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Irene Michaels to Judge Tailgate Contest @ Annual LeCompte/Kalaway Polo Trailowners Cup 7/7/24

Posted in Don't Change Barrington Hills, Entertainment, Politics, Press Release, Save 5 Acres on September 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »

NEWS PROVIDED BY World Star PR

Multi-award winning singer Irene Michaels is honored to Judge the prestigious Tailgate Contest at the Annual LeCompte/Kalaway Polo Event, Chicagoland’s single largest polo event on September 7, 2024 at Barrington Hills Polo Club (250 Deepwood Road, Barrington Hills, Illinois). Each year both family and corporate tailgate spectators devote much effort and time in creating their spaces. Tailgate parties often occur in parking lots at stadiums, arenas and sports events before and after games, festivals and concerts. It is often seen as a critical part of the sports experience in the United States. Irene Michaels will be judging the event with Jane LePauw, Head of the Benjamin Marshall Foundation.

Tailgating builds the athletic,and community programs or events in the spirit of fans getting together in voluntary participation of these parties. It has become part of the classic American culture. Food, beer, and music is sometimes a part of the festivities. Regardless, it’s always a good time. Irene will be judging the creativity of these decorative parties.

Situated on the exclusive Oakwood Farms estate, the Polo Club and the event offers spectators an entertaining day with friends and family. In celebration of the equestrian lifestyle each year they offer a yearly tailgate competition which grows more popular each year. Irene and the other judges will be escorted via golf cart to all of the tailgaters while they make their final decision and choose the winner.

Following this festive event, Irene will be making her way to New York City to perform at “Pause For Peace”, a concert in celebration of International Peace Day in Times Square on September 21, 2024. Following that Irene will be heading to the already sold-out Josie Music Awards to perform on stage at the CMA Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on October 26 as last year’s winner and this years 2x nominee.

The official website for Irene Michaels may be found at https://www.irenemichaels.com

Source World Star PR

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Ribbon-cutting event being held Thursday for Longmeadow bridge

Posted in Algonquin Rd, BACOG, County, Deception, Don't Change Barrington Hills, Dumb and Dumber, Fat Bastard, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Kane, Land Use, Longmeadow Parkway, Politics, Property Taxes, Real Estate, Resident Spotlights, Resident Surveys, Road construction, Roads and Bridges, Save 5 Acres, SOS Party, Taxes, Topics Of Interest, Traffic, Transparency, Unions, Village President on August 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »

A ribbon-cutting event to celebrate the completion of the Longmeadow Parkway Corridor and the opening of the new bridge that crosses the Fox River will be held Thursday. (Kane County)

By MIKE DANAHEY | Elgin Courier-News

The completion of the Longmeadow Parkway Bridge Corridor will be celebrated with a ribbon-cutting event to be held at the Carpentersville bridge at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 29.

Years in planning and construction, the opening of the bridge is the last step in a significant development in Kane County infrastructure, “enhancing connectivity, improving
transportation efficiency and fostering economic growth,” a news release said.

The Longmeadow Parkway is a 5.6-mile stretch of road between Huntley Road and Route 62 that crosses through Carpentersville, Algonquin and Barrington Hills. Its centerpiece is the bridge that crosses over the Fox River.

Initially, the bridge was to be paid for with tolls but state legislators secured enough funding to cover the cost of construction bonds without requiring a user fee to pay for them. It is one of three regional bridges over the river in the northern Kane County area.

More here.

Related: “Recordings reveal 2006 Duda Property / Longmeadow Parkway ‘deal’”

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Zoning Board of Appeals meets Monday

Posted in Agendas, Animal Welfare, Barrington Hills Polo Club, Clown Car, Commercial Horse Boarding, Cook, County, ePacket agendas, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Horse Boarding, Land Use, LeCompte/Anderson Commercial Horse boarding amendment, Mad Cows, Mówimy po polsku, Politics, Property Taxes, Public Hearing, Riding Club Commission, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Save 5 Acres, Topics Of Interest, Traffic, Transparency, Unions, Village Code, Village Director of Administration, Village Government, WTF, Zoning Board on August 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Our Zoning Board of Appeals will be holding their regular monthly meeting tomorrow evening beginning at 6:30 PM. Topics on their agenda include:

Public Hearing

  • An Application for an Amendment to an Existing Special Use, made by the Barrington Hills Polo Club for property located at 350 Bateman Road, PIN 01- 07-200-001
  • Text Amendment to Section 5-3-9 Bulk Regulations Relative to Berm & Fence Heights Initiated by the Zoning Board of Appeals (tabled from July 15, 2024)

Public Meeting

  • [Vote] An Application for an Amendment to an Existing Special Use, made by the Barrington Hills Polo Club for property located at 350 Bateman Road, PIN 01-07-200-001
  • [Vote] Text Amendment to Section 5-3-9 Bulk Regulations Relative to Berm & Fence Heights Initiated by the Zoning Board of Appeals

A copy of the 100-page agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.

