“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events, Small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt Great minds discuss ideas and that is the basis for 411. Yet daily, the comments sections and even some of the stories discuss people and events. You can label them WU, Steve, Stan, or for that matter Team Jacob...
At last Thursday’s village board meeting, issues were presented that seemed insurmountable and overwhelming (emerald ash borer and the riverwalk). These issues are causing the village board to become stagnant and not able to move forward and in some situations, may be causing regress. So how can we get beyond these insurmountable challenges and...
I-want to thank Tim Allen and Tony Reyes for holding a meeting this past Thursday July 7th at Village Hall and allowing me to speak. I introduced myself and explained that I had suffered a brain injury and needed to read my statement because of the rehab I have been going through. Steve Romanelli...
Letter to the Editor: Our community is now faced with significant and challenging decisions. The difficulty for all of us is to recognize the pitfalls of continuing business as usual. We need to get beyond old myths and old ways to a whole new approach. We need to break the interest group Winfield United’s...
Before I was married, I heard the adage that too many couples spend a year planning their wedding and expend no effort planning their lives together. This spring I ran as a trustee candidate for the Winfield Village Board. The campaign season was typical for Winfield. There was official misconduct, anonymous letters, village hall...
TNT also known as dynamite is an effective tool in the right hands. Often used to create roads, remove obstacles and unearth the fuel of our economy, it seems that the village of Winfield is in the need of some TNT, in this case, Tim Allen and Tony Reyes. Without alignment to external interests,...
I have learned that Winfield trustee candidates Glenn VadeBonCoeur, Cliff Mortenson and Jim Hughes have claimed that they will self-fund their election campaigns. Trustee VadeBonCoeur says, “Candidates who accept money from outside interests are likely to give favors to those interests, at the expense of our residents.” I am shocked and amazed that after...
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