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First two outside services bids in 2010 come in under budget. Council will consider two bids for tree services Tuesday, the first two bid proposals before council for 2010. The first is for stump and tree removal awarded to Homer Tree Care, Inc. of Lockport IL.  The approved FY10 budget provides $180,000 in the General [...]

Director of Public Works Naneil Newlon gave a report to council tonight, an update on tree concerns along Prairie Avenue.  Three additional trees to those already taken out will also be lost.  A fourth, the huge sycamore at the corner of Forest and Prairie on private property, will be severely trimmed back for newly located [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fair warning:  do not proceed unless you have an interest in Lyman Woods.  There’s a bunch of pictures involved here. As a bonus for those who despair of another long and boring post, at the very end I included a picture of a bunch of really hot naked chicks.

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.