All over Flossmoor, families are getting ready for the hallmark of a great summer: Flossmoor Baseball and Softball. The annual tradition, which began more than five decades ago, continues to draws young players, their siblings, parents and even the family dog to parks all over town for an evening of America’s favorite pastime.[Read More…]

Let’s say you go to the grocery store twice a week. After each trip, you bring home four plastic grocery sacks and an equal number of produce bags. That’s 16 plastic bags a week or, in a year’s time, more than 800 bags. H-F High School broadcasting students, from left, HaleyAtherton, Ted Wick,  KaseyNemitz,[Read More…]

Back by popular demand, the Rising Star Showcase spotlights six gifted student musicians in concert at 4:30 p.m., April 12, at the Prairie State College Auditorium.   Presented by Friends of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, this fifth Rising Star Showcase presents “performance-ready” young artists from throughout the region, each recommended[Read More…]

When Betsy read the story, did she struggle sounding out the words? Was the vocabulary easy for her? Could she tell her reading group what the story was about? Could she write a paragraph about the premise?   Those basic comprehension and literacy skills for first through eighth graders are at the heart[Read More…]

With the average water consumption for each house in Flossmoor at about 27,000 gallons every three months, a proposed water rate could increase the average homeowner’s water bill by $28.62 per quarter, or about $10 a month. Flossmoor water rates are likely to go up 9.1 percent for the new[Read More…]

Michael Gislason (Provided photo) Scholastic Bowl coaches from around Illinois voted Homewood-Flossmoor High School junior Michael Gislason to the All-State competitors team. Of 48 top students nominated, only 20 are named to the all-state team at the Illinois High School Association’s Scholastic Bowl tournament. The top 10 were named to the[Read More…]

Andy Offutt Irwin Bil Lepp April brings two evenings of stellar storytelling to Homewood, according to news releases from Homewood Public Library and Homewood Stories. The library will host two internationally recognized tellers, Andy Offutt Irwin and Bil Lepp, in a show for adults at 7 p.m. Monday, April 20. [Read More…]

As Flossmoor School District 161 continues work on a five-year strategic plan, parents and other residents are being asked to weigh in on areas of concern in the local schools. In a March 27 message to the district community, Superintendent Craig Doster asked stakeholders to complete a survey on several[Read More…]

The voters in Homewood-Flossmoor High School District 233 gave the incumbents their support on Tuesday. Election results show John Farrell, Tim Wenckus, Debbie Berman and Jody Scariano won four-year terms on the board in what one member said is a mandate to continue the work they have been doing for the students of[Read More…]

With only 148 votes separating the first and fourth place finishers, the race for the Flossmoor School District 161 Board of Education was the tightest contest on Election Day 2015. Three of six candidates — one incumbent and two newcomers — prevailed in Tuesday’s school board election. Incumbents came out on top[Read More…]