The Homewood Board of Trustees did not formally endorse the Homewood School District 153 bond referendum at its meeting Tuesday, but board members each expressed support for the ballot measure. “I’ll take a yard sign,” Trustee Barbara Dawkins said after a presentation by Terry Keigher, chairman of Citizens for Homewood[Read More…]

  Margaret Walsh Dull As part of its celebration of Catholic Schools Week, Flossmoor’s Infant Jesus of Prague School selected Margaret Walsh Dull its 2016 outstanding alumna. She was chosen for her “living a genuinely Catholic life” through faith, knowledge and service. She serves as the school’s registrar and office[Read More…]

Athletes and volunteers are serving Friday dinner at the St. Joseph Athletic Association annual Fish Fry from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Fridays through March 18. Dinners are served at the school, 17951 Dixie Highway in Homewood. The Alaskan pollock dinner is served with curly fries, coleslaw, dinner roll and dessert.[Read More…]

The Parker Junior High School seventh-grade basketball team will be competing in the state tournament Thursday. (Provided photo) Flossmoor School District 161, facing a statewide teacher shortage, is traveling to two job fairs this month in search of new faculty members. At Monday’s school board meeting, Superintendent Craig Doster said district personnel will[Read More…]

Every vote counts! That is the message District 153 supporters are stressing as they share information about the March 15 referendum. The Homewood schools district got more than 80 percent approval for the 2011 referendum, but supporters say they aren’t taking anything for granted this year. “We don’t want people[Read More…]

The award-winning documentary, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” produced by Homewood native Laurens Grant, will be airing this month on WTTW – Channel 11. The Chicago Public Television network will air the film at 3 p.m. on Feb. 17, 10 p.m. on Feb. 18 and 1 a.m. on[Read More…]

Parker Junior High’s Tech Ninjas robotics team.(Provided photo) Parker Junior High Tech Ninjas won the Judges Control Award recently at the Chicago Math and Science Academy FIRST Tech Challenge qualifier. It was the team’s second time competing in FTC, an international program that brings science, problem solving and programming to[Read More…]

The District 153 PTA will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, to take a position on the upcoming March 15 referendum question. The meeting is at James Hart School, 183rd and Morgan in Homewood. The school board approved a referendum asking voters to extend the current tax levy another[Read More…]

 “Memory: An exhibition of portraiture evoking memory,” is the newest show in the Christopher Art Gallery at Prairie State College (PSC), 202 S. Halsted St. in Chicago Heights.          Artists Ellen Holtzblatt, Judith Roth, John P. Smolko, Joseph Taylor and Julian Williams will be welcomed at a[Read More…]