Flossmoor School District 161’s fall transportation woes may not be as dire as originally anticipated. In June, Associate Superintendent Fran LaBella cautioned the board of education that transportation may end up being a “nightmare” because of a shortage of bus drivers poised to disrupt a return to normal routes. While transportation provider[Read More…]
Author: Bill Jones
D161 hears new plan for streaming tech, shifts asphalt repair project, settles lawsuit
Flossmoor School District 161 could get back to streaming its board of education meetings and more in the near future. Superintendent Dana Smith pitched a streaming technology improvement plan to the district’s board of education on Monday, July 19, that would see the district pay $26,557 to Pentegra Systems for[Read More…]
Safety measures take center stage in District 161’s fall reopening discussions
Flossmoor School District 161 knows it will be returning to in-person learning this fall. The question is how to do that as safely as possible. Superintendent Dana Smith said guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has directly influenced the district’s reopening plan. But he told the board[Read More…]
District 161 planning $60K in emergency playground repairs
In the face of labor and supply shortages that have complicated Flossmoor High School District 161’s need to replace several of its playgrounds, staff is aiming to complete roughly $60,000 in repairs “immediately” until the bigger picture can be tackled in the summer of 2022. Associate Superintendent Fran LaBella presented[Read More…]
Phillies claim championship in a festive finale to Flossmoor Baseball’s Bronco League season
The Phillies are the 2021 Flossmoor Baseball Bronco League champions. They bested the Yankees 11-10 Wednesday, July 14, in a back-and-forth game that lived up to the hype of the festivities surrounding it. Things were all knotted up at 6-6, and then again at 10-10 in the sixth following a[Read More…]
Flossmoor purchases sewer cleaner for $358,920, fills Zoning Board vacancy
Family eyes Flossmoor Commons for soul food restaurant, requests liquor license
Later this year, Flossmoor Commons could be home to a new soul food restaurant if all goes according to plan for a local family. Tabitha Hopkins and her brother Iyare Egonmwan asked the Flossmoor Village Board on Tuesday, July 6, for a liquor license for Not Just Sundays, a soul[Read More…]
D161’s playgrounds in ‘poor shape,’ but how to proceed is no easy question
An inspection of Flossmoor School District 161’s elementary school playgrounds has confirmed what the district suspected: with “few exceptions,” the district’s playgrounds are in “poor shape,” per village documents. But what to do about that and when is complicated. Associate Superintendent Frances LaBella during a board of education meeting Monday,[Read More…]
D161 facing bus driver shortage for summer school, possibly the same this fall
Flossmoor School District 161 may have to get creative in how it transports students to school this fall, with a shortage of bus drivers poised to disrupt a return to normal routes.
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