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Remediation work over two days last week involved digging in front of the Frisbie Lohmeyer Insurance office at 131 Washington St. When work was done in 2021 to renovate A former gasoline station for the insurance company’s new office, a small leak from one of the old underground fuel tanks was found. A firm contracted by the EPA cleaned out the remaining contaminated soil last week, replacing it with clean soil. Doing the work will allow construction of a residential building if that’s how the property is developed, Luke Lohmeyer told The Woodstock Independent. (Independent photo by Ken Farver)

Holiday traffic enforcement campaign gets underway McHenry County Sheriff’s Office this week has launched a July 4th traffic enforcement campaign with a focus on impaired and unbuckled drivers. The safety campaign will run through July 5 to encompass three summer weekends leading up to and after Independence Day. Sheriff’s deputies will join the Illinois State […]

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