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Thursday, July 22,1999
A Press Publications newspaper f/ serving the Huntle^r community
Volume 39, Issue 15
Work to start soon at Route 47/Main Street
By Craig Wieczorkiewicz
Press Publications
The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced that it plans to widen the in¬ tersection of Route 47 and Main Street by adding new left-turn lanes by the end of the summer. The department will also install new stoplights at several other intersections in that area.
Beginning in August, Al¬ liance Contractors of Wood¬ stock will begin putting in left- turn lanes at every comer of the intersection of Main Street and Route 47. The heavily traveled intersection has only one lane nuining in each di¬ rection, causmg the need for expand it, said Shelly Costello, a construction supervisor for IDOT.
Addition of the new tum lanes should ease a lot of the
The project has a $600,000 price tag and a completion
target date of Sept 30,
officials said.
congestion that motorists ex¬ perience near that inter¬ section, particularly when a vehicle is trying to tum left at any of the comers, she said. The widening of the road will also benefit truck drivers who need to make wide tums, something that is impossible for them to do along tiie nar¬ row roadways through that intersection right now, she said.
The project has a $600,000 price tag and a completion target date of Sept. 30, IDOT
officials said. During the con¬ struction period, none of the lanes running through the in¬ tersection should be com¬ pletely closed, Costello said.
New stoplights will also be added next month at the in¬ tersection of Main Street and Route 47, as well as at the comers of Route 47 and Dwyer Street, she said.
IDOT officials said the ad¬ dition of left-tum lanes and stoplights at those inter¬ sections is part of a five-year improvement plan for road¬ ways in the Huntiey area. The plan also calls for the con¬ struction of new left-tum lanes and the addition of stoplights at the intersection of Kreutzer Road and Route 47 sometime dtmng the next few years. The plan also calls for the addition of a contin¬ uous left-tum lane that will run between Kreutzer and Reed roads.
Press/Farmside parent company buys Fox Valley area newspapers
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Liberty GfOUp Publi$hing, parent company of Press Publications and LIFE Newspaipers, has e^anded its Chicago presence witii the acquisition of the seven- news paper Press- Republican group^ which circulates in the Fox ValJ^ and west DtiPage counly areas.
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"The PressvRepublican has always shared the same strong coimnitment to its <;ommtmities as LIFEJ and Press, and we're proud to welcome them to our ex¬ panded fanuly," said Larry Randa, president and pub¬ lisher of Liberty Subujdban Chicago Newspapers.
Included in the acquisitiOfi are the Geneva BepobHcan (which traces its roots hack to 1847,) the Batavia Re¬ publican, the St. Charles RepubUean, the West Chi¬ cago ' Press <founded in 1907,) the Winfield Press, the WarrenviUe Rress and the Wayne Countryside Press,
Wayne G. Woltman, pres¬ ident and publisher of Press-Republican News¬ papers since be first ac¬ quired tiie West Chicago Press in 1979, will remain as puhlishen Randa will serve as president of Press- Republican Newspapers.
The   acquisition   brings
Liberty Suburban Chicago's circulation to more . than 200,000 in Coofc DuPage, Will, Kane and McHenry counties.
Liberty Group Publishing, InCt, headquartered in iSforthhrook, owns 284 commuiuty newspapers in 16 states. The company is controlled by Leonard Green & Partners, L.P., a Los Angeles-based private merchant banking firm specializing In organizing, structuring and sponsoring management buyouts of es¬ tablished companies. Leon¬ ard Green & Partners cur¬ rently has m excess of $1.7 bUlion in private equity cap¬ ital under management.
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Horsing around
Some special visitors receive attention after arriving at the BurR family's horse stables. The famous Budweiser Clydesdales stayed at the Maiengo family's stables on Monday en route from Warsaw, Ind., to Houston, Minn. Kevin and Lisa KucharskI of Woodstock met the horses upon their arrival on Monday afternoon.
School District to ask voters for more money
By Craig Wieczorlciewicz
Press Publications
McHenry County School District 158 plans to go to referendum again next year to ask voters to approve more fimding for new facilities, de¬ spite already having gotten a "yes" answer to the tune of $18 million in November.
While the School District has not yet put a number on
the request, officials said they had plaimed all along to go back to referendum next year, despite getting voter approval in November for $18 million that will help fund the con¬ struction of Chesak School on Reed Road and Leggee School on Harmony Road.
Both schools are being built fi'om scratch and should open by fall 2000, officials said. The schools vidll be provide educa¬ tional facilities for children in ¦   SCHOOLS, Page 2