The word “still” inspired both hope and sorrow at the sixth annual International Overdose Awareness Event, held from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28, on the Woodstock Square. Mike McGehee, “Country” to his friends, is still sober, still working, six years after McHenry County Drug Court helped to rescue him from a life of […]
Tour construction zone inside Old Courthouse Plan to get a little dirty at the Dusty Boots Tour at the Old Courthouse, 101 N. Johnson St., from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 30. The building, along with the Sheriff’s House, is undergoing final stages of an $18 million restoration and renovation that is scheduled […]
No one cheers when reporting that McHenry County had 42 opioid overdose deaths (with two more pending toxicology reports) in 2021. But knowing that the number of overdose deaths in the county fell from 51 in 2020 – and is nearly half the worst toll of 79 in 2017 – provides hope that the county’s […]
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