By Benjamin Barr On April 4, Bull Valley will ask an important question of its residents – should Home Rule authority be enacted? While home rule means a lot of things, it most importantly grants government the authority to raise taxes without a voter referendum. In a state featuring the second-highest property taxes and the […]
Open house offers details of Bull Valley development Woodstock Country Club of Bull Valley, 10310 Country Club Road, will host an open house this week for a village initiative called Living With The Land. The display will be open for public viewing at the club from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 8:30 […]
Voters in the April 4 consolidated election will decide whether the village of Bull Valley becomes a Home Rule community. What is Home Rule? Illinois Home Rule is the constitutional grant of authority to local governments to self-govern, provided the General Assembly does not explicitly limit that authority or maintain the exclusive exercise of that […]
Voters in Bull Valley will be asked in the April 4 election to approve home rule authority that would give the village more flexibility to raise money for a number of projects. Village President Emily Berendt said becoming a home rule community would help to realize the desire for self-determination and local control that drove […]
TLC’s Art of the Land art show this weekend The 14th annual Art of the Land art show and fundraiser of The Land Conservancy of McHenry County will be from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, and Saturday, Nov. 19, at Starline Factory, 306 W. Front St. Harvard. Art of the Land is a […]
By Heather Vosburgh news@thewoodstockindependent.com Preserving and restoring Bull Valley’s historic Stickney House will move forward with a report from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Bull Valley Village Board decided last week on a plan to preserve the 166-year-old house and other structures on the property at 1904 Cherry Valley Road. The […]
By Heather Vosburgh news@thewoodstockindependent.com The annual display of daffodils alongside roads in Bull Valley by the Bull Valley Garden Club had an expanded presence this spring, spreading onto and alongside Woodstock Country Club. And while the yellow blooms are gone, the perennials are sure to be back – probably bigger and better. The more colorful […]
Scenic, rolling terrain northeast of Woodstock will be maintained as an open space forever – and the village of Bull Valley will develop a new public park – on nearly 275 acres of ecologically important land that is part of an acquisition being closed this week. The purchase from a trust is being made by […]
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