Editorial note: The two (2) public hearing notices published in the Daily Herald listed the PIN for 350 Bateman Road as 01- 07-200-001. The agenda for tomorrow’s meeting also states, “350 Bateman Road, PIN 01- 07-200-001.”

However, the notice sign (seen at top) on the subject property we photographed Friday clearly reads, “350 Bateman Road, PIN 01-06-401-014.” Not to pick at nits, but that isn’t even close.

Related: “Zoning Board Public Hearing (Take two) scheduled August 19th,” “Special Zoning Board of Appeals meeting tonight,” “Special Zoning Board Public Hearing scheduled for July 17th”

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It’s been a long time coming, but Longmeadow Parkway bridge just weeks away from opening

Posted in Algonquin Rd, Barrington Hills Farm, Barrington Hills Park District, BOHICA, Commercial Horse Boarding, County, Deception, Don't Change Barrington Hills, Dumb and Dumber, Ethics, FUBAR, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Kane, Land Disconnection, Land Use, Open Meetings Act, Politics, Privacy, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Real Estate, Resident Spotlights, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Roads & Bridges Committee, Save 5 Acres, SOS Party, Taxes, Topics Of Interest, Unions, Village Board, Village Government, Village President on August 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Construction of the Longmeadow Parkway bridge over the Fox River is nearly finished and could open later this month after decades of discussion, planning and construction. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

By GLORIA CASAS | ELGIN COURIER-NEWS

After nearly three decades of planning and construction, the new four-lane Longmeadow Parkway bridge over the Fox River in northern Kane County is nearly ready to open.

Although a date has not be announced, Kane County officials say a tentative ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for later this month. It’s the final piece in the Longmeadow Parkway, a 5.6-mile stretch of road between Huntley Road and Route 62 that crosses through Carpentersville, Algonquin and Barrington Hills.

“The construction contract’s completion date is Sept. 15,” Kane County spokeswoman Julie Mann said. “There’s a possibility that the contractor may finish the project soon, but it is still too early to tell at this point.”

Contractors need to complete bike path paving, pavement striping, traffic signals and landscaping before it’s ready for use, Mann said.

While most of the road is now open and construction of the bridge itself was done in 2020, completion of work near the bridge took years longer than anticipated. Lead was discovered near the site and had to be removed and final paving from Sandbloom/Williams Road east to the Bolz Road connector needed to be done.

“Everyone is happy that it’s finally completed,” Carpentersville Village President John Skillman said.

Read more here.

Related: “Recordings reveal 2006 Duda Property / Longmeadow Parkway ‘deal’”

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“Forest Preserve Master Plan Presentation for Horizon Farm & Spring Creek” presentation postponed, location changed

Posted in Agendas, Barrington Hills Park District, Barrington Hills Polo Club, Deception, Don't Change Barrington Hills, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Fox River Valley Hunt, FPDCC, FRVPC, Goat Rodeo, Horizon Farm, Horse Boarding, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), LeCompte/Anderson Commercial Horse boarding amendment, Massbach Hounds, Politics, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Real Estate, Riding Center Advisory Committee, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Save 5 Acres, Taxes, Transparency, Unions on November 1, 2023| Leave a Comment »

FPDCC White House

The Forest Preserve District of Cook County will present their long-term plans December 13th at Barrington’s White House.

The Barrington Hills Park District (Riding Club) posted the following on October 20th after previously publishing this meeting occur on November 8th:

“Share your thoughts about  future development of Horiszon Farm and Spring Creek. The Park District will present your comments to the Forest Preserve representatives.

The next Forest Preserve Presentation will be:

Dec. 13, 2023  at 7:00 pm
Please note this is a change in date and location

Where:
Barrington’s White House
145 W. Main Street, Barrington, IL 60010
224.512.4284
Barrington White House 

What:
The Forest Preserve District of Cook County (FPDCC) developed a long-term, comprehensive master plan for Horizon Farm and Spring Creek which they will share with the public.

You are welcome to attend the meeting to learn the details of how this plan addresses conservation and recreational issues.

Learn more information about the FPDCC’s Master Plan.p”

As we shared in a previous post, “It’s concerning recommendations are being sent to the Park District only instead copying officials at the Forest Preserves of Cook County.

