Homewood-Flossmoor High baseball standout Bryce Gray will be the guest speaker for the H-F Baseball Boosters Club Hot Stove fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 27. The event at Balagio Ristorante, 17501 Dixie Highway in Homewood, opens at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour and time to bid on various raffle prizes[Read More…]
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Park board begins planning process for updates to Irwin Park play area
Homewood-Flossmoor Park District commissioners have three plans to review as they begin the process of updating the play area at Irwin Park. The busiest park in the park district is just east of downtown Homewood along Ridge Road between Gottschalk and Highland Avenues in Homewood. What the board can accomplish[Read More…]
The Weeks | Jan. 21: Pursuing the Dream, ‘Caste’ becomes a movie, engineering with toothpicks, Flossmoor public works projects
THE WEEKS > Meetings Flossmoor School District 161 Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, in Normandy Villa, 41 E. Elmwood Drive, Chicago Heights. Flossmoor Community Relations Commission will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, in village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road. Homewood Board of Trustees will meet at[Read More…]
Soup-tasting event will raise money for the Center for Food Equity in Medicine
Soup for the Soul, a soup-tasting event featuring about 20 chefs for a fundraiser for the Center for Food Equity in Medicine (CFFEIM), will be held at the Flossmoor Community House in Flossmoor on Monday, Feb. 19, from 5 to 9 p.m. CFFEIM is a nonprofit organization that provides nutritional[Read More…]
Honors continue to pour in for H-F boys track coaches
The Homewood-Flossmoor boys track coaches were the most decorated staff at the 2024 Illinois Track and Cross Country Coaches Association clinic. Leader Nate Beebe was named coach of the year, as previously reported by The Chronicle, while sprints coach Chris Korfist entered the ITCCCA Hall of Fame and jumps coach[Read More…]
Trail Mix concert featuring the Tray Wellington Band moves to Thornton Distilling Co.
Trail Mix Acoustic Concert Series, a year-round music festival, will feature a performance from the Tray Wellington Band, a bluegrass group from Raleigh, North Carolina, and local one-man band M.G. Bailey, at Thornton Distilling Co. in Thornton on Saturday, Feb. 10. This will be the first Trail Mix that isn’t[Read More…]
MLK Day 2024: H-F female wrestlers show how it’s done
Young girls took to the wrestling mat at Homewood-Flossmoor High School as girls wrestling team members gently flipped them, trained with them and became their buddies. The demonstration was part of the Martin Luther King Day of Service events Jan. 15. The program opened with the visitors meeting up with[Read More…]
H-F Park District to host Youth Hockey Day at ice arena
Youth hockey fans have an opportunity for a “puck-tacular day of Youth Hockey fun,” according to an H-F Park District promo, starting at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, at the H-F Ice Arena, 777 Kedzie Ave. The event will include raffle baskets, a poster-making station, a food truck and shoot-the-puck[Read More…]
Art gallery Oxford Art Exchange opens in Shops on Sterling
Oxford Art Exchange, a shop that specializes in framed, original artwork at an affordable price, celebrated its grand opening in the Shops on Sterling building in downtown Flossmoor on Thursday, Jan. 11. The artwork at Oxford Art Exchange is less expensive than most artwork of its kind because the owner,[Read More…]
Hagemaster does the dirty work for H-F basketball
Glue guy. Gritty. Scrappy. Blue collar. Mac Hagemaster doesn’t mind being described with those sorts of basketball cliches. He owns the stereotype. “My role is to get the boards. Get the hustle points. Get everyone energized and hustle. Play defense. Get blocks. Sometimes score the ball,” the Homewood-Flossmoor senior said.[Read More…]
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