Sheriff appoints new undersheriff, jail chief McHenry County Undersheriff John Bucci and Chief of Corrections Ryan Sciame were sworn in last week after their appointments by first-term Sheriff Robb Tadelman. Bucci, former chief of the Algonquin Police Department from which he retired in 2002, has 25 years of experience in law enforcement. He had been […]
No need for a recount of votes in two key local races in last week’s primary election in McHenry County. In the race for the Republican nomination for county sheriff, Robb Tadelman racked up more than 59 percent of the vote in a two-man race. (See story elsewhere on this page.) On the Democratic ballot, […]
By Julia Eastham news@the woodstockindependent.com When The Independent tracked down Robb Tadelman the day after last week’s primary election, he was on the road for a family vacation after a “long haul” of a campaign. Tadelman might have secured the job of McHenry County sheriff when he won nearly 60 percent of the votes in […]
Robb Tadelman might have secured his seat as McHenry County sheriff with nearly 60 percent of the votes going to him in Tuesday’s two-man Republican primary election. For the record, he officially won the Republican nomination for sheriff in a race against Tony Colatorti. But with no Democrat having filed for the office – and […]
By Julia Eastham news@the woodstockindependent.com Both candidates for the Republican nomination for McHenry County sheriff have a relatively long history in local law enforcement – Antonio “Tony” Colatorti since 1998, and Robb Tadelman since 2004. No candidate filed for the Democratic or Libertarian nominations that will be on the primary election ballot June 28, so […]
Is this how democracy was supposed to work in U.S.? These weeks are difficult with all the unkind things being said about the candidates and the political parties. The TV is loaded with disparaging ads, our phones and computers with texts, mailers. The difference between right and wrong seems to have been lost in politics […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008.
Tricia Carzoli is a freelance writer and photographer that on community news.
