All hail the Homewood Banana! I am happy to report that pawpaws – an elusive, largely unknown native American fruit – are real. Also, that they are unlike any other fruit you’ve ever had, including bananas, and taste very good. On Sept. 1, a day I will long remember, Rachael[Read More…]
Opinion
Seeking the same level as a popular principal departs
Editor’s note: This column first appeared in the July 21, 2016, print edition of the Chronicle. I have one bit of advice for the Homewood-Flossmoor High School Board of Education. Next time you call a big town hall meeting on a controversial issue, don’t conduct it from the stage of[Read More…]
Getting mad in Munchkin Land – don’t mess with the schools
Down here in Munchkin Land we mostly mind our own business. Sure, we know the world around us is big and exciting, and the Yellow Brick Road can take us to innumerable adventures. Some of us have even been to the Emerald City. We have all heard the stories. One[Read More…]
It’s pawpaw pollination time, with dreams of homegrown ‘bananas’
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Spellbinding storyteller Beth Horner returns to Homewood Stories Sept. 15
[Editor’s Note: Host Karen O’Donnell announced Tuesday, Sept. 8, that the room is full and no additional reservations can be accepted for the Sept. 15 show.] Master storytellers are spellbinding. There. I’ve stated the obvious. Even though that’s common knowledge, it is still sometimes surprising to be caught in the[Read More…]
The Chronicle turns 1
Editor’s note: This is the first in a week-long series of stories focusing on who and what the HF Chronicle is. After publishing for a year, we thought it was about time we introduced ourselves. On Tuesday the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle will celebrate its first birthday. She loved that tree, she[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…]
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