Mayor Ostenburg and owner Cathy Shears cut the ribbon, celebrating the opening of Design’d to Go Florist at their new location. (Photo: ENEWSPF) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Design’d to Go Florist celebrated its grand opening at 323 Main Street last week. Village officials and staff were on hand for the ribbon[Read More…]

Linzey Jones (l to r), Rick Reinbold, Lauren Alspaugh, David Sevier, Deb Sedberry, John Ostenburg and Mark Stricker. (Photo: ENEWSPF) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Matteson Area Chamber of Commerce held its 19th Annual State of the Villages Luncheon last Wednesday at Dining on the Green in Park Forest. Village officials[Read More…]

The Microsoft Vista Ultimate Desktop. (Graphic: Microsoft.com) P.C. Smith: One Byte at a Time Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— With all the hoopla over Bill Gates’ retirement from Microsoft, talk of Windows XP retiring has somehow slipped under most people’s radar. On June 30, 2008, Microsoft will officially stop producing Windows XP.[Read More…]

Police found this 40-foot light pole still tied to a Jeep, shown here, ready to be towed. (Photo: PFPD) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Two men allegedly stole a 40-foot light pole from a construction zone in the area of Western Ave. and Steger Rd. They apparently didn’t hide it well. When[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A verbal exchange between two 15-year-old girls that went sour was the alleged catalyst of a 75-person brawl in Central Park two Saturdays ago. According to police, the entire incident allegedly started when one 15-year-old girl looked at another 15-year-old girl and said, "What are you looking[Read More…]

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]