The restaurant and brewing house is honoring their quarter century at 128 W. Main St. with its first Brewfest Saturday.

The Crystal Lake Mariano’s is listed to be sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers if a merger between Kroger and Alberston’s is finalized pending a court case with the Federal Trade Commission.

The Records Department vinyl shop started in the Woodstock Old Courthouse through a city incubator program. Now the record shop has relocated to a larger space nearby.

Several McHenry County-area chambers are getting Back to Business grants from the state to offset the effects of the pandemic.

McHenry County radio station Star 105.5 is celebrating morning duo Joe and Tina's 15th anniversary on Thursday, July 11 at McHenry Outdoor Theatre.

Eighteen suburban eateries landed on the annual list that rewards restaurants whose wine lists offer interesting selections, are appropriate to their cuisine and appeal to a wide range of wine lovers.

Bronze winners included Crystal Lake Brewing for their brown porter Frozen Over; Sturdy Shelter Brewing in Batavia in the Munich-Style Dunkel category for Wilson Street Dunkel; and Double Clutch Brewing Co. in Evanston in the German-style Altbier.

Cary Apothecary, located at 395 Cary Algonquin Road, will be holding a grand opening at 4 p.m. Thursday. The shop sells gifts and items that are locally sourced like soy wax candles from Crystal Lake and honey from Woodstock.

The husband-and-wife team of Clint and Brook Carey opened The Milk House, 230 Reinking Road, in 2015 in the actual milk house from the Krumm Farm that had been in Brook Carey’s family since 1886.