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The Homewood Village Board agreed to a $1.3 million purchase of a new fire truck at the Jan. 14 board meeting. Fire Chief Bob Grabowski said the cost is double what the last fire engine cost in 2019. The new fire truck will be a Pierce Enforcer model, and will[Read More…]
Back in class. District 153 schools will return to in-person classes today after an e-learning day Tuesday because of extreme cold weather. Flossmoor Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, in village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road. The date was changed to account for the MLK holiday. The agenda is available here.[Read More…]
Joyce Grant (Robinson) was born on Aug. 5, 1940, at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, the only child to Naomi (Virgil) and John Henry Robinson. She died on Saturday, Jan 18, 2025. She was raised on the South Side of Chicago in a neighborhood filled with thriving African American[Read More…]
Nathaniel B. Grant Jr., a pioneering icon in the Chicago film and television industry, died on Jan. 6, 2025. In an era where access to directing opportunities in commercials and feature films were scarce for African Americans, Grant, who was known as Nate, formed Lake Shore Film and Television Productions[Read More…]
It’s somebody different almost every night for Homewood-Flossmoor High School boys basketball. For the final game of the Vikings’ home MLK “The Dream Continues” invitational against Joliet West, it was Brent Taylor. With H-F down by two points and less than 10 seconds remaining, he didn’t give up on a[Read More…]
Troy McAllister is the new head football coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School after the District 233 school board approved the hire Tuesday. McAllister comes to the Vikings from SouthWest Suburban Conference rival Sandburg, where he was 19-20 over the last four seasons and qualified for the postseason three times. The[Read More…]
Moms and their children greeted donors at Western Avenue School in Flossmoor on Monday as they collected food stuffs and toiletries for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service project, one of more than a dozen projects that were part of the Village of Flossmoor’s 10th annual King Day[Read More…]
At a special meeting Tuesday, Jan. 21, Thornton Township voters packed the field house at South Suburban College to select Stephanie Wiedeman as trustee. She will serve the last four months of Jerry Jones’ term. He resigned in October. More information to come.
Schools Declare eLearning Day. Because of the cold temperatures today, Homewood District 153, Flossmoor District 161 and Homewood-Flossmoor District 233 schools will hold classes online rather than in person today. After school activities at Homewood-Flossmoor High School may be held after 3 p.m. at the discretion of the coaches and sponsors.[Read More…]
The Homewood-Flossmoor High School boys wrestling team isn’t interested in easy. The Vikings put together a schedule as difficult as almost any high school in the country. The downhill portion of that included the home Mega Duals Jan. 18, in which H-F won all three of its team events. It[Read More…]
