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THE WEEK > Your government Flossmoor Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, July 21, in village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road. The agenda is available here. The livestream of the meeting will be available here. Meeting ID 852 1089 4513, passcode 60422. Highlights: Flossmoor Zoning Board of Appeals will meet at 6:30[Read More…]
Metra Platforms. The planned work schedule for today has been completed. All trains will board from their normal tracks at Millennium Station.
Metra Delays, Millennium Station Platforms. Due to planned work today and Sunday trains at Millennium Station will not have access to their normal platforms on the lower level and will be required to use South Shore (NICTD) station and platforms 11, 12 and 13 on the upper level from 6 a.m.[Read More…]
Things are a little bit different around the Homewood-Flossmoor football program. Troy McAllister is in his first season at the helm of the Vikings’ longship so the aim this summer was to lay the foundation for a program that wasn’t in a bad place, he said, but needs to be[Read More…]
Meeting the needs of Homewood-Flossmoor High School’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program will now be the responsibility of two people. The District 233 school board agreed to share responsibilities by creating a department lead position. At a special meeting of the board on Friday, July 18, the board unanimously[Read More…]
The secrets of seven outstanding gardeners were shared with guests who wandered through their gardens on the 13th annual Southland Community Garden Walk on Sunday, July 13, hosted by the National Council of Jewish Women. Each, in its own way, was a perfect example of how variety, color and design[Read More…]
Latoya Newman, owner of Queen’s Lavish Scents, celebrated the grand opening of her business in Homewood with a ribbon cutting on July 11. Her shop is located at 18019 Dixie Highway, Suite 1A. Newman was surrounded by friends and family as she cut the ribbon alongside Mayor Rich Hofeld and[Read More…]
Irons Oaks Environmental Learning Center hosted a “Birds of Prey” event on July 16, featuring live raptors, including owls and hawks. Candy Ridlbauer from Northern Illinois Raptor Rehab and Education brought birds that the organization had rescued. The presentation provided an opportunity to learn about raptors, their habitats, and their[Read More…]
Friday, July 18 Homewood-Flossmoor School District 233 Board of Education will hold a board retreat from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Olympia Fields Country Club, 2800 Country Club Drive. Brew & View. The H-F Park District will host a showing of “Men in Black” from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in Irwin[Read More…]
The Franciscan Health Olympia Fields Graduate Medical Education (GME) program is now home to a three-year cardiovascular disease fellowship. Three fellows are members of the inaugural class, which began July 1. The first fellows are all graduates of Franciscan Health Olympia Fields’ internal medicine residency program. “We retained some of[Read More…]
