Asphalt company employee injured in fire

By TOM MUSICK, NORTHWEST HERALD, Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:25 AM CST HUNTLEY – An asphalt-company employee was taken by ambulance to Provena St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin after a fire Wednesday afternoon. The fire started about 2:30 p.m. near a conveyor belt outside Allied Asphalt Paving Co., 11900 Raymond Court, which is about a [...]

A touch of winter in October

By NORTHWEST HERALD, Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:27 PM CDT Winter touched down early this morning in McHenry County, as swirling snow and wintry skies gave residents their first taste of the cold months to come. O’Hare International Airport measured 0.3 inches of snow, breaking a record from 1989 for earliest measurable snowfall. Nathan Marsili, [...]