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Three Homewood-Flossmoor High School seniors are receiving scholarships through the Posse Foundation. Rickie Lockett Jr. and Pedro Lugo will be attending Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Vianney Martinez will attend Panoma College in Claremont, California. They were selected for the merit-based scholarship based on their academic records and leadership abilities. The[Read More…]
Do you have extra pencils and pens? Maybe gift wrap and bows you’re not going to use? All done with alkaline batteries? These and other items are being collected during April, designated as Earth Month, by Homewood businesses. Everything will be properly recycled. Here’s a list: Recycle Homewood is sponsored[Read More…]
Friday, April 4 Aspire at Calvary Assembly of God. Aspire is a one-night women’s event full of laughter, learning, stories and music with one Bible teacher, one comedian and one musician that will be hosted by Calvary Assembly of God at 18620 Governors Highway in Flossmoor. Doors open at 6 p.m.[Read More…]
At the March 24 board of education meeting, Flossmoor School District 161 recognized Lindsay Epley, a second grader at Western Avenue School, for receiving the 2025 Infinitec Outstanding Student Technology Award. United Cerebral Palsy Seguin of Greater Chicago, a charitable non-profit organization, serves individuals with disabilities in the Chicago metropolitan[Read More…]
Major curriculum changes in the English Department at Homewood-Flossmoor High School will have students reading current novels — and some old favorites. The District 233 school board is expected to approve $193,000 for next books at the April 18 board meeting. The proposal was reviewed by the board’s Planning Committee[Read More…]
Students are invited to put their creativity to work for rail safety messages that can be entered into the 18th annual Metra Safety Competition. This year’s contest theme is “See Tracks? Think Train.” Students can win up to $500 in prizes for their original artwork, which will be featured in[Read More…]
The cast has been announced for the musical “Between the Lines” to be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 10, 11 and 12, by the Theatre Department at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. The “Between the Lines” story is based on the novel by the same name. It follows[Read More…]
Meet the Elected Officials. The election of 2025 is over with the exception of final tallies and vote certification. It’s still possible to learn about the candidates who were elected and will be sworn in soon on local government boards at the Chronicle’s Meet the Candidates page. Election 2025 content remains outside our[Read More…]
Gary Daggett, who is completing his first term, was reelected to the Flossmoor Board of Trustees with 1,520 votes and will be serving with newly elected trustees Carolyn Rodgers who garnered 1,339 votes and Kevin Dorsey with 1,294 votes. One seat was open on the board when Trustee Joni Bradley-Scott[Read More…]
Rich Hofeld was reelected to his eighth consecutive term as village president, according to unofficial results from the April 1 election, and the trustee candidates running with him on the Greater Homewood Party prevailed over challenges by the new Greener Homewood Party. Greater Homewood Party village clerk candidate Nakina Flores[Read More…]
