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The Homewood-Flossmoor girls track team was runner up at the Class 3A state meet last week at Eastern Illinois University. It’s the second time in as many seasons that the Vikings were one spot short of a championship. “As a program and as a staff, we know how difficult it[Read More…]
For 18 years, Dawn Spisak has shared another world with James Hart School students through her Spanish language classes. She is saying “adios” to her students and the teaching profession. In all, she’s been in front of a classroom for 35 years. At James Hart, Spisak used games, songs and[Read More…]
Franciscan Health Olympia Fields will hold a Little Angels Memorial Service for the young lives lost to miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy or newborn death on Wednesday, June 8, at 2 p.m., at Assumption Catholic Cemetery in Glenwood. When a family experiences a miscarriage or infant death, Franciscan Health buries those[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This story is the second in a series featuring candidates for Cook County’s 5th District, which includes Flossmoor. When Cook County District 5 Commissioner Deborah Sims decided she would retire after 28 years in that seat at the end of her term this year, she called Monica M.[Read More…]
Homewood trustees will have an opportunity on Tuesday to take a preliminary step toward redeveloping the village hall parking lot. The move comes two weeks after trustees approved the purchase of another downtown site at 2066 Ridge Road to make it available for redevelopment. At the regular meeting Tuesday, May[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series featuring candidates for Cook County’s 5th District, which includes Flossmoor. Vernard L. Alsberry Jr. may be best known nowadays as the mayor of Hazel Crest, serving his ninth year in that position. But he grew up in the Altgeld Gardens[Read More…]
The clouds hung low but they didn’t hamper the Flossmoor Police Department’s Coffee with a Cop event from 10 a.m. to noon on Friday, May 20. Standing outside Dunning’s Market on Sterling Avenue in downtown Flossmoor, a small crowd of police officers and residents gathered at the meet-up. Police Chief[Read More…]
The Juneteenth Festival is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Homewood-Flossmoor High School’s South Building parking lot. The festival will be preceded with a parade at 10 a.m. at Parker Junior High School. You Matter 2 is gearing up for their 2022 Juneteenth festival on June 19 at[Read More…]
Governors State University and South Suburban College are among organizations receiving state workforce development funding. Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced this week that $20 million would be distributed among 44 community-based organizations to provided training and wrap-around services that will bolster equitable workforce recovery for those struggling to gain meaningful employment. [Read More…]
The District 233 school board agreed to try a different approach on its $20 million borrowing plan that could save the district more than $2 million in costs. The board is planning to borrow the funds to cover the costs for constructing a new science wing onto the South Building[Read More…]
