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Yesteryear: Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the Record for April · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yesteryear. Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the
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  Speaker 1: Record for April. Written by Jeff Farren for Shaw Local
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  Speaker 1: News Network. This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. April twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County governmental officials gathered to celebrate the completion of
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  Speaker 1: a solar farm of about seven acres constructed on a
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  Speaker 1: formerly vacant parcel on the county government campus off Veterans
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  Speaker 1: Parkway US Route thirty four in Yorkhill. April twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 1: Gary Golinski defeated incumbent City of Yorkville Mayor Valerie Bird.
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  Speaker 1: Two of the three incumbent city council members were also defeated.
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  Speaker 1: April two thousand and six, a crowd of about four
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  Speaker 1: hundred attended a public hearing on the proposed Prairie Parkway Expressway.
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  Speaker 1: The Illinois Department of Transportation presented two routes to connect
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  Speaker 1: Interstate eighty eight and Interstate eighty. Both would be between
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville and Plano in the northern part of Kendall County.
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  Speaker 1: Would connect to I minus eighty at Morris, the other
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  Speaker 1: near min Nook. April two thousand and one, there will
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  Speaker 1: be three new faces on the Yorkville School Board. Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Robert Brennart, Dave doc Stater, and Dean Fisher won the election,
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  Speaker 1: with two incumbents voted out. April nineteen ninety six, a
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  Speaker 1: meeting is planned in Plano to discuss the route of
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  Speaker 1: a proposed crude oil pipeline through Kendall County. April nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety one, the City of Yorkville administrator Frank Klass is
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  Speaker 1: the new Kendall County Highway Superintendent. He replaces interim superintendent
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  Speaker 1: Andy Myers, who held the post since last fall when
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  Speaker 1: the county board fired Joseph Gayser. April nineteen eighty six,
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  Speaker 1: the city approved bids for a second water tour on
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  Speaker 1: the south side of town. The tower is estimated to
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  Speaker 1: cost four hundred and sixty seven thousand, two hundred dollars,
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  Speaker 1: with an additional one hundred ninety one thousand, seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ninety two dollars for necessary watermans leading to it.
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen eighty one, the election for Yorkville alderman from
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  Speaker 1: the first ward ended in a tie, with candidates Al
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  Speaker 1: Spara and Russell Yorke each receiving fifty votes. Names were
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  Speaker 1: d on from a hat at the next council meeting,
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  Speaker 1: with York declared the winner. April nineteen seventy six, the
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County Historical Society announced they are planning to add
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  Speaker 1: two more buildings to their historic street at the Leone Farm.
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  Speaker 1: The na Aos Union School and Seward Town Hall will
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  Speaker 1: join the Oswego House at the site. April nineteen seventy one,
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  Speaker 1: the Yorkville City Council heard a preliminary request for annexation
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  Speaker 1: of two hundred and twenty five acres of land north
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  Speaker 1: of Route thirty four and west of Route forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: It is locally owned by tare Jack Construction Company. Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Fred Dixon made the presentation on behalf of the development,
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  Speaker 1: Countryside Center. The development will include about five hundred residential lots,
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  Speaker 1: two large ponds, a motel, restaurant complex, a shopping center,
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  Speaker 1: and a bank. The assessed value for the development would
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  Speaker 1: be in excess of the present City of Yorkville. Dixon
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  Speaker 1: said the request was referred to the Planned Commission. Initial
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  Speaker 1: steps to form a Chamber of Commerce in Yorkville were
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  Speaker 1: taken as fifty seven representatives from a cross section of
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  Speaker 1: the business community. Met April nineteen sixty six Pleasant Nole
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  Speaker 1: Golf driving rain which is now open forty modern matt
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  Speaker 1: and grass tees illuminated for night play. It is on
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  Speaker 1: Quinsy Road near Spring Street. April nineteen sixty one, fire
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  Speaker 1: damage the Yorkville Grade School building on Game Farm Road.
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  Speaker 1: The building, constructed in nineteen fifty two, suffered damage which
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  Speaker 1: started in a third grade classroom. The fire spread to
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  Speaker 1: two other classrooms, with smoke and water damage extensive in
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  Speaker 1: the east wing. The office was not touched. Cause of
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  Speaker 1: the fire is unknown. Loss was set at fifty five thousand,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars. April nineteen fifty six, after several months
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  Speaker 1: of planning and worked with the Kendall County Board of
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  Speaker 1: Supervisors and other officials, Caterpillar Tractor Company of Peoria announced
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  Speaker 1: it will build a large factory in Kendall County, near Montgomery.
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  Speaker 1: It is said the plant will assess at about thirty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars and employee three thousand to four thousand people.
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen fifty one, Francis H. Hans was elected President
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  Speaker 1: of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Yorkville.
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  Speaker 1: James E. Price and Ellsworth Windett were re elected as
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  Speaker 1: members of the board, and Paul A. Merkle was elected
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  Speaker 1: for his first term on the board. April nineteen forty six.
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  Speaker 1: There is a movement afoot to start a memorial park
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  Speaker 1: on the north side. It would be at Somanowk and
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  Speaker 1: Church on the Tarbox property. Fundraising will soon begin. Lavern
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  Speaker 1: Monkomere has reopened his Yorkville Theater in the town Hall.
