Pat Harper

A park site at the northern end of Mokena could be ready this summer, a village official said last week. If the Village Board approves the Park District's request to...

With numbers growing at Mokena Elementary School, the District 159 School Board voted this week to add an assistant principal and a second school nurse to the staff. Cecelia Coffey...

Two proposed ordinances that would set licensing and zoning requirements for tattoo and body piercing businesses in New Lenox were presented to the Village Board this week. There are no...

Mokena trustees recently took steps to foster economic development at two LaPorte Road intersections. An engineering services contract for water main and sanitary sewer extensions at the southwest corner of...

The 1999-2000 budget approved Monday by the New Lenox Village Board starts out the fiscal year with a healthy surplus and is expected to end the year in the same...

Staff additions to serve a growing population may take the biggest bite out of next year's budget, Mokena officials said this week. At a work session called to discuss staff...

Golf course operations and the location of the proposed recreation center are issues facing six candidates fighting for two seats on the New Lenox Park Board. Incumbent park Commissioners Walter...

Literature's most famous know-it-all, Sherlock Holmes, learned a thing or two this week at Chelsea School. In "Cover to Cover," an original musical play presented by Face to Face Productions,...

While classes continue as usual, the Lincoln-Way High School Central Campus is doing double duty as a construction site, according to a construction update presented recently to the school board....

A monument marking the site of the Old Brick Tavern, once a stagecoach stop along the Sauk Trail, was dedicated last week. The monument at the entrance to the Bluestone...