The Village of Plainfield encourages residents to employ these handy tips to protect their yard’s water quality this spring: Recycle winter debris. Lawns and gardens need to be raked out to remove the leaves, twigs, and branches deposited during winter storms. Use this material as the base for a new compost pile or chop [...]
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Protect Your Yard’s Water Quality This Spring
By Plainfield IL on Saturday, March 31st, 2012 | No Comments
Aggregation: Read This Before You Vote
By Plainfield IL on Saturday, March 17th, 2012 | No Comments
When Plainfield voters go to the polls on Tuesday, they’ll be asked to answer this referendum question: “Shall the Village of Plainfield have the authority to arrange for the supply of electricity for its residential and small commercial retail customers who have not opted out of such a program?” What does that mean? It’s [...]
Read More...Police Doing RR Crossing Checks This Week
By Plainfield IL on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 | No Comments
The Plainfield Police Department, working with Canadian National Railway police, will be conducting railroad crossing enforcement checks this week. Among the ticketable offenses they’ll be looking for are drivers who disobey activated railroad signals or stop on top of train tracks or within the railroad crossing. They’ll also cite pedestrians who trespass on railroad [...]
Read More...This Year’s Great Read Blasts Off with ‘Rocket Boys’
By Plainfield IL on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 | No Comments
Plainfield area residents looking to blast off into a new book can share the experience with their fellow readers in this year’s Great Read community reading program. Rocket Boys by Home Hickam Jr., published in 1998, is this year’s choice for the Plainfield area Great Read program, which kicks off at 7 p.m. Feb. [...]
Read More...Biz Q&A: At This Agency, You’re in Greg Milton’s Hands
By Plainfield IL on Sunday, January 29th, 2012 | No Comments
Every week Plainfield Patch profiles new businesses that have chosen to call Plainfield home. Business name: Milton Group Inc./Allstate Insurance Address: 13717 S. U.S. 30, Suite 137, 60544 Owner’s name: Greg Milton Phone number: 815-553-2644 Web site: http://www.allstateagencies.com/GMILTON/Welcomehttp://www.facebook.com/MiltonGroup Opening date: July 1, 2011 Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday throughThursday; [...]
Read More...Midwest Brew Fest’s a Go for This Year, But Organizers Warned to Toe the Line
By Plainfield IL on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 | No Comments
The Midwest Brewers Festival will be back this August, but with two mandates from the Plainfield Village Board: Make money for the riverfront and meet every deadline set by village staff. In other words, an event that makes only $167 and that goes down to the wire on such issues as permits and insurance [...]
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