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11.1.22 | What You Need to Know Today

SMASHING YOUR PUMPKINS – Now that Halloween is behind us, bring your jack-o’-lanterns and other pumpkins to the Pumpkin Smash event, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 5 at Coyote Run Golf Course. At this family-friendly event, your pumpkins can be diverted from the landfill and turned into compost.[Read More…]

Flossmoor Police Chief Tod Kamleiter, right, is interviewed by Chicago TV station reporters during the community forum on Saturday, Oct. 29. (Eric Crump/H-F Chronicle)

Flossmoor forum filled with passion, ideas, questions as community wrestles with police shooting trauma (free content)

Flossmoor and area residents said they want more transparency from police and village officials, and a commitment from the village to pursue policies that can help prevent police shootings, like the one that led to the death of Madeline Miller in July. Those were among the prominent messages that emerged[Read More…]

Scenes from Halloween 2022

The weather was creepy for Halloween 2022 in Homewood, foggy in the morning, misty and damp during trick or treating in the afternoon. Chronicle editor Marilyn Thomas captured the Halloween parade at Willow School. Eric Crump visited famed Page Avenue in the afternoon to capture the scene.

Trick or Treat Trail basks in sunshine

The Grim Reaper (aka Jackson Symowicz), left, acquires a piece of candy from Devin Frendreis, standing, director of the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District’s Discovery Preschool, and Oralethea Davenport, seated, manager of Irwin Center, while his not-so-grim mom, Missy Symowicz looks on. Crowds of kids in costume accompanied by parents followed the[Read More…]

Demi Chaney, 14, stands on second base during the MLB Trailblazers Series in the spring. Chaney won MVP of the event and will attend the World Series. (Provided photo)

Homewood teen to be honored at World Series

It couldn’t have worked out better for 14-year-old Demi Chaney, but she earned it. The Homewood resident will leave for Houston Friday at the invitation of Major League Baseball. Chaney was chosen as the MVP of MLB’s Girls Baseball Trailblazers series in April in Vero Beach, Fla., so the league[Read More…]

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