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50th anniversary, Environmental Defenders of McHenry County, environmental stewardship, Green Scene

By Cynthia Kanner, executive director of the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County Fifty years ago, a group of concerned people started an organization called Defenders of The Fox River. The […]

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