RULES OF THE ROAD CLASSES

 SCHEDULED FOR CUBA TOWNSHIP

In conjunction with Secretary of State, Jesse White, Cuba Township will  present the Rules of the Road class.  The class is designed as a review for anyone needing to take the written portion of the  drivers’ examination.

 

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

9:30 am—11:30 am

Cuba Township office

28000 W. Cuba Road

Barrington

Please call the office at (847) 381-1924 for more information or to make a reservation.  The class is

offered at no charge, however a reservation is required.

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FINANCIAL  ASSISTANCE WITH

HEATING BILLS

FOR LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS

Cuba Township is pleased to administer 2 programs for low-income households to assist with the expense of heating bills.  LIHEAP (low income home energy assistance program) is funded locally and with federal grants to provide assistance to qualifying families and individuals.  If accepted, the funds will be applied directly to the NICOR account.  The SHARING program, offered through the Salvation Army, operates in a similar manner to LIHEAP.  Each program, however, maintains different qualifying income levels.  Please call the Township office at (847) 381-1924 to determine eligibility or to make an appointment to apply.

BACOA to offer AARP Income Tax Assistance,

help with telephone tax refund

 

                The Barrington Area Council on Aging, Inc. (BACOA) is once again offering the AARP Income Tax Assistance Program—and will also help seniors apply for a telephone tax refund.

 

A trained AARP volunteer will assist seniors with their taxes on Thursday and Friday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon at the BACOA office at the Prairieview Building at The Garlands of Barrington, 6000 Garlands Lane, Suite 100, Barrington.

 

Volunteers will also assist seniors—even those who are not filing income tax forms—to apply for the IRS one-time telephone tax refund. The refund is a one-time payment available on 2006 federal income tax returns, designed to refund previously collected long-distance federal excise taxes. It is available to anyone who paid long-distance taxes on landline, cell phone or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. The IRS will refund taxes on long-distance service billed for the period after Feb 28, 2003 and before Aug 1, 2006. The refunds will range between $30 to $60, based on the number of exemptions claimed on the tax return. .

 

Assistance is by appointment only and will run from February 1 through Thursday, April 13, 2007.

 

Appointments fill quickly, so call as early as possible to schedule an appointment. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call

BACOA at (847) 381-5030.

 

 

Highway.   This was directly on the Waukegan to Dundee stage and mail route.

 

Even some 60 years ago, recollections, that came more directly from the early pioneers, or their immediate descendants, could be at odds with the records we now have available.   Frank Hager was born in 1868 on a Cuba Road farm which had been sold to his family by a Mr. Gothard, who in turn had purchased from L.H. Bute, sometime after the 1861 map was published.  The Bute property was directly east of the Bullock property.  In the 1940s when Hager was talking with Arnett C. Lines, he recalled that the first post office was on the “Hecock”, (Wesley Hickock) property. 

 

None of the plat maps, however, show Wesley Hickock as a landowner in the vicinity of Cuba Road.  His name occurs on the 1885 plat map, further north in the township, but an 1888 map does note “Old Log P.O.” on what was the Bullock property.   It is possible that Wesley Hickock rented for a while from John Bullock before buying his own land.

 

In the next newsletter:  The reminiscences of Frank Hager and others, and the “rest of the story” of Cuba Township’s early Post offices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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