PREPARE FOR JUNETEENTH – The nonprofit organization You Matter 2 is planning an HF Juneteenth Festival, and the group’s leaders are encouraging local residents to get ready by signing up to volunteer and stocking up on gear. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. JUNETEENTH GEAR –[Read More…]
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Davis makes history as first Black president of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police
Pritzker announces further reopening will occur May 14 as state moves into bridge phase
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on Wednesday that the entire state will move into the Bridge Phase of the Restore Illinois reopening plan beginning Friday, May 14. The Bridge Phase will allow for expanded capacity limits for businesses and gatherings before the state moves to a full reopening in Phase 5.[Read More…]
COVID-19 numbers: May 6
Flossmoor Homewood South District State 37.4% 37.5% 25.4% 33.61%
COVID-19 numbers: May 5
Flossmoor Homewood South District State 37.4% 32.1% 21.7% 33.07%
H-F awards tenure to five faculty members
The District 233 school board approved tenure for five teachers this year. Tenure was awarded in April to Carla Boyd, Monte Holt, Gregory Jones, Nicholas Jones and Tiffany Madison. They have been on staff for four years and received excellent reviews each year. In his letter to the five faculty[Read More…]
Happy retirement: Lisa Morrow & DeLores Mannes, District 161 teachers’ careers, retirements are intertwined
H-F board inducts new members, selects new officers
The Homewood-Flossmoor District 233 school board welcomed newly elected board members Michelle Hoereth and Cynthia Turnquest to the board. Gerald Pauling was elected board president, and Debbie Berman was elected vice president/secretary. During the virtual special meeting on Friday, April 30, Hoereth, Turnquest and re-elected board member Steve Anderson were[Read More…]
5/6/2021 | What You Need to Know Today
SCHOOL NURSE NEEDED – Homewood School District 153 is hiring a school nurse for students in grades three to five at Churchill School. Qualified candidates will be CPR certified and licensed as a registered professional nurse in the state of Illinois. Apply here. ADOPT A PET EVENT – South Suburban[Read More…]
Temporary driver services facility to open this week at Prairie State College
The Chicago Heights drivers service facility is still being renovated after being damaged in a fire last year, but two local state legislators report that a temporary facility will open this week at Prairie State College, 202 S. Halsted St. Fire damaged the south side of the Illinois Secretary of State Office[Read More…]
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