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Artists to paint outdoors during Paint the Town Barrington! Plein Air Event

Posted in Entertainment, Topics Of Interest on September 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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Artist Adeline Kreis works on her painting at the 2021 plein air event. | Courtesy of Village of Barrington

Submitted by village of Barrington

Just as the artists of Paris have done for hundreds of years, local artists will paint “plein air” — outdoors in the open air — in Barrington from Oct. 6-14.

Watch numerous artists from throughout Chicagoland as they paint local landmarks around town during the week.

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The Paint the Town Barrington! Plein Air Event will take place Oct. 6-14, with artists painting local landmarks around town. | Courtesy of Village of Barrington

Interested artists can sign up to join the competition at barrington-il.gov/pleinair. The entry fee is $35.

“Paint the Town Barrington!” begins Friday, Oct. 6, with Chicagoland Plein Air painters bringing their artistry to … village street corners, in parks, and more,” cultural director Rollin Potter said in a news release. “Please stop by to see the artists at work and to learn how the paintings begin to take shape for the competition.”

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Paint the Town Barrington! Plein Air Event will take place Oct. 6-14. The artists’ work will be on display at a reception and awards ceremony at Barrington’s White House. | Courtesy of Village of Barrington

All submitted work will be judged prior to the awards ceremony; there will be cash prizes of $500 for first place, $300 for second place, and $200 for third place, in addition to honorable mention awards in the form of Dick Blick supplies and a village of Barrington dining gift card. First, second, and third place winners will also receive a waiver of entry fees for 2024.

One additional award, known as the Artists’ Choice Award, will be voted on prior to the reception and announced during the award ceremony.

You can meet the artists in person as they showcase — and sell — their newly created pieces, at a reception and awards ceremony at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at Barrington’s White Houe, 145 W. Main St., Barrington. There will be a public art sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 15.

The public is invited to the Oct. 14 reception; it is free, but registration is requested at barringtonswhitehouse.com/events.

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Village Board of Trustees meets tonight

Posted in Agendas, BACOG, Big Red, Building Department, Conflict of interest, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Mad Cows, Minutes, One Barrington Hills, Pension Funding, Plan Commission, Police Pension Board, Politics, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Road construction, Roads & Bridges Committee, Unions, VBHPD, Village Attorney, Village Board, Village Clerk, Village Director of Administration, Village Engineer, Village President, Village Treasurer, Zoning Board on September 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

VBH Entrance

Our Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their regular monthly meeting beginning at 6:30 PM. Topics on their agenda include:

  • [Vote] A Resolution Authorizing the Execution of a Contract With Corrective Asphalt Materials LLC (CAM) For Pavement Rejuvenation and CRF Application on Select Village Maintained Roads Resolution 23 –
  • [Vote] Ordinance Amending the Village Code to Provide for Regulations Related to the Village’s System of Administrative Adjudication Ordinance 23 –
  • [Vote] An Ordinance Adopting by Reference of the Lake County Watershed Development Ordinance 23 –
  • [Vote] Resolution Honoring Barbara P. Hansen for her Contribution to the Village of Barrington Hills Resolution 23 –

A copy of their agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.

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Interior designer Kate Marker lists Barrington Hills mansion for $5M

Posted in Property Taxes, Real Estate, Topics Of Interest on September 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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Interior designer Kate Marker and her husband, Kenneth, on Sept. 14 placed their six-bedroom Arts and Crafts-style mansion in Barrington Hills on the market for $4.99 million.

A designer since 2000, Marker runs Barrington-based Kate Marker Interiors, and she oversees a variety of interior design projects. She also frequently comments to the news media on interior design topics.

In Barrington Hills, Marker and her husband paid $860,000 in early 2020 for the home. She then set out to renovate the mansion, which was built in 1926 and now has five full bathrooms, three half bathrooms, original plaster and wood moldings, reclaimed wood and stone flooring, Dutch doors and a kitchen with an ILVE Italian range, dual Sub-Zero refrigerators, a built-in coffee station, marble and soapstone countertops, a walk-in pantry and herringbone wood floors.

Other features in the 9,210-square-foot house include a breakfast room, a rear staircase, a family room with a beamed ceiling and a wood-burning river rock fireplace, a mud room with built-in lockers and heated brick floors, a sunroom and a primary bedroom suite with custom-built walk-in closets, exposed brick walls and an exposed rafter beam ceiling.

