Pat Harper

The Park District has joined the list of agencies seeking financial support from volunteer fundraisers. Park commissioners said they will form a foundation to help raise money for park development....

The defeat last week of a referendum proposal to make New Lenox a home-rule community puts the question on hold for almost two years. By law, voters can't be asked...

A new surgical center planned for the east side of Silver Cross Hospital is an example of the hospital's need to respond to changes in the health care industry, Paul...

Water system renovations remain on the agenda, even though Mokena voters last week turned down a proposal to pipe in a Lake Michigan water supply, village trustees said. The proposal...

Mokena's trash-collection costs through 2001 are set under a contract approved Monday night by the Village Board. The contract with Nu-Way Disposal sets monthly household costs at $10.98 in 1997...

Donations from Mayor Ronald Grotovsky's sixth annual golf outing will benefit five local groups, the mayor has announced. "This is our best year," Grotovsky said, noting that the outing brought...

The Old Brick Tavern, bulldozed to make way for a subdivision almost two years ago, will be commemorated with a monument on the northwest corner of U.S. Highway 30 and...

When Lois Ebert was president of the village's PTA in 1950s, the group raised money to buy radios for their children's classrooms. In the 1990s the technological ante has been...

Police escort: New Lenox Police Chief Ken Oldendorf wasn't carting Mayor John Nowakowksi off to jail when he pulled him out of a recent pre-election question-and-answer session. The six-member village...

Fifteen people came out for a second public forum Wednesday on the pros and cons of switching local wells to a Lake Michigan pipeline. The village received a Lake Michigan...