Joe Mancini Joe Mancini, an employee in the Homewood Department of Public Works since 2001, was promoted to fleet supervisor July 3.  He will be responsible for more than 400 pieces of equipment, including 45 public works vehicles and 22 police squad cars.  Mancini has been a mechanic since[Read More…]

  Betina Gozo ​is a finalist in the Next Fitness Star   contest. (Provided photo)  Betina Gozo was a dedicated band member and an all-around music enthusiast. Now she’s a gym guru and fitness superstar. She says she’s lived the best of two very different worlds.   Fulfilling and eventually letting go of[Read More…]

  From left, Kevin and   Dana Pries and Angela   and Willian Dunnett   are dressed for the   occasion of the Blind   Tiger’s opening. (Photo   by Eric Crump/H-F   Chronicle)  It looks like a wine cellar. At the bottom of the stairs in the Copper Still Martini Bar at 1961 Ridge Road in Homewood, the small landing has one wall[Read More…]

South Suburban College, 15800 S. State St. in South Holland, is offering a substitute teacher class in the fall semester. Participants will learn techniques that will help in the classroom, including how to create a learning environment, teaching strategies for working with multiple learning styles and creating a lesson plan[Read More…]

What are the inner workings of a microwave oven? How about a cash register? A computer printer?    Shawn Needham of  Computer Doctor got down  to five-year-old Kamryn  Bullock’s level to explain  the workings of a power  drive. (Photos by Marilyn   Thomas/H-F Chronicle)  Kids from age 5 through 15 got to experience first hand how simple machines[Read More…]

Nearly a dozen entertainers will be featured at the Southland Acoustic Music Festival on Saturday, Aug. 26, in Park Forest.  The 1 to 7 p.m. program will be on the grounds of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church, 70 Sycamore Drive. The music performances are set for outdoors, but will move[Read More…]

The Homewood village board amended the local fire code at the July 11 meeting.  Trustees approved a change prohibiting the manual override of strobe lights in buildings connected to alarm systems. It can makes things more confusing for emergency services if the lights are deactivated before police and fire arrive,[Read More…]

Viewpoint:  The commentary below represents the ideas, observations and opinions of the author. Truth be told, I felt terrible about the vacant real estate just behind our house.   Tom Houlihan For weeks, we had watched our prospective neighbors as they tidied up the structure just to the south, and carried[Read More…]

Truth be told, I felt terrible about the vacant real estate just behind our house.   Tom Houlihan For weeks, we had watched our prospective neighbors as they tidied up the structure just to the south, and carried out little improvements. “They’re really hard workers,” I’d tell my wife Patty.[Read More…]

Prairie State College (PSC) adjunct professor of music Alexandra Green was recognized as an Outstanding Part-Time Faculty Award winner.   Alexandra Green Green is the first PSC adjunct faculty member to receive the award. She was recognized at the 2017 Illinois Community College Trustees Association awards ceremony June 2 in[Read More…]