Outside on the property are a heated saltwater pool, a hot tub with a pergola, a herringbone fire rock patio, a fire pit area, a 1,000-square-foot coach house, views overlooking Flint Creek and garage parking space for seven cars. The mansion sits on 10 acres.

Mimi Noyes of @properties, who is co-listing the house with Coldwell Banker’s Dawn McKenna, told Elite Street that the house was built by Charles Buckley of Highland Park, who wanted to create a gentleman’s farm.

More here.

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BHS Homecoming 2023 photos posted

Posted in 220, Barrington High School, School Districts on September 24, 2023| Leave a Comment »

2023 BHS

Photos shared by Bob Lee can be viewed here.

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Clarence Page: In defense of old-fashioned Senate dress rules

Posted in BACOG, Clown Car, One Barrington Hills, OP/Ed, Organizations, Politics, Village President on September 24, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 21, 2023. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

Stop the presses!

Or whatever other device to which you turn for news.

Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, hard-line Republican loudmouth from the South, finally has said something with which — gasp! — I agree.

This unusual moment of comity came on the heels of a directive from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The New York Democrat directed the chamber’s sergeant-at-arms to stop enforcing the body’s unwritten yet faithfully followed dress code, which is coats and ties for men and business attire for women.

Although Greene is not a senator, she still poked her nose into the social network chatter on X, formerly Twitter. “Disgraceful,” she tweeted. “Dress code is one of society’s standards that set etiquette and respect for our institutions,” she tweeted. “Stop lowering the bar!”

Yeah! Amazingly, I agreed with her. That’s probably because, well, I’m old. I appreciate the enduring niceties from more courteous and respectful times.

I was raised to believe you should show your respect for important institutions, jobs and events by dressing in a way that won’t be mistaken for a visiting high school tour group. With that in mind, I was encouraged to see Greene calling for maintaining the dress code because of “etiquette and respect for our institutions.”

Read more here.

Editorial note: We wholeheartedly agree. Dressing inappropriately shows lack of respect for the office one is elected to and the officials one serves with…

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At the June meeting of BACOG (Barrington Area Council of Governments), Barrington Hills Village President Brian Cecola (pictured at right) was named Board Chair of that body for FY2023-24.

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Help Signal Hill, NSDAR, Honor All Veterans Interred at Evergreen Cemetery

Posted in Fundraisers, The Greatest Generation on September 24, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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Jacqueline Marcus

For the previous four years, the Barrington-based Signal Hill Chapter, NSDAR, has undertaken the task of raising funds to purchase individual wreaths for the community’s Wreaths Across America Day at Evergreen Cemetery, 600 Dundee Avenue, in Barrington, IL. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, December 16th, and the chapter asks for your help.

As with all things, the price of a wreath has increased from $15.00 to $17.00. While local DAR members privately donate toward the event costs, and local businesses and groups will donate, there is a known total of nearly 800 graves to be covered. Unfortunately, that number increases every year.

In addition to community participation, the chapter asks that individuals who could afford to purchase a wreath for general placement please visit http://WreathsAcrossAmerica.org/IL0113.

If you would like to purchase a wreath for specific placement for a loved one, but cannot attend, a DAR member will be honored to do the placement on your behalf. Should we reach our goal, any additional monies will be banked for the following year. The chapter also encourages community participation on the day of the event. Following a brief memorial service, citizens of the community will be encouraged to place wreaths on the nearly 800 identified Veterans’ graves at Evergreen.

Signal Hill, NSDAR is a Barrington based chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The 501(c)3 organization is dedicated to historical preservation, promotion of education, and encouragement of patriotic endeavors. For more information about membership requirements, the local chapter and its goals and accomplishments, please visit signalhilldar.com.

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Farewell forever to Netflix DVDs

Posted in Entertainment, Nostalgia, Topics Of Interest on September 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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On Friday, Netflix is shutting down its mail-order DVD service. Customers who still receive physical DVDs can hold on to the ones they have. “Please enjoy your final shipments for as long as you like!” the company wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. I misread this as “Please enjoy your final shipments for as long as you live!,” a chirpy and morbid send-off, conjuring images of a devoted Luddite breathing his last in a room littered with faded red envelopes and dusty remote controls.

