As Flossmoor District 161 prepares to approve its 2016-17 budget, significant financial boosts are likely from both state and local sources. With the retirement of Flossmoor’s tax increment financing (TIF) district last December, the Flossmoor school system is expecting a 2.8 percent increase in local tax revenues in the new[Read More…]
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Senators to be guest speakers Sept. 12
Illinois state senators will give updates on the legislative session at the Homewood-Flossmoor League of Women Voters potluck supper on Monday, Sept. 12. The program starts at 6 p.m. at the Irwin Center, 18120 Highland Ave. in Homewood. The public is welcome. Guests are asked to bring a dish to[Read More…]
Parker cross country team impressive at first invitational meet
Parker Junior High School’s cross country team is off to a strong start this season. Parker’s squad posted impressive team and individual performances at the first invitational of the season on Aug. 31 at Martino Junior High School in New Lenox. Parker competed against 12 other teams at the meet.[Read More…]
Foundation 153 ready for annual walk Sept. 18
Registration is open for the 2016 Foundation 153 Fund Run set for 9 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18. The walk, run and dash events involve community members of all ages. Proceeds will enable the foundation continue underwriting various programs at Willow, Churchill and James Hart schools that can not be funded[Read More…]
Trail Mix to showcase local musicians Saturday, rain or shine
Local musicians will make bathe the woods in sound on Saturday, rain or shine. The first of what organizers hope will become an annual concert event, Trail Mix, will begin at noon in the west pavilion at Izaak Walton Preserve, directly across the parking lot from Senior Hall, and will[Read More…]
Ford Interceptor vehicles purchased for Flossmoor’s police, public works
Flossmoor Village Board members Tuesday approved the purchase of three Ford Interceptor utility vehicles for two municipal departments. Two of the vehicles will be police cars and the third will be used by Flossmoor’s Public Works Department. All three vehicles will be purchased through the Suburban Purchasing Cooperative (SPC) and[Read More…]
Food and opera brought together at GSU’s ‘Opera Up Close’ program
Opera and food are like a fine duet. Members of the Chicago Lyric Opera Chorus will bring the delights to life through food and the operatic music it inspired in a special “Music and Food Around the World” program at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at The Center for Performing[Read More…]
Marian Catholic’s former football coach Dave Mattio dies
Dave Mattio, the longtime athletic director and football coach at Marian Catholic High School, died Wednesday, Sept. 7 after a battle with cancer. He was 68.
Flossmoor prohibits parking on street near Western Avenue School
Parking will be not be allowed on a street near Western Avenue School that has turned into a traffic bottleneck, especially during student drop-off and pick-up schedules. Flossmoor Village Board members Monday unanimously voted to completely remove on-street parking from Vardon Lane between Western Avenue and Gardner Road.
Golf and brews event canceled
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District has canceled its Fore & Pour event set for Saturday, Sept. 10. Although staff worked hard to put everything in place, the decision was made Tuesday to cancel. “We just didn’t get the response we needed,” Debbie Kopas, parks executive director, told commissioners at the Committee[Read More…]
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