Therefore, we strongly encourage residents save their suggestions submitted to the Park District, and utilize the official Forest Preserves of Cook County Contact Form to directly communicate those recommendations under the, ‘Planning and Development,’ category. Make sure your comments reference, ‘Future development of Horizon Farm and Spring Creek.’”

Related: “Barrington Hills Park District soliciting recommendations regarding, ‘Future development of Horizon Farm and Spring Creek’

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Barrington Hills Park District Board meets tonight

Posted in Agendas, Animal Welfare, Barrington Hills Park District, Barrington Hills Polo Club, Commercial Horse Boarding, Countryside Elementary School, Deception, Ethics, Fox River Valley Hunt, FPDCC, FRVPC, Horizon Farm, Horse Boarding, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Land Use, Mad Cows, Politics, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Real Estate, Riding Center Advisory Committee, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Save 5 Acres, The Other Half, Topics Of Interest, Unions on September 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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The Barrington Hills Park District Board will hold their monthly meeting this evening in person and via Zoom at 7:00 PM. Topics on their agenda include:

  • Indoor Arena Window Proposal
  • Adopt A Policy To Authorize Electronic Attendance At Board Meetings For Commissioners And The Public
  • Maintenance: Remove Buckthorn Next To Front Dumpster, and
  • Portable Ice Skating Rink

A copy of their agenda can be viewed here. Instructions for accessing the meeting remotely can be found here.

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Equestrian Commission meets tonight

Posted in Agendas, Audio recordings, Barrington Hills Park District, Big Red, Conflict of interest, Deception, Entertainment, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Fox River Valley Hunt, FPDCC, FRVPC, Horizon Farm, Horse Boarding, Land Use, Lighting Ordinance, Massbach Hounds, Organizations, Politics, Property Taxes, Real Estate, Riding Center Advisory Committee, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Save 5 Acres, Topics Of Interest, Unions, Village Director of Administration on September 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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The Equestrian Commission will hold a meeting this evening at 6:30 PM.  Though scheduled to meet quarterly, this will be their first meeting in a year.

Topics on this evening’s agenda are:

  • Equestrian Trail Subdivision Easements, and
  • Equestrian Trail Licenses

A copy of the agenda can be viewed here.

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Polo Among Friends

Posted in Animal Welfare, Barrington Hills Park District, Barrington Hills Polo Club, Don't Change Barrington Hills, Entertainment, Equestrian Commission, Fox River Valley Hunt, FRVPC, Fundraisers, HARPS, Horizon Farm, Horse Boarding, Land Use, News Media, Nostalgia, Politics, Real Estate, Resident Spotlights, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Save 5 Acres, Your Barrington Hills on July 8, 2023| 2 Comments »

JR Feature QB

John Rosene and the Barrington Hills Polo Club offers a nationally recognized polo school for newcomers to the sport helping generations of families play together on the field

When John Rosene was a boy of 9 years old, his mother signed him up for a horse-riding lesson at the Starlight Stable in Skokie. It was something to keep him busy, not a family tradition. He joined other children from his neighborhood on the bus ride over but didn’t make it to the trail ride. “When they put me on the horse, I was so scared that I got off and stayed at the barn while the other kids rode off,” Rosene said.

A few years later, the Rogers Park native attended a summer riding school at the Northwestern Stables in Morton Grove, now called Freedom Woods. Rosene started at the beginner’s level with the five-day-a-week program where each student learned how to saddle, ride, and hose down the horse, then letting their horse graze while holding its lead line. At 14, he took a job at the same barn where he learned to ride, having 21 horses in his daily care. Feeding, watering, and cleaning the tack and stalls was compensated with two dollars a day—and all the riding he could get in.

At 16, with his driver’s license and a car, Rosene took a job at the same barn for $200 a month and did that for a couple of years before college. “Very few boys stuck with horse riding by that age, so besides being able to ride as much as I could, all the girls were the attraction,” he said with his classic sense of humor.

Rosene bought his first horse during his college years during a gap year in Texas. Having returned to Northwestern University, he met his future wife, Karen, who he intended to impress with his horse-riding skills in a PE class. The two finished school in 1962, and married two years later. They each bought a horse and found an old dairy barn, through some friends, for boarding.

Read the full Quintessential Barrington feature story here.

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After 8-year fight, judge says Barrington Hills horse boarding law is constitutional

Posted in Animal Welfare, Barrington Hills Polo Club, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, FRVPC, Land Use, LeCompte/Anderson Commercial Horse boarding amendment, Politics, Public Safety, Real Estate, Resident Spotlights, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Save 5 Acres, Unions, Village Attorney, Village Board, Village Code, Village President, Your Barrington Hills, Zoning Board on April 28, 2023| 1 Comment »

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A Cook County judge has ruled a Barrington Hills ordinance allowing commercial horse boarding at Oakwood Farms and other places to be constitutional, rejecting arguments that conspiracy and corruption were the basis of its adoption. (Daily Herald file photo, 2011)

A Cook County judge has called constitutional a Barrington Hills ordinance permitting commercial horse boarding as a home-occupation business in the historically equestrian-friendly village, rejecting claims of corruption.