This is not a eulogy for the DVD. I stopped receiving DVDs by mail more than a decade ago with little remorse. Or at least I think I did. I tried recently to access my complete Netflix viewing history only to discover that all DVD data is deleted 10 months after your subscription ends. Now I’m left with just my streaming history, which begins in 2009 with “Party Down,” a show which, for many reasons, feels recent and very much of the streaming era.

If I’m forlorn about anything, it’s the lost data. I can’t remember a single movie I watched on DVD from Netflix. I remember the first rentals my parents brought home to play on our hulking faux-bois VCR (Billy Wilder’s 1960 film “The Apartment,” “A Little Romance,” with Laurence Olivier and a teenage Diane Lane). I remember borrowing the comically gigantic laser disc of “Koyaanisqatsi” in the college library and renting “Say Anything” from Tower Video in the East Village.

These movies, these moments, are the pegs that threads of memory wind around. Who I was, what I did, how I felt at a moment in time. I rented Jim Jarmusch’s “Down by Law” from Kim’s Video, then I went and got steamed eggs at a cafe. I can see the video on the cafe table. I remember the winter coat I had. I wish I could recall the Netflix rentals, summon the memories that accompany them.

For a short time, Netflix had a feature that I loved called “Netflix Friends.” It allowed you to share your queue with friends and to see their star ratings for movies they’d watched. I remember adding ratings and comments to movies I’d seen before the launch of Netflix, so I could recommend them to friends.

Netflix canceled the Friends feature in 2010. I wish I’d kept track of each movie I watched and the ratings I gave them. Why did I give away the information? Why didn’t I save what could be a log of prompts to help spur memories of other eras, an archive of how I spent my time?

At the end of each year, the filmmaker Steven Soderbergh posts a list of everything he watched and read in the previous 12 months. I’ve been envious of this record, but for whatever reason, maybe because my intake seemed so feeble compared to Soderbergh’s, I’ve never kept a list of my own. That changes now. I downloaded my Netflix streaming history and plan to do so for all the streaming platforms that allow it. I’ll log my viewing in a notebook, be my own data collector, the custodian of my own cultural history.

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Reminder: The Barrington High School Homecoming parade is this morning

Posted in 220, Barrington High School, Board of Education, Nostalgia, Resident Spotlights, School Districts on September 23, 2023| 1 Comment »

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District 220 Board of Education President Sandra Fick-Bradford was seen leading a cheer during the 2022 Barrington Homecoming Parade. Hopefully District 220 purchased a LARGER selection of t-shirts sizes this year…

“The parade will begin promptly at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday, September 23, We will all meet in the COMMUTER LOT AT THE BARRINGTON TRAIN STATION IN DOWNTOWN BARRINGTON.

The parade will follow the traditional route from past years from Wool Street to Main Street, and west on Main Street toward BHS. If you have a float, please be at the commuter lot at 9:00 a.m.

THERE WILL BE NO CARS ALLOWED IN THE PARKING LOT THAT ARE NOT IN THE ACTUAL PARADE–please communicate this to all members of your group! When arriving the day of the parade, you will be designated a waiting area for your group and float (if applicable).”

Photos from the 2022 BHS Homecoming parade can be seen here.

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ESO String Quartet performs at Barrington Area Library tomorrow

Posted in Barrington Area Library, Entertainment, Property Taxes on September 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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Autumn officially begins on Sat, Sep 23, 2023, at 1:50 AM here in Barrington, and if you’re looking for a way to celebrate, we’ve got a few seats left for Sunday’s performance by the Elgin Symphony Orchestra String Quartet! Relax and enjoy beautiful, fall-inspired music – the concert is free and all ages are welcome. Sunday, Sept 24, 2 PM.

Register online to reserve your place here. Seating is limited, but drop in attendees may be admitted if seats remain open at show time.

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McHenry County Board votes to raise gasoline tax by 3.3 cents per gallon

Posted in BOHICA, County, McHenry, Politics, Taxes on September 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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Drivers stopping at McHenry County gas stations in 2024 will feel a little more of a pinch at the pump.

The McHenry County Board voted Tuesday to raise the county’s tax on gasoline next year to 8 cents per gallon from the current 4.7 cents per gallon.

Local drivers were generally displeased with the tax increase Wednesday.

“I just find the gas tax pathetic,” said Matthew Beyer, who works in Crystal Lake. “I spend too much on gas anyway.”

He wasn’t the only one.

“I’m glad I’m moving,” said Dan Seiwerth of Island Lake. “The taxes are a lot cheaper anywhere else.”

Read more here.

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