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Work on Fleming to start in June Rehabilitation project of scenic route set to be finished by the end of July By KEVIN P. CRAVER
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What: Fleming Road construction informational meeting When: 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday Where: McHenry County Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock
BULL VALLEY – Fleming Road, a scenic drive and monument to the fact that you can in fact fight city hall, will be getting its long-overdue repairs starting next month.
Work is set to begin June 3 to rehabilitate the 2 1/2-mile stretch of road connecting Route 120 and Country Club Road. It will rebuild the road in its existing footprint, saving its centuries-old trees, rolling hills and daffodil beds from destruction that
residents said would have happened under the county’s original construction plans. The plan, hashed out last year, uses a technique called cold in-place recycling, which grinds up the old road and part of the roadbed and uses the ground-up material to lay
down the new one. The project, scheduled to coincide with summer break for local schools, is set to be finished by the end of July, weather permitting. Fleming Road will be closed to through traffic, and a posted detour will reroute
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drivers through Woodstock along Routes 120, 47 and 14. A one-hour informational meeting on the project is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at the county Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.
See FLEMING, page A6
Pension deal gets Senate approval By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press
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With his wife Johnnie behind him, Bill Silvester stands on his back porch Thursday at his Crystal Lake home. Silvester was diagnosed with prostate cancer in November. According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer in men. BELOW: Silvester’s medicine sits on the kitchen table.
Crystal Lake man opts for proton therapy – a less common treatment By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The past year has been a rough one for Bill Silvester. The 74-year-old Crystal Lake resident had an umbilical hernia – a condition common among infants but also can occur in adults – about six months ago, then he was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat. The 6 1/2-hour open-heart surgery that followed pushed back the proton therapy he was set to go through to
take care of the moderate, slow-growing prostate cancer he had been diagnosed with in early November. “I was golden until I started falling apart,” Silvester said. “I had childhood-type deals, you know, broken bones. I had pneumonia. I had a couple of girls that broke my heart.” Silvester looked over at his wife, Johnnie, and continued, “When she chose me, it was at a dance hall, and there were a couple of Icelandic girls.” Johnnie interjected, “We don’t
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Senate voted Thursday to send a union-supported pension reform bill to the House, leaving lawmakers with two competing proposals for dealing with the nation’s worst state pension problem just weeks before the Legislature is scheduled to adjourn. The Senate voted 40-16 Thursday to advance a measure sponsored by Senate President John Cullerton. The Chicago Democrat negotiated the plan with some of the state’s largest public-employee unions. Cullerton says Pam Althoff it’s the only pension-reform The only approach that one of three i s c o n s t i t u - McHenry tional, and the County senu n i o n s h a v e ators to vote agreed not to for the bill. file a lawsuit if the measure is signed into law as written. But House Speaker Michael Madigan prefers a plan that he sponsored and the House approved last week that he says could save the state three times more money than Cullerton’s proposal. Gov. Pat Quinn backs Madigan’s measure, as did Senate Republicans. But rather than take up Madigan’s proposal in the Senate, Democrats there opted to go with Cullerton’s union-friendly plan.
See PROSTATE, page A6 See PENSION, page A6
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FORECLOSURES FELL IN APRIL Fewer McHenry County homes entered the foreclosure process or were repossessed by lenders last month. According to foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc., there were 31 foreclosure completions in April, down from 164 foreclosure completions in March, and 92 in April 2012. For more, see page F1.
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