The 8-year-old litigation that resulted in a 21-day trial was born of a neighbor dispute that dominated local politics in Barrington Hills for a time about a dozen years ago.

“I believe it vindicates a number of people,” said attorney James Kelly, who represented a party of intervenors in plaintiff Jim Drury’s lawsuit against the village. “I think it was a good decision.”

Drury — who lives next door to Benjamin and Cathleen LeCompte’s Oakwood Farms, where a 60-horse commercial boarding operation existed — argued the facility’s imposition on his residential peace and quiet clearly was forbidden by existing village code regulating home-occupation businesses in 2011.

Drury tried through lawsuits, newspaper advertisements and official testimony to suggest village officials at that time were refusing to acknowledge this and instead were pandering to the Riding Club of Barrington Hills and other equestrian interests.

While Drury conceded the LeComptes had the right to keep 60 of their own horses on the 130-acre property, he said the number of employees and clients that visited his residential neighborhood most days clearly marked Oakwood Farms as a commercial enterprise.

In claiming political motivations in the village, Drury pointed to $5,000 donations LeCompte made to each of the trustee candidates then-Village President Robert Abboud supported in the 2011 election — Joe Messer, Karen Selman and Patty Meroni.

That money was returned to LeCompte when the State Board of Elections determined he had not been properly identified by the candidates as the original source of the funding.

Read more here.

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Today is the Illinois Day of the Horse!

Posted in Animal Welfare, Barrington Hills Park District, Barrington Hills Polo Club, Commercial Horse Boarding, Equestrian Commission, Fox River Valley Hunt, FPDCC, FRVPC, Horizon Farm, Horse Boarding, Land Use, Mane in Heaven, Massbach Hounds, Real Estate, Riding Center Advisory Committee, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Save 5 Acres, SOUL Harbour Ranch, Springfield, The Other Half, TMI, Unions on March 5, 2023| 1 Comment »

National-Day-of-The-Horse

On August 22, 2018, the Illinois State Commemorative Dates Act was amended to include:

Sec. 195. Day of the Horse. The fifth day of March of each year shall be designated as the Day of the Horse, to be observed throughout the State as a day to encourage citizens to honor and celebrate the role of equines in the history and character of Illinois, and to recognize the benefits of the equine industry to the economy, agriculture, tourism, and quality of life in Illinois.

For the benefit of those who may be new to our Village, we’d like to provide a list of a few Village Codes applicable to the keeping of horses in Barrington Hills.  In no particular order, they are:

  • APPLICATION FOR LICENSE: As a condition to his or her use of the equestrian trails located in the village, every owner of a horse shall file an application with the village clerk or his designee, setting forth the name and address of the applicant and a description of the horse for which the license is desired. The annual fee to be paid for an equestrian trail license is ten dollars ($10.00). All such licenses issued under this section 8-5-2 shall expire on April 30 following the date of issuance.
  • MANURE PILES: It shall be unlawful to: (A) Pile manure from horses or ponies, or permit it to accumulate, closer than one hundred feet (100′) from the property line of the property on which a horse is kept. (B) Permit a pile or accumulation of manure for more than one week except in the months of December through March inclusive at any location within three hundred fifty feet (350′) of the nearest dwelling house of another.
  • BOARDING AND TRAINING OF HORSES: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this subsection (D), the boarding of horses in a stable and the training of horses and their riders shall be a permitted home occupation; provided, that no persons engaged to facilitate such boarding, other than the immediate family residing on the premises, shall be permitted to carry out their functions except between the hours of eight o’clock (8:00) A.M. and eight o’clock (8:00) P.M. or sunset, whichever is later, and further provided that no vehicles or machinery, other than that belonging to the immediate family residing on the premises shall be permitted to be operated on the premises except during the hours of eight o’clock (8:00) A.M. and eight o’clock (8:00) P.M. or sunset, whichever is later. (Ord. 16-22, 12-7-2016)
  • Lighting for outdoor activities, including: pool areas, tennis courts, paddle courts, hockey and/or skating rinks, horse arenas; provided such lighting shall be extinguished by eleven o’clock (11:00) P.M.

Questions, comments or concerns can be directed to the Village Equestrian Commission here, or to the Trustee Liaison to the Commission, Laura S. Ekstrom, here.

HAPPY TRAILS to you and yours!

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