Coroner: Elect, or appoint?
October 7, 2020
McHenry County is moving a Hartland Township polling place next week from Valley Hi Nursing Home as a precaution to protect its residents from coronavirus, officials announced Tuesday. While county […]
The third seat on the Woodstock City Council apparently was decided Tuesday by only 10 votes. Lisa Lohmeyer, at 29 the youngest of five candidates running, led the vote with […]
Campaigning for Woodstock City Council crossed over the line, so to speak. About three dozen yard signs – nearly all for council candidates – were piled up behind City Hall […]
A problem in counting the McHenry County votes Tuesday has resulted in two significant changes in the results, county officials said today. A joint statement from McHenry County Board Chairman […]
For the first time in a decade, McHenry County had a hand in electing a Democrat to Congress. But it was a tiny hand. McHenry County was the only county […]
Mary McClellan’s last election as McHenry County clerk will be something new for voters: a new $2 million voting system. “We’ve updated everything,” McClellan said of the new touch-screen voting […]
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