Between January 2007 and now, the village has taken down 899 trees. Let’s call it 900. This doesn’t count trees taken down on private property (the village has no way to track that), trees on park district land, or school district land. The village planted 1,127 trees in that same time frame. More trees going [...]
On July 26th the Trib ran an article about the the toxic solvent perchloroethylene, also known as PCE or perc, having contaminated soil or posing a threat to nearby water supplies. We here around DG already had our toxic waste problems, big enough that large unincorporated areas were involuntarily hooked into the municipal water supply [...]
On Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 8:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. in Parking Lot H of the Belmont Road Train Station, the Park District and the village will host the second Recycling Extravaganza. Same as last year, this event is being held before Amnesty Day, when DG tosses a lot of trash that can be [...]
Grasshopper Shuttle, a DG based private door-to-door transport service, will seek to buy Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) from the village. Council will talk it over at Tuesday’s workshop and probably approve the contract the following week.
As in, get that brush off the parkway. It’s been three weeks since a storm powered by 70 mph winds rained branches (and even a few trees) down on Downers Grove yards and parkways. Yet, the moldering remains still dot many local streets, bearing witness to the hope that some congenial tree service engaged by [...]
Don’t worry about that dog barking at 6am Monday June 1st, EJ. Monday is scheduled for the second wave of Gypsy Moth spraying, from 5am-10am in the morning. The morning spray hits them at their most vulnerable time of day when the caterpillars are out and about starting to munch leaves, and when the day [...]
Had a hard time sleeping until my usual 6:45 a.m. today. I had this scary dream about low-flying aircraft strafing a peaceful village and turning frightened residents out of their beds in just enough time to make a death-defying run for cover. “Get the children,” I called frantically to my husband as the sound of [...]
Two years ago the Village Forester Kerstin G. von der Heide gave a presentation about the Emerald Ash Borer and the certain doom bearing down on over 4,000 ash trees on village parkways. Back then the tiny pest had already killed off about 25 million ash trees in Michigan and Canada.
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