Homewood-Flossmoor Park District board members Tuesday approved a $16 million budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year. The budget, which was unanimously approved, includes several changes in spending that will help renovate and make improvements to park district facilities. The new fiscal year started on May 1 and will end April[Read More…]

Homewood-Flossmoor High School teacher Tim Caldwell’s 38-year teaching career has included having students qualify for state competition 49 out of the 50 seasons he’s coached swimming and water polo.  Photos of teams and elite swimmers at H-F are plastered on walls and cabinets in the swim coaches’ office and he[Read More…]

Ann Floyd, District 153 special education teacher. She has been a teacher for 38 years. For the first 23 years I worked for District 194 in Steger. The first 17 years were as a K-6 art teacher. The last six were as a seventh and eighth grade special education teacher.[Read More…]

Nancy Wilson, District 161 director of special education. She has a 29-year career as teacher and administrator. I began my career as a special education teacher at a cooperative program, where I worked for four years. After the birth of my second child, I stayed home with my children. (There[Read More…]

Linda Cheney, District 161 paraprofessional. She has worked in the district since 1997. I started at Western Avenue as the third grade classroom paraprofessional. I learned what an excellent group of teachers they had in third grade. I was then put with Ms. White, a very caring special education teacher, to help[Read More…]

Jill Sehlke, District 153 lunchroom cashier. She started in the district in 2009. I make a point every year to learn the name of each child who comes through my line. You would be surprised what a reaction you get when you say, “Hello John, how are you today?” A simple question like[Read More…]

Patricia Fears, principal of Heather Hill School. She has been a teacher for 21 years and an administrator for 12 years. My first year of teaching was at Blakeney Elementary School in Waynesboro, Ga. My tenure in Illinois began at Bryant Elementary School in Harvey and continued at Sauk Elementary[Read More…]

Kathy Tisoncik, librarian at H-F High School. She started working there in 2002. I had always hoped to work at H-F one day, but never thought the opportunity would come along. I found myself sitting next to the assistant superintendent at a College to Careers Committee meeting one day and[Read More…]

Contributing writer and “deliverator” Ann Lawrence gets help delivering the March edition of the Chronicle from her son, Owen.(Photo by Ann Lawrence/H-F Chronicle) Community residents who distribute the H-F Chronicle are about to deliver their 25,000th paper with the May edition. With more than 5,000 copies printed monthly, a team of 15[Read More…]

  An artists’ rendering of the  proposed homes for people  with developmental  disabilities in Flossmoor.   (Provided image)  After a series of meetings over the last six months, Flossmoor village board members Monday gave final approval to a plan to develop apartments for developmentally disabled adults. When completed, the apartments will be[Read More…]