News you can't get anywhere else
Homewood-Flossmoor High School students and staff got to interact with representatives of the University of Illinois system during a visit Sept. 3. U of I has three campuses – Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield. H-F’s 2023 statistics show 139 seniors applied at Urbana-Champaign, 90 at Chicago and 14 at Springfield. From[Read More…]
THE WEEK > Your government (Meetings are open to the public.) Flossmoor School District 161 Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, in Normandy Villa, 41 E. Elmwood Drive, Chicago Heights. The agenda is available here. To watch the livestream of the meeting, click here. Highlights: The board will consider[Read More…]
Storyteller extraordinaire and local dentist Karen O’Donnell died Monday, Sept. 2, after a battle with cancer. A memorial mass will be said at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30, at St. John Neumann Church, 17951 Dixie Highway in Homewood. Dr. O’Donnell recently marked 10 years of Homewood Stories, an open mic[Read More…]
Colin Mickow of Oswego broke his own Hidden Gem Half Marathon record in the men’s division Saturday, Sept. 7, running at a 4:52 minute-per-mile pace to clock a time of 1:03:44. That broke the previous record he set in 2021 by 4 seconds, according to online race results. Mickow also[Read More…]
The Gem route wraps around Heather Hill, where every year, residents take the opportunity to cheer the runners on through their seventh mile of the half-marathon. This year, neighbors welcomed the athletes to Heather Hill with a cheer group inspired by Super Mario Bros. Princess Peach offered a mushroom power-up[Read More…]
“Woo! Great job!” “Keep going!” Brandy Vital and her niece, Avery Boykin-Harris, hollered out words of encouragement as Hidden Gem runners turned onto 188th Street from Hamlin Avenue shortly after 8 a.m. Volunteers from South Suburban Vineyard Church and Flossmoor Hills School were at the ready as the crowd of[Read More…]
To become a paramedic today requires being in a classroom two days a week to complete 450 didactic coursework hours and 500 hours of clinical training. The coursework and training can be done concurrently. To be eligible for the program, prospective candidates pass tests in math, reading and emergency medical[Read More…]
The main excavation work to create the storm water detention basin adjacent to Heather Hill School in Flossmoor is done, according to an update posted Friday, Sept. 6, by Public Works Director John Brunke. Grading and topsoil placement has been completed, he said, and heavy machinery has been removed with[Read More…]
Two members of the Homewood-Flossmoor High School District 233 school board are asking fellow board members to re-examine the issue of recording board meetings where decisions are made. At the Aug. 20 meeting, members Pam Jackson and Michelle Hoereth proposed the board take another look at the issue. The board[Read More…]
HIDDEN GEM HALF MARATHON — The fifth annual race will start at 7:30 a.m. Saturday on Flossmoor Road near the intersection with Douglas Avenue. About 1,200 runners are signed up to compete, and Flossmoor residents will be outside cheering them on. There will be road closures in neighborhoods throughout the village[Read More…]
