Amy Mack
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Local donors' gift makes McHenry County say 'Wow!'Jun 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Few longtime McHenry County residents would be surprised that Sage Products was making a donation to a local hospital. The firm and its co-founders, Vince Foglia and Pau...
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Let's hear it for the Algonquin public works guysJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - If anyone asked Algonquin's riverfront residents who should be grand marshal of this year's Founders' Days parade, I'm pretty sure they'd say the village's entire public...
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Rain, rain, go away …Jun 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Pooped from sandbagging last summer, Algonquin resident Roger Baumgartner plopped down in his lawn chair near the overflowing Fox River when a news photographer stopped ...
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An experience one veteran will remember for the rest of his lifeJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - By the time Charlie May got home to Huntley from his first visit to the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., late Wednesday, the proud father, grandfather and Pear...
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Can somebody turn off the waterworksJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Anyone living near our lovely, but overflowing, waterways has likely been keeping a wary eye on the water levels in recent days. And it's guaranteed we're all watching o...
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Veterans eager for HonorJun 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Almost 67 years after surviving the "Day of Infamy" -- and long before most of us rolled out of bed this morning -- Huntley resident Charlie May was eagerly on his way t...
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Teacher 'helped to change the world'Jun 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Plenty of students and teachers have their eye on the clock these days as it ticks down the final minutes until summer vacation. There's a special countdown going on at ...
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Do you know what happened 64 years ago?Jun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - For many of us, today is just another Friday, the welcome end of the work week, TGIF and all that. But for some of you, today is the anniversary of a day that brought ma...
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Grads aren't the only ones moving onJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - As we proudly cheer all of our high school and college graduates and look to what's next for them, others among us are also poised for transition. Some make their move w...
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Flying cheaper than driving? Who knew?May 31, 2008 11:00 pm - It sure seemed a good idea at the time. An enticingly cheap car rental special made flying to Jacksonville, Fla., and driving back to the lovely northern Fox Valley seem...