ave.

State legislators are familiar with the annual problem of having their member initiative earmarks for the next fiscal year held up.