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Classes will resume Wednesday at Cary-Grove High School, where water has been restored and is safe for use following a boil order that was issued Monday.

High School District 155 Director of Communications Shannon Podzimek sent an email to Cary-Grove High School parents Tuesday confirming that school would resume with its usual schedule on Wednesday.

“Due to the circumstances of the school closure, we will not be required to make up the school day at the end of the school year,” Podzimek said.

Brian Faulkner, a former assistant principal of Heineman Middle School who spent the past five years as principal of Harter Middle School in Kaneland District 302, has been hired as Heineman’s newest principal for the 2020-21 academic year.

The Huntley School District 158 school board approved Faulkner’s hiring during its Thursday meeting.

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The resignation of Fox River Grove School District 3 board member Gerry Blohm, effective March 17, was approved by the board at its meeting Tuesday night.

Superintendent Tim Mahaffy said Blohm has spent 21 years working either with or on the board, with 18 years of those spent actually on the board.

“They’ll be hard shoes to fill, but we need to fill them,” Mahaffy said during the meeting.

The deadline to apply for what will be a vacant position on the school board is March 18.

A boil order was issued Monday night for some residents in Cary after a water main break near True Value Manufacturing.

The water main break led to Cary-Grove High School and all Cary District 26 schools to close on Tuesday.

Because of the water main break, according to a village news release sent Monday night, many properties in the areas south and west of downtown Cary experienced low water pressure or a complete loss of water.

Algonquin was recently awarded a $400,000 Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grant to improve Stoneybrook Park.

Stoneybrook Park, which was last improved in 1997, will be redeveloped to add several amenities, including bocce ball courts, pickleball courts, a gaga ball pit, a pavilion, a walking trail and a 15-space parking lot.

The existing playground and sand volleyball court also will be replaced and improved.

Construction on the Stoneybrook Park, located at 1200 Huntington

A McHenry man accused of barricading himself in a Crystal Lake apartment Friday had previously filmed and photographed himself sexually assaulting a child, police said.

Matthew Reder, 24, of the 500 block of Sunrise Street, was on parole for a for a 2016 residential burglary out of Iroquois County when he surrendered himself to police Friday, Illinois Department of Corrections records show. After being sentenced to four years in prison in 2016, Reder was released on parole Feb. 23, 2018.

With less than a month before the 2020 primary election, seven GOP candidates must make their case to voters as to why they are the right person to defeat U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Naperville, in November.

On Friday and Monday, the Northwest Herald’s editorial staff met with six of the seven remaining candidates in the 14th Congressional District’s GOP primary: state Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sugar Grove; state Sen.

A car was badly damaged after it caught fire Monday afternoon at Huntley Auto Repair at 10369 Vine St.

Battalion Chief Mike Pierce said firefighters were dispatched to the scene at 4:46 p.m.

A customer who brought the car to Huntley Auto Repair went inside the business to talk to a mechanic, Pierce said.

When the customer came back outside, they noticed sparks coming from the bottom of the car.

By the time the Huntley Fire Protection District got t

Prairie Ridge students rehearse Monday for the upcoming play, "Crazy For You," at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake.