Park Forest Recreation Director Kevin Adams recommends repairing significant leaks and turning the West Pool into a splash pad.
Column: Water leaks and costly repairs may doom Park Forest Aqua Center
Category: Daily Southtown Opinion
Donna Vickroy: As we deal with new chaos, take a page from COVID and practice the four Cs
These are tough times for empaths. As we watch government service agencies get gutted, as we watch people lose their jobs, as we watch our beautiful national parks struggle to stay open, as we watch our once thriving country descend into economic despair, it is a challenge to keep panic at bay. Knowing our government […]
Column: Is Park Forest’s history of nonpartisan elections fading?
In Park Forest’s first decade, a Non-Partisan Committee was created so elections with candidates as a team were not tolerated.
Column: South suburban foodie attracts 400,000 plus followers by spotlighting Black-owned restaurants
Matteson resident and foodie Jeremy Joyce launched Black People Eats in 2017, and grew it to more than 400,000 followers.
Donna Vickroy: Plan now for your bountiful garden later
Yes, there’s light at the end of this winter. But before you reach for the gardening gloves, or take a hoe out of the shed, or start filling your cart with petunias, remember, March does not mean jump.
Now is the time to make a plan, research options, stock up on supplies and sketch out your future work of art.
Column: ‘I was devastated’: Park Forest residents react to news St. Mary Catholic Church will close
Bishop Ronald Hicks wrote St. Mary in Park Forest and St. Boniface in Monee will merge into St. Liborius Catholic Church in Steger.
Column: Governors State to hold inaugural Black History Education Symposium
Governors State Chief Diversity Officer Joi Patterson says the university will not shy away from celebrating different cultures.
Donna Vickroy: Old age can be hell when all you want is calm, order, health and friends
This is how I expected retirement to be: A nice stroll into a calm, slow, nonthreatening way of life as we put aside the chaos of the working world. Au contraire!
Column: Erin Mathias, who revivied Park Forest PTO, appointed to District 163 Board
Angela Watts and Erin Mathias created a fully functioning Parent-Teacher Organization at Mohawk Primary Center in Park Forest.
Donna Vickroy: Looking for moments of zen amid the national chaos the only way to stay sane
It didn’t take long to realize the new leadership’s manic attack on the status quo was by design. It also didn’t take long to realize the “shock and awe” was meant to both terrorize and exhaust us.