Kane County officials broke ground Tuesday on a project that will merge two busy intersections along Main Street in Blackberry Township into one. The $12 million project just west of Batavia will realign Bliss Road so it intersects with Main Street and Fabyan Parkway.
For years, the homeowners near Tanna Farms and Mill Creek golf courses near Geneva enjoyed the prairie grass and wildflowers that grew on the edges of the golf courses and bloomed behind their backyards. But there was a shock this summer: A mower came through and chopped everything down on July 11.
Election dreaming
Updated 4/16/2021 10:10 AM
Once again Jim Slusher is right on. How can democracy (small d) survive without voting? Of course a non-vote is really a vote, a vote to keep on motoring on, no matter where. Anyway, since I am one of those weird citizens that always voted, let me tell you why 85% of people may have taken a pass. I vote in Blackberry Township, a township as sweet as its name. At my precinct at 9 a.m., as we all know voting starts at 6 a.m., I was the proud voter No. 9 voter. So happy I was not in double digits. Yet all the precinct workers totaled at least 10. It is a true showing of American democracy that the election judges outnumber the voters. In any event, I do believe that 56 people voted that day. Except for Waubonsee College which was a vote for 4 of 6 not a one was contested. In fact, one library trustee position had no votes cast that is no, like zero. I mean, really, you cannot get your brother-in-law to vote for you?