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Within the pages of this website you'll find the very best of Mchenry merchants, services and businesses. These
businesses and services serve the Mchenry area and areas outside of Mchenry such as Lake and Cook counties.
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Our purpose is to bring you the very best Mchenry has to offer while at the same time keeping your shopping
dollars within the Mchenry area. It's no secret that businesses are closing daily due to economic conditions across
our country, so it is important to patronize your local businesses. This will help keep your neighbors and friends
gainfully employeed.....believe it or not, it really makes a difference when you shop in Mchenry or use contractors
and other service people from Mchenry.
As time goes on we will be adding more and more of your favorite merchants to our web pages. The interent is a
quickly evolving media for businesses to market their products and services. Special offers can be announced
overnight with a simple adjustment to the webpage. If you join some of the lists, you will automatically be sent
messages when a merchant has a special offer or sale. Don't worry about getting too much email...it is illegal for
anyone to spam and we take all necessary measures to prevent spam emails.
Most Business Directories or Business Portals you see online will simply have a listing of the local business
perhaps with an email address and phone number. But not "The Best of Mchenry" business directory will have mutiple
listings of each business so that it is easy for the website visitor to find any business. Some businesses might
elect to have a one line listing, however, many will be featured on every page through ads and the navigation
links.
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Local Mchenry News Stories
03/10/2010
Officials hear update from D.C. at forum hosted by Bean
CRYSTAL LAKE – Although health care reform has been dominating the news, it is one of many things that Congress has been tackling, U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean told local officials Tuesday.
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03/10/2010
Judge orders psych exam for man accused of stabbing mother
WOODSTOCK – A McHenry County judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a 50-year-old schizophrenic man accused of fatally stabbing his 80-year-old mother Friday.
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03/10/2010
McHenry County cures cabin fever
Diane Johnson has been hiking a few times a year at Coral Woods for the past decade.
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03/10/2010
Wonder Lake approves bond sale for dredging
WONDER LAKE – The Village Board unanimously agreed Tuesday to sell the first set of bonds needed to pay for the lake dredging project.
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03/10/2010
Stand Down gives veterans a break
ALGONQUIN – Back in the late 1980s, John Blanchard lived in his car for a year after getting out of the Navy.
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03/10/2010
Woman accepts plea in spanking
WOODSTOCK – A 37-year-old Crystal Lake woman accused of beating a 7-year-old girl with a belt accepted a misdemeanor plea bargain Tuesday.
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03/10/2010
D-200 eyes $3.1M in cuts
WOODSTOCK – District 200 officials laid out a plan for more than $3.1 million in budget cuts Tuesday.
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03/10/2010
Reflexology talk set at Hearthstone Village
WOODSTOCK – Karla Fernet of Health Balance Reflexology will be at Hearthstone Village on March 18 as part of the “Gather ‘Round the Hearth” educational series.
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03/10/2010
Lunch with a Cop program set in LITH
LAKE IN THE HILLS – The Lake in the Hills Police Department will host its Lunch with a Cop program April 16 and 23.
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03/10/2010
Comment period extended
McHenry County residents have two more days to comment on the proposed 2030 Land Use Plan.
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03/10/2010
Harrison PTO to host school fundraiser
WONDER LAKE – The Harrison School District 36 Parent-Teacher Organization will host its second annual Pasta Dinner and Silent Auction on Friday.
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03/10/2010
Man charged in peeping incident identified as IDOT official
CRYSTAL LAKE – Authorities confirm that a Crystal Lake man accused of peering into apartment windows is an Illinois Department of Transportation official.
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03/10/2010
Health board forms new committee
WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Board of Health is looking for residents interested in joining its new Environmental Health Advisory Committee.
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03/10/2010
Man faces felony graffiti charge
BARRINGTON HILLS – A 21-year-old from Barrington Hills has been charged with felony criminal defacement of property after police said he painted graffiti on bridge supports.
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03/10/2010
State Police plan special enforcement
The Illinois State Police will be conducting a special enforcement operation today after a trooper was hit last month by a car driven by a woman on her cell phone.
