A ukelele is one of a number of items that can be checked out from Home Public Library’s Library of Things. (Marilyn Thomas/H-F Chronicle) Did you know you now can check out the handheld gaming Nintendo Switch, or a ukulele, or a backyard game from the Homewood Public Library? The[Read More…]
Author: Marilyn Thomas
Homewood schools $24.5 million budget adopted
The District 153 school board adopted a 2021-22 budget of $24.5 million at its Sept. 13 board meeting. Due to expenses of $26.5 million, the budget shows a deficit of $2 million, according to John Gibson, the district’s chief school finance officer. The board is rectifying the deficit by using[Read More…]
Flag on display at racquet club thanks to Army veteran
Jerry Vankus, in blue shirt, gets an assist from Homewood-Flossmoor Park District staff member Leonard Klemp as the flag is raised in front of the H-F Racquet & Fitness Club. Vankus donated the pole and flag. Standing behind Vankus are fellow veterans Barry Milliken, 94, and Leo Wolfson, 103. (Marilyn[Read More…]
Stroke victim happy to return to tennis at H-F racquet club
Gregory Moore has a 45-year attachment to the game of tennis. After he suffered a stroke, he was down but refused to be counted out. Moore, of Homewood, remembers being on the tennis courts at the Homewood-Flossmoor Racquet and Fitness Club in February. He stepped back to reach the ball[Read More…]
H-F High’s DEI coordinator Catherine Ross Cook says all input is welcome
“The heart of equity work is that we’re all at the table together doing this work. That is the heart of it,” said Catherine Ross Cook, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) coordinator for District 233. After 12 years in the classroom at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Cook stepped into the[Read More…]
Park district considers a community center concept for H-F Racquet & Fitness Club
The H-F Racquet & Fitness Club needs some changes. But Homewood-Flossmoor Park District commissioners are in a quandary about what to do with the facility, on what timeline and at what expense. Commissioners have looked at the issue before, but at the Sept. 7 meeting they decided to start a[Read More…]
Elected officials consider vaccine mandates for village, library, park staffs
Vaccine mandates aren’t currently in place for employees at Homewood and Flossmoor village halls, parks and libraries but they could be in the future. The spread of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus led Gov. J.P. Pritzker on Aug. 26 to require mask mandates when in indoor spaces, and[Read More…]
Service group dissolves due, in part, to COVID
District 153 first district to begin SHIELD testing for COVID
District 153 set in motion a weekly testing of students against the COVID-19 disease. Superintendent Scott McAlister said nearly all of the 700 students and staff at Willow, Churchill and James Hart Schools will be tested using the SHIELD test developed by the University of Illinois. Parents have the option[Read More…]
H-F High reports budget of $61.8 million for 2021-22 school year
The District 233 school board is set to pass a $61.87 million budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year at its Sept. 21 board meeting. The overall budget of $61.87 million shows $59.4 million in revenue leaving a deficit of $2.46 million. District 233 Business Manager Lawrence Cook said that drop[Read More…]
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