Pat Harper

Four years of legal wrangling ended this week when the New Lenox Village Board voted to settle lawsuits with developers of a local subdivision. Mayor Mike Smith called Tuesday's settlement...

Some road improvements and a new park would accompany the development of a residential subdivision recently recommended for approval by the Mokena Planning Commission. The first phase of developer Patrick...

A "stagnant market" has delayed the sale of the bond issue that will finance a new junior high school in New Lenox, but bond buyers' interest is expected to pick...

Martino Junior High School has been named a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. District 122 Supt. Tom Mullins said he got the word in a phone...

Chipping away at an expected budget deficit, the New Lenox Elementary District 122 School Board Wednesday raised book fees by $80 and planned to once again ask voters for a...

Mayor Mike Smith wants to know if New Lenox could develop a centralized storm water detention site. Smith said this week that he wants the Village Board, Streets and Drainage...

Lincoln-Way High School's 248 teachers have a new three-year contract with an average salary increase of 3.5 percent. The contract approved last week by the school board and ratified by...

Alicia O'Brien of New Lenox is only 13, but she already has touched more lives than people many years her senior. Alicia, who was stricken with a brain tumor at...

Tight money might force a downsizing of the road improvement included in a plan for a 66-home subdivision on the west side of the Mokena, officials said last week. Plans...

Orland Park trustees have approved a plan for a six-home subdivision despite the objection of a neighboring property owner. The proposal for the Ashburn Point subdivision on 153rd Street between...