Dear Residents,

The Village Hall and Police Department administrative offices are closed on Monday, September 4 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. Administrative offices will reopen on Tuesday, September 5 at 8 a.m. If you require police assistance, do not hesitate to call 9-1-1. Village Police Officers work around the clock and respond 24/7, 365 days a year.

As a reminder in observance of Labor Day, September 4, Groot will collect garbage and recycling on Tuesday, September 5. Please do not place your carts out before 3 p.m. on Monday or later than 6 a.m. on Tuesday. 

The front parking lot at the Village Hall is now open and available for visitor parking. Starting next week, visitors will be unable to park in the Police lot and the far west parking lot due to maintenance. Please use the Village Hall parking lot during this time. Upon entering Village Hall, a staff member will accompany you to the Police Department.  For up-to-date information regarding this project and parking lot access, please check our Village website.  This schedule could change due to weather.

Saturday, September 9, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. the Village will host a Document Destruction Recycling Event at Village Hall, 30 S. Barrington Road, in the back parking lot adjacent to the Police Department. Residents from South Barrington and other SWANCC communities are eligible to participate. Please only bring the paper documents in paper bags or cardboard boxes.  Materials will not be accepted from businesses, schools, or institutions at this event. Please bring your ID for verification of residency. For more information on this document destruction event, please read below.

A week from this Sunday on September 10, beginning at 9 a.m. and concluding at noon, will be our first ever “Plant the Conservancy Streambanks” event. Volunteers will meet at the end of Bridges Drive at the ‘Circle’ (please park in the last parking lot just north of Bridges Drive – and not on Bridges Drive). We will be planting native plant seedlings along the streambanks in order to ‘outcompete’ the invasive plants that have recently dominated the area as well as stabilize the streambanks to attract butterflies and other pollinators. The event is being coordinated by the Flint Creek / Spring Creek Watershed Partnership.  Coordinator, Jeff Weiss, will be supplying tools and on-site training.

Volunteers are encouraged to bring work gloves and rakes (if you have them). People of all ages are invited and this will be a family-friendly activity, and no experience is necessary. Children under 14 will need parental supervision. This event is co-sponsored by the North Cook County Soil & Water Conservation District, the Illinois Department of Agriculture, the South Barrington Park District, the Barrington Area Community Foundation, Manhard Consulting, the Flint Creek / Spring Creek Watershed Partnership and the Village of South Barrington. The project is possible through grant funding from the co-sponsors participating in the project. So far, a total of 23 volunteers are expected for the event, including several Barrington High School Students and a contingent of Cub Scouts. The project this year is the first year of a three-year initiative to replant the streambanks with ‘plugs’ and seeds of native prairie and wetland plants that have been selected to spread rapidly and outcompete invasive species. I hope you will join us.  If you would like to participate, please contact Village Administrator Bob Palmer at rpalmer@southbarrington.org.

In case you have noticed flags and utility markings on Penny Road, north of the southern part of the Woods of South Barrington, we have been told that this is a result of some curb maintenance and other repairs which will be taking place.

The Village and Police department would like to congratulate and thank Officer Gregory Dubinski for his 26 years of service. We wish him the best in his retirement!  Greg is seated in the center seat in the photo below.

The weather cooperated and Cub Scout Pack 287 had a successful rocket launch on Tuesday (pictures below). To find out more about Cub Scout Pack 287 and what they are about visit their website.

You can always reach me by email at pmccombie@southbarrington.org on our website. Anonymous comment boxes are also available in the lobbies of Village Hall and the Police Department. I read anonymous messages privately, so please do not hesitate to contact me.

Enjoy the long holiday weekend!

Paula McCombie
Mayor

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