Added to the shopping list: one paintbrush for pollinating the paw paws. It’s all part of my master plan to bring native banana-type fruit to the H-F area. If my pollination program goes according to schedule, we may have a crop of the legendary paw paw fruit this fall. Or[Read More…]
Author: Tom Houlihan
Noisy give and take along our train building zone
Crashing. Banging. Clanging. At all hours of the day and night. Especially at night, when noise from the trains in our midst jars us from a good night’s sleep.Welcome to warm weather nights in Homewood and Flossmoor. Last fall, after a group of Flossmoor residents protested to the village board[Read More…]
Traffic signals at Meijer complex likely to be working next month
Get ready for one more traffic stop along Vollmer Road. With the addition of traffic signals in front of the soon-to-be-open Meijer superstore, the straight shot between Governors Highway and Crawford Avenue is about to end. Traffic lights at the main entrance to the Meijer complex were installed last[Read More…]
After 350 million years, what’s Thornton Quarry’s future?
If you do an online search for “Thornton Quarry tour,” here’s what comes up: “The Village of Thornton, in conjunction with the quarry owner, offers two tours a year, on the first Saturday of the month in June and October. There is a $20 charge. Participants must be at least[Read More…]
Budget proposals outline capital spending in Flossmoor next year
Flossmoor’s shopping list for the coming year includes two dump trucks, fire department air packs, a pair of squad cars, a heavy duty laser printer and new financial software. As village officials prepare the new municipal budget, it’s time to assess those items, big and small, that are used to[Read More…]
Era of great beer arrives and it’s good to be alive
It was beer heaven, or maybe the closest we’ll get to that exalted state. Along the walls of the spanking new Dolphin Lake Clubhouse, 10 craft brewers were handing out their product – hoppy ales, crisp lagers and porters that could make a grown man cry. Holding their pint glasses,[Read More…]
Flossmoor’s Winterfest – Santa, holiday fun and now a photo booth
Like a lot of holiday events, it started with Santa. A few years ago, Winterfest was born when the crimson-costumed symbol of the season made an early stop in Flossmoor for the annual holiday tree-lighting ceremony. After the electrification of the fir tree, holiday reveling continued for nearly three hours.[Read More…]
Debris, blown-out windows are evidence of fire that gutted Flossmoor house
All was quiet on Hagen Lane the morning after fire gutted a yellow brick house on the tree-lined Flossmoor street. Three fir trees, unharmed by the fire, stood tall against a cloudless blue sky. Bushes outside the house were still covered with Halloween decorations. Behind them, construction workers boarded up windows that[Read More…]
New Thornton reservoir ‘like no place else’ in the world
Tony Gaudry is a miner who works 300 feet underground – and a mile from Homewood. Since 2011, hehas shored up a 30-foot-high tunnel with steel, rebar and concrete, preparing four slots for steel doorsthat will slide open one morning in August, letting billions of gallons of storm water and[Read More…]
Parents are dedicated to fighting the disease that took their daughter
Meg, Dan and Olivia Kresach. (Provided photo) One year after losing their daughter Olivia to brain cancer, Dan and Meg Kresach are doing everything they can to defeat the killer disease. This month, Melody Mart in Homewood is hosting its Live For Liv Music-A-Thon to raise money for Voices Against[Read More…]
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