Shnay: Park Forest celebrates 70th birthday
It was only proper that for two hours Saturday afternoon about 70 people celebrated Park Forest’s 70th birthday. For the most part, the group consisted of longtime residents; those who...
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Shnay: Park Forest candidates keep disappearing. Welcome to election season.
Details, specifics, and essentials. They can harm you. All Park Forest resident Renee Hawthorne needed to do was to list the office she was running for in April’s local election....
Shnay: Park Forest candidates fight to stay on the ballot
Details, details, details. Paperwork for Park Forest mayoral candidates is being scrutinized. Two weeks ago, six people had filed papers to run to replace retiring village Mayor John A. Ostenburg....
Shnay: It’s campaign season and the fun has just begun
It is campaign season in Park Forest and with apologies to Joe Woods, village poet-laureate and trustee candidate, the fun has just begun. Earlier this year, when John Ostenburg decided...
Shnay: Toxic is the word of the year
Oxford Dictionaries recently announced that the word of the year for 2018 is “toxic,” the definition of which is something poisonous. More than ever, says the dictionary, people have been...
Shnay: Park Forest school official pay draws questions
In 1930, the first full year of the Great Depression, baseball great Babe Ruth wanted $80,000 to play for the New York Yankees. That’s equal to slightly more than $1.46...
Shnay: Veterans Day honors those who fought for our country, including my friend Carl
I am writing this column Sunday, 100 years to the day World War I ended. The armistice was supposed to usher in an era of universal peace. We botched that...
Shnay: Park Forest haunted house raises money for food pantries
It was five years ago when I first told you about the Schaefer family, Chuck and Kim and their three children and of how they gave me a new reason...
Shnay: Park Forest mayor plans to retire
This is the time of year when those who can, gather apples by shaking the limbs of trees that bear fruit. A little shake here, a small shake there, and...
Shnay: Crete-Monee Dist. 201-U parents voice doubts about school closures
Autumn is upon us. Daylight is shorter. The mower does not need as much attention as does the leaf rake. Summer clothing is to be replaced by the warmer fashions...