Homewood Public Library Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. in the library, 17917 Dixie Highway. When it’s available, the agenda will be found here. Homewood-Flossmoor Park District Community Input Meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in The Clubhouse at Dolphin Lake, Governors Highway and 183rd Street in Homewood. The district[Read More…]
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H-F High school board looks for ways to improve IB Program
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme at Homewood-Flossmoor High School needs to be revamped, staff told members of the District 233 Planning Committee at its Oct. 11 meeting. The goal is to change from a restrictive program to one that offers a greater number of students a chance to be[Read More…]
Governors State’s Social Justice Initiative hosts Oct. 16 event
Governors State University’s (GovState) Social Justice Initiative (SJI) is launching a Justice Corner Series, a discussion space featuring scholar activists that are advocating for social justice in America and around the world. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Social Justice Building on Governors State University campus,[Read More…]
FEMA Disaster Recovery Center opens Homewood
A FEMA/State Disaster Recovery Center will open on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Homewood Auditorium, 2010 Chestnut Road, to help residents with recovery from the July 13-16 severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding. Specialists from FEMA, the state of Illinois and the U.S. Small Business Administration will be at[Read More…]
Compassionate trainer transforms dogs and cats one tail at a time
Sonia Fetherling has always loved dogs. When she was a child, she wasn’t allowed to have a dog of her own, so she improvised: She said she would go door to door in her Chichester, West Suffolk, England, neighborhood asking people if she could just walk their dogs — for[Read More…]
Local MABAS divisions send personnel, equipment to help with hurricane recovery
Crews and equipment from two local Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS) divisions are in Florida helping with hurricane recovery, according to MABAS 24 Director Kevin Welsh. Florida recently was hit by two major hurricanes in succession. Hurricane Helene made landfall on Sept. 24, and Hurricane Milton arrived on Oct.[Read More…]
10.15.2024 | What You Need To Know Today
Flossmoor School District 161 Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in Normandy Villa, 41 E. Elmwood Drive, Chicago Heights. The agenda is available here. The livestream of the meeting can be viewed here. The board’s Learning and Instruction Committee will meet at 5 p.m., also at Normandy Villa. [Read More…]
Collection drive for veterans is Saturday, Nov. 2
Volunteers are gearing up for a collection drive on Saturday, Nov. 2, to benefit the veterans at the Veterans Home in Manteno. Volunteers will be stationed from 9 a.m. to noon at the parking lot at St. John Neumann Parish, 17951 Dixie Highway in Homewood. See below for a list[Read More…]
League of Women Voters to host presentation on Electoral College
The League of Women Voters of the Homewood-Flossmoor Area will host a meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, to provide information on the history of the Electoral College. The meeting will take place in the Flossmoor village hall board room, 2800 Flossmoor Road. The speaker will be David Brodnax[Read More…]
Live Free 999 donates $100,000 in recognition of World Mental Health Day and to honor Juice WRLD
Live Free 999, the nonprofit founded by Carmela Wallace to honor her son Jarad “Juice WRLD” Higgins, announced today that it has donated $100,000 to local and national organizations addressing mental health and substance dependency challenges. The donations to A Place Called Home, The AAKOMA Project, Bring Change to Mind,[Read More…]
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