It’s budget season in the Village of Flossmoor. Elected officials and administrators on Monday, March 7, held the first in a planned series of discussions about the preliminary fiscal year 2023 budget. Talks opened with Village Manager Bridget Wachtel comparing the general fund of FY22 and FY23, and the same[Read More…]
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3/15/2022 | What You Need to Know Today
HOMEWOOD IS HIRING – The Village of Homewood is hiring for several job positions, including village planner, information technology manager, records clerk, part-time crossing guard, and seven part time summer landscape maintenance workers. Apply online. FLOSSMOOR GREEN COMMISSION – Listen to plans for community clean-up, Recyclepalooza, ride-your-bike to school and[Read More…]
3/14/2022 | What You Need to Know Today
FEELING CRAFTY? – Kids can get their craft on, with two Grab & Go options from Homewood Library today. Children in kindergarten to second grade can get a Flower Science craft from the Youth Services Area at any time. Young people in seventh through 12th grades can register for Make[Read More…]
Homewood public art project to promote shopping by bike
Joyce supports measure to raise wages for direct support personnel
Illinois Sen. Patrick Joyce (D-Essex) is supporting a measure to ensure that direct support personnel (DSP) are fairly compensated for the assistance they provide to individuals with developmental disabilities. “Support workers care for residents who rely on them to do basic day-to-day tasks that many of us do without thinking.[Read More…]
History-making senator addresses Women’s League of Voters
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) helped the Homewood-Flossmoor chapter of the League of Women Voters mark March as Women’s History Month by pointing to her history-making moment of bringing her newborn onto the floor of the U.S. Senate, becoming the first U.S. senator to do so. Duckworth addressed the audience[Read More…]
Chicago’s Federal Reserve Bank president is speaker for Economic Forecast Breakfast
Charles L. Evans, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago will be the guest speaker for the 2022 Economic Forecast Breakfast on Friday, April 1. Evans will discuss the economy in the South Suburbs as well as what is currently happening in the country and[Read More…]
Mansfield named Superintendent of Distinction by IASA
District 233 Superintendent Von Mansfield was recently named a Superintendent of Distinction by the Illinois Association of School Administrators (IASA). Mansfield was among 21 honorees selected by his peers based on his leadership, communication, professionalism and community involvement. Von Mansfield He will be honored by IASA at a celebratory luncheon[Read More…]
Drama Group presents comedy reading Saturday
“Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead,” a comedy about a teenager who questions the afterlife and comes to the very limits of teen angst, will be a staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Drama Group studio, 330 W. 202nd Street in Chicago Heights. The story focuses[Read More…]
Hospice care owners ask Flossmoor to annex Governors Highway parcels for new facility
The owners of a prospective hospice care facility are asking the Village of Flossmoor for a voluntary annex of two pieces of property along Governors Highway. Former Flossmoor Mayor Paul Braun, serving as an attorney representing Oasis House of Refuge LLC, on Monday, March, 7, presented preliminary plans for the[Read More…]
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