Wednesday, October 31, 2012
More than 1,700 voters have cast ballots at Village Hall, Plainfield Township. Early voting ends Nov. 3.
More than 5 percent of Will County’s registered voters have already cast their ballots in the Nov. 6 election. As of Monday night, a total of 20,576 people had voted, including more than 18,000 early voters. In Plainfield, more than 1,600 early bird voters had done their civic duty at Village Hall, along with 91 people who voted at the Plainfield Township building, according to the Will County Clerk’s office. Early voting was also in full swing in Kendall County, where roughly 15 percent of registered voters had cast their ballots as of Tuesday. In Illinois, early voting started Oct. 22 and ends Nov. 3. Village Hall will serve early voters from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Friday. Ballots are also available from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday …
Friday, August 19, 2011
County Clerk Nancy Schultz Voots pushed for the change, approved by the board last week, eliminating 142 voting places.
Some Will County voters will get new polling places come election season, thanks to a unanimous county board vote that eliminates 142 precincts as part of a plan to save money. Approved Thursday, the new precinct map slices Will County into 303 precincts, compared with the old 445-precinct map. Will County Clerk Nancy Schultz Voots said she proposed the new map in a bid to save money on elections and make the size of precincts more consistent throughout the county. “There were some precincts in the Joliet area that maybe had 400 or 500 registered voters,” she said Thursday. “My goal is to make it consistent throughout the county.” Now each precinct could have more than 1,200 voters. Voots estimates that the plan could save up to $200,000 …
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Helen Harshbarger, of Plainfield, also worked as a teacher, model, tax accountant and co-founder of the United Way of Will County and the JJC Foundation.
Helen Harshbarger packed a lot of living into the 95 years she had on this planet. Her list of careers and accomplishments -- teacher, model, accountant, college instructor, politician, school board member, college board member, county board member, circuit clerk, charitable organization founder, wife, mother -- is as exhaustive as it is exhausting. For most, she is probably best known as the first female member of the Will County Board, a position she held from 1974 to 1982, and as the Will County circuit clerk from 1988 to 1996. Harshbarger lived life on her own terms right up until the end, son Warren Harshbarger, of Lake Forest, said. When she died Monday, she was surrounded by family in the Plainfield home she couldn't bear to leave, …
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Starting Wednesday, gay and lesbian couples will have access to many of the same legal rights that married heterosexual couples have.
Sarah Stumpf had her dream wedding in October 2010. “We got married in October. We got married in a relatively small, private religious ceremony,” she said. “Our first wedding was perfect.” On Friday, she'll get enter another union, not to renew the vows she already made, but to get the legal rights and protections that married couples enjoy. Stumpf and her wife, Diana Braunshausen, of Romeoville, will enter into a civil union this week as Sarah and Diana Stausen (a combination of their last names). The Will County Clerk’s Office will begin issuing civil union licenses Wednesday, providing the legal rights and benefits that married couples have. On Jan. 31, Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil…
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7:40 pm on Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Pastor SA=H nice explanation, except for BOM omission. more ›