Algonquin

ALGONQUIN – A man stole an undetermined amount of cash Wednesday from the Fifth Third Bank at 450 S. Randall Road, police said in a news release.

ALGONQUIN – The Village Board’s vision for luxury condominiums in downtown Algonquin is no longer an unfinished eyesore, but it’s also not much closer to a reality.

WALKUP ROAD: A planned closure of Walkup Road has been postponed from mid-June. The closure has not yet been rescheduled.

ALGONQUIN – Riverside Plaza officials plan to share an update on the property at the village’s Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday.

ALGONQUIN – Workers plan to start the extensive earthwork and excavation for the construction of the Western Algonquin Bypass on Monday, weather permitting.

LAKE IN THE HILLS – Inside Kathleen Bacon’s Lincoln Prairie Elementary classroom, students sing about a crawling caterpillar becoming a butterfly that flies away to the tune of “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

ALGONQUIN – The villages of Algonquin and Lake in the Hills, the city of Crystal Lake and the Crystal Lake Park District have joined to create a Woods Creek Watershed Plan.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Readers are hungry for bondage – or, more likely, just fantastical escape from reality.

ALGONQUIN – Police say a white man approached a 9-year-old girl Wednesday while she was walking to school.

CARY – The village board Tuesday approved a three-year deal with its police union.

ALGONQUIN – Coaches and players from Dundee-Crown, Hampshire and Jacobs high schools will offer an instructional tennis clinic Sunday at Jacobs High School, 2601 Bunker Hill Drive, Algonquin.

ALGONQUIN – Algonquin Commons will hold its third annual “Touch-a-Truck” and Mutual Aid Box Alarm System Division II Fire Expo from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 20.

In his many years with the U.S. Postal Service, Algonquin post office Delivery Supervisor Romy Ramos always expects to see nonperishable food come to the post office in the days leading up to the annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

ALGONQUIN – As a result of a compromise, and in an effort to save trees in the neighborhood, there will be some design adjustments to a planned Indian Grove subdivision project.

ALGONQUIN – Not everyone in the Indian Grove subdivision is opposed to all of the village’s planned improvements in the subdivision.

ALGONQUIN – A firefighter was injured Saturday battling a fire at a vacant home in Algonquin.

ALGONQUIN – Including this year’s new public pieces, about 225 works of art have been displayed throughout Algonquin since the village’s public art program began in 2005.

ALGONQUIN SEnD The Algonquin Area Public Library has received a $1,000 grant to hire 10 teenagers as summer interns.

ALGONQUIN – Jacobs senior Laura Saldivar of Algonquin has been named to the Executive Committee of the Students Against Destructive Decisions National Leadership Council for the 2012-13 school year.

Police continue to investigate a single-vehicle car crash that killed an Algonquin woman and injured three others Tuesday night near Huntley.

ALGONQUIN – The village of Cary will have access to Algonquin’s building commissioner for advice and plan reviews under an agreement the Algonquin Village Board approved Tuesday.

ALGONQUIN – At the beginning of this year, the Illinois Electronic Products Recycling and Reuse Act banned certain types of electronics, such as TVs, monitors, computers, laptops, electronic mice and many other common electronic household items from being disposed of in Illinois landfills.

ALGONQUIN – The village has plans to allow Cary to use Algonquin’s building commissioner and plan review services when needed.

ALGONQUIN – From its humble beginnings in the 1890s to today, the face of downtown Algonquin has undergone significant of transformation, but at the same time has maintained its charming character.

While preschool generally is the first time youngsters are in a classroom environment, and where they get a head start on learning, it also is the time for crime prevention, law enforcement officials said.

ALGONQUIN – The recession has dramatically slowed development on Randall Road, but the commercial corridor remains crucial to both Algonquin and Lake in the Hills.

ALGONQUIN – Larry Tucker, author and creator of the Memphis Hosta Trail, will present a program May 3 at the Algonquin Area Public Library on why hostas are so popular, how to plant and care for them, and how to cope with pests and diseases.

ALGONQUIN – School District 158 recently was awarded a designation by the Asia Society as a Confucius Classroom.