Wauconda News

CARY – A Wauconda teenager is in fair condition after falling off a fence and impaling himself on a wooden stake Wednesday.

Business Ledger news services WAUCONDA -- Ryan and Company Realtors, Inc. recently sold a 5,000 square foot industrial condo on Sheridan Road in Fritzsche Industrial Park, Lakemoor.

WAUCONDA – A household chemical waste collection will take place from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Wauconda High School, 555 N. Main St. All household waste collection events, sponsored by the Solid Waste Agency of Lake County , are free and for Illinois residents only.

A household hazardous waste collection is set for 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 15, at Wauconda High School, 555 N. Main St., Wauconda.

Duncan Crowdis passes the gavel over to Richard A. Merluzzi, the new chairman of the Aluminum Extruders Council.

More than 200 people filled a cafeteria at Wauconda High School on Tuesday night to support Police Chief Douglas Larsson and to voice outrage over his pending ouster by new Mayor Frank Bart.

The Barrington Area CROP Walk is an annual community hunger education and fundraising event sponsored by Church World Service.

The Lake County Discovery Museum is in the preliminary stages of planning a proposed move from a Wauconda forest preserve to Libertyville.

The arrival of summer weather means more outdoor activity and live music at some of the popular bars on Wauconda's Bangs Lake.

The Lake Zurich/Wauconda/Island Lake Relay for Life kicks off this weekend with a more than $70,000 raised so far for cancer research, organizers said.

No one was injured in a fire that began about 8:40 p.m. Friday in the attic of a three-story, single-family residence in rural Tower Lakes.

A Round Lake Heights man was killed when a baggie of cocaine he swallowed during a Super Bowl party burst in his system, authorities said Friday.

Editor's Note: The following information was obtained from Lake Zurich Police Department arrest reports.

Island Lake Police Chief Don Bero has changed the department's preferred towing firm, ditching the company run by a political enemy of Mayor Charles Amrich.