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen forty one. We are going to devote a
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  Speaker 1: few lines to Van Emmon Street. The street could stand
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  Speaker 1: improvement if gas tax funds are available. We would like
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  Speaker 1: to see it tarred at least one block east of Bridge,
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  Speaker 1: and if it's possible, we'd like to see the tarvia
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  Speaker 1: extend right onto the new highway which goes from Route
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  Speaker 1: forty seven to Route thirty four inches Oswego. It would
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  Speaker 1: be a fine thing for Van Emmon, one of the
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  Speaker 1: main streets in town. April nineteen thirty six, County Sheriff W. A.
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  Speaker 1: Meyer and several federal agents raided the gas station on
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  Speaker 1: Route thirty four between Yorkville and Oswego Monday. In the shed,
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  Speaker 1: they found three tanks, two of which contained five thousand
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  Speaker 1: gallons of denatured alcohol. There were also several parts which,
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  Speaker 1: when put together, would be a twenty foot high still.
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen thirty one. If you have the misfortune to
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  Speaker 1: have a fire in your home and are calling for
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  Speaker 1: the department, be sure you call for the right one.
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  Speaker 1: The Bristol North of the River fire truck will answer
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  Speaker 1: all calls, but the Yorkville South of the River fire truck,
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  Speaker 1: being entirely the property of the taxpayers in town, can
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  Speaker 1: only go when called in town. As a last resort,
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  Speaker 1: it may, by permission of the mayor, go outside of town.
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen twenty six election winner City of Plano Mayor W. D. Stewart,
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  Speaker 1: Lisbon President Peter Morrison, Oswego President Charles Roberts, Newark President
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  Speaker 1: Lewis Weeks. Millington President C. H. Pluce. April nineteen twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: at the Kendalltown Meeting, it was voted to authorize Supervisor
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  Speaker 1: OC to rent the town hall to the local movies
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  Speaker 1: for three dollars per night, as long as no fuel
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  Speaker 1: was used. This was done as an inducement for the
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  Speaker 1: movies to start again. It is the sentiment of the
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  Speaker 1: people that there should be no further delay in opening
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  Speaker 1: the summer season of motion pictures in Yorkville. April nineteen sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville and the township of Kendall remain in the dry
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  Speaker 1: column after the vote Tuesday. Plano also voted anti saloon.
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen eleven. Elliott and Abrect have installed a six
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  Speaker 1: horsepower gasoline engine in the elevator in Bristol to supply
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  Speaker 1: power heretofore supplied by the Fred Young Creamery. April nineteen
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  Speaker 1: six James Windett has had a telephone put in. April
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  Speaker 1: nineteen one. In South Yorkville, there were sharp contests made
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  Speaker 1: on the village tickets, the question mostly concerning the control
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  Speaker 1: of the liquor business. South Yorkville. John E. Reddock as
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  Speaker 1: President for the board, with seventy one votes for Trustee
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  Speaker 1: James Harkness fifty six, Justice NATting fifty eight, William will
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  Speaker 1: and Weber fifty four, Joseph Emerson forty five, Joseph Markley
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  Speaker 1: forty two for Clerk George Osay seventy two. North Yorkville,
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  Speaker 1: there being but one ticket in the field across the river,
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  Speaker 1: headed by J. A. Godard, President R. A. Laird, Robert
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  Speaker 1: Buck Charles Eldred, Roy Holdley, O. C. Nudsen Clerk April
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  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety six. Little hurlbut Watkins is anxious to have
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  Speaker 1: the people know that he with Bob Boston and Murray
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  Speaker 1: Irvine have a military club and they are going to
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  Speaker 1: defend Kendall County if they aren't big enough to go
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  Speaker 1: in the older club. April eighteen ninety one. The ice
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  Speaker 1: houses in Oswego fourteen inches number burned at a loss
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  Speaker 1: of twelve thousand dollars. April eighteen eighty six. The new
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  Speaker 1: door for the Yorkville Bank Safe has been received. April
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  Speaker 1: eighteen eighty one. Newark wanted about twenty five able bodied
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  Speaker 1: men to shovel snow off the walks in this city.
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  Speaker 1: With the present outlook, prospects can have work until July fourth.
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  Speaker 1: April eighteen seventy six. Supervisors elected last Tuesday, Oswego Henry W. Farley,
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  Speaker 1: Little Rock, L. F. Hemanway Fox, D. R. Blow Seward,
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  Speaker 1: William Bedford, Kendall, John Dunn, Lisbon, HS Langdon big Grove,
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  Speaker 1: Henry Sheryl Bristol, C. B. Raymond. Yorkville Village Trustees elected
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  Speaker 1: John Cooper, M. E. Cornell Jabeman, D. G. Johnson, W. M. Gray,
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  Speaker 1: and WR Church. W. R. Newton was elected village clerk
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  Speaker 1: April eighteen sixty six. Approved at the annual Town Meeting
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  Speaker 1: of the Town of Bristol, all cattle, horses, mules, hogs,
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  Speaker 1: and sheep except two cows for each family, the same
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  Speaker 1: being orderly, are prohibited from running at large within the
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  Speaker 1: Town of Bristol, north side of present Yorkville. It will
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  Speaker 1: be lawful if any creature found running at large, to
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  Speaker 1: drive the same to any pound within town.