EAT HOMEWOOD – It’s Homewood Restaurant Week, when the Homewood Business Association encourages residents to dine at local eateries. Participating restaurants include Cilantro, Grady’s, La Voute Bistro, Maple Tree Inn, Redbird Café, Riviera Tacos, and Twisted Q. Get a punch card at a participating restaurant, fill four spaces by ordering[Read More…]
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Stroke victim happy to return to tennis at H-F racquet club
Gregory Moore has a 45-year attachment to the game of tennis. After he suffered a stroke, he was down but refused to be counted out. Moore, of Homewood, remembers being on the tennis courts at the Homewood-Flossmoor Racquet and Fitness Club in February. He stepped back to reach the ball[Read More…]
Local COVID-19 cases jump, state numbers decrease for the first time this summer
Statewide, there was some good news last week as the number of new COVID-19 cases was less than the previous week for the first time since mid-June. Locally, parents remain concerned about infections among school children. Most elementary school students do not qualify to receive vaccines. Local schools have different[Read More…]
H-F High’s DEI coordinator Catherine Ross Cook says all input is welcome
“The heart of equity work is that we’re all at the table together doing this work. That is the heart of it,” said Catherine Ross Cook, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) coordinator for District 233. After 12 years in the classroom at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Cook stepped into the[Read More…]
Food drive Sept. 18 at St. Joe’s
St. Joseph Church is hosting a food donation drive on Saturday, Sept. 18, for the “Neighbors in Need” program sponsored by Catholic Charities. Donations of food will be accepted from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the church’s north parking lot at 17951 Dixie Highway in Homewood. This will be a[Read More…]
Flossmoor wine bar proposal gets another round of discussion after petitioner adjusts plan
A Homewood liquor store owner’s proposal to open a wine bar in Flossmoor got more discussion Tuesday, Sept. 7, and petitioner Ronakkumar Patel left with a few more notes. Patel, owner of Family Wines & Liquors in Homewood, first appeared before the Flossmoor Village Board in July to request a[Read More…]
South Suburbs for Greenspace to host community meeting on Calumet Country Club
South Suburbs for Greenspace (SSG) will hold a community meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 13, to inform area residents about developments at the Calumet Country Club and the movement to stop the development of this property. The meeting is at Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve’s east pavilion at 1100[Read More…]
Park district considers a community center concept for H-F Racquet & Fitness Club
The H-F Racquet & Fitness Club needs some changes. But Homewood-Flossmoor Park District commissioners are in a quandary about what to do with the facility, on what timeline and at what expense. Commissioners have looked at the issue before, but at the Sept. 7 meeting they decided to start a[Read More…]
Flossmoor Fire Department promotes captain to assistant chief, hires new captain
The Flossmoor Fire Department promoted Matthew Berk from captain to assistant fire chief, effective Aug. 23, and hired Dan Bracken to the vacant captain’s role effective Aug. 24. The Village Board made things official on Tuesday, Sept. 7, with Village Clerk Gina LoGalbo administering the oath of office to both[Read More…]
9/10/2021 | What You Need to Know This Weekend
HIDDEN GEM – Some 800 runners will flood Flossmoor’s streets on Saturday morning for the Hidden Gem Half Marathon. The 13.1-mile race starts outside Infant Jesus of Prague School and loops through Flossmoor. Watch out for road closures; go online to preview the course. FLOSSMOOR FEST – Returning this year,[Read More…]
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