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03/10/2010
Man with fraudulent urine specimen gets probation
WOODSTOCK – A 22-year-old Wonder Lake man was sentenced to probation after admitting he submitted someone else’s urine for a drug test while on bond for an alleged aggravated battery.
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03/10/2010
Algonquin library to host children’s author
ALGONQUIN – The Algonquin Area Public Library will host author Tamora Pierce at 4 p.m. today at its Eastgate Branch, 115 Eastgate Drive.
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03/10/2010
Civil rights figure visits Spring Grove school
SPRING GROVE – Students at Spring Grove Elementary usually study the civil rights era by reading books and watching movies.
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03/10/2010
Port Barrington trustee charged
PORT BARRINGTON – A Port Barrington village trustee is due in court Friday after police said he bit a man in the earlobe and pushed a woman to the ground in a bar fight.
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03/10/2010
Threat case sent to mental health court
WOODSTOCK – A 56-year-old Harvard man accused of e-mailing a threat to Circuit Clerk Kathy Keefe was transferred Tuesday to the mental health court.
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03/10/2010
D-26 union
must do part to pare losses
If there ever was any doubt, Monday night’s District 26 school board meeting put the debate to rest.
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03/09/2010
Dorr, give money back
Dorr Township board members have an opportunity to do something that is practically unheard of among taxing bodies in the state of Illinois – give money back to taxpayers.
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03/07/2010
Mandate bill a good step
There is a bill floating through the Illinois Legislature that would make some state mandates no longer mandatory, but optional.
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03/06/2010
Lessons only half learned
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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03/05/2010
Less is more
for Illinois lawmakers
At first glance, a proposal to reprogram the Illinois General Assembly to meet less often hardly seems intuitive, particularly since the state is facing its worst budget crisis in decades.
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03/04/2010
More attacks on FOIA law
The state of Illinois is in financial ruins.
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03/03/2010
Solid reform requires care
President Obama today was to unveil his proposal for changes to the U.S. Senate’s health care bill.
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03/02/2010
Extension sets example
The University of Illinois Extension Service is among the most practical educational ideas ever devised. Take the latest land-grant university research, “extend” it to people across the state to improve their lives and livelihoods, and watch the overall quality of life improve.
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02/28/2010
Let’s hear budget plans
Gov. Pat Quinn’s new Web site, budget.illinois.gov, contains plenty of tips from Illinois residents for helping to fix the state’s fiscal mess, including from some local folks.
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02/27/2010
Time narrows to offer input
An important blueprint for McHenry County’s future is nearing completion.
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02/26/2010
Time is now for drug court
We’re pleased to see some forward movement on establishing a drug court in McHenry County, but it’s long past time for this to be just a discussion.
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02/25/2010
No one held
accountable
We agree with much of the commentary provided in a guest column this week by McHenry County Health Board member Ed Varga.
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02/24/2010
Area athletes prove mettle
Saturday was a remarkable day for McHenry County prep sports, as five athletes from local schools won six individual state titles.
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02/23/2010
Tough choice on dispatch
They don’t grab many headlines, but there is no question that what emergency dispatchers do is vital to the work of police and other first responders.
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02/21/2010
Closing doors
on the public
Illinois state senators might have broken state law last week when they met behind closed doors to discuss ongoing fiscal issues.
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02/20/2010
Too many hungry kids
The numbers are staggering.
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02/19/2010
Nothing wrong with giving back
Now is not the time for government entities to be spending large amounts of taxpayer money on capital improvement projects.
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02/18/2010
Budget crisis shortchanges future leaders
Illinois’ financial crisis, highlighted by a $3.6 billion backlog of unpaid bills and an expected $13 billion fiscal year deficit, is shortchanging not only our present but our future.
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02/17/2010
Cameras fall under review
After a couple of years of seeing red-light cameras in use locally, we find ourselves on the side of those seeking stricter guidelines for their continued use.
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02/16/2010
Earmarks in need of reform
We’re approaching earmark-palooza time.
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