Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Two men reported to police that they were robbed at gunpoint in the Metra parking lot located in Park Forest. On Friday, December 21, at around 11:20 p.m., a man, his girlfriend, and another man exited the Metra train and were walking to their cars. After the[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Police Report – December 31, 2007
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[Read More…]
“War is Hell” Doesn’t Begin To Describe How Horrible It Has Been
(PRWEB) December 28, 2007 — The United States Entertainment Force nonprofit corporation has launched a new interactive website that will help to not only generate donations for the support of our troops (www.theusef.org), but also has a section in the communities which will help ease troop communication to family and[Read More…]
Scarface AL Capone’s Grandson Releases Memoir
Son of Scarface: A Memoir by the Grandson of Al Capone, a Tell-All Memoir About how the author has Uncovered his Family’s Lost Legacy Santa Ana, CA (PRWEB) December 28, 2007 — A provocative story, Son of Scarface is a young man’s search for his father’s mysterious past. The simple,[Read More…]
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eNews Park Forest welcomes your letters. Please include your address and phone number for verification. Pseudonyms or anonymous letters are not published. All letters are subject to editing. We ask that letters be exclusive to eNews Park Forest. We regret that we can neither print nor acknowledge all the correspondence[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor – Dec. 28, 2007
Thanks eNewsPF My introduction to eNews Park Forest came from Officer LaTara Chaney of the Park Forest Police Department. I was added to her Police Department mailing list through my and a neighbor’s attempts at getting a Neighborhood Watch program established on my street. After reading the initial issue, I[Read More…]
In 1657, Small Group Stood Up For Religious Freedom — For Others
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar Three hundred and fifty years ago, on Dec. 27, 1657, 30 inhabitants of Flushing, New Netherland (now New York), defied Gov. Peter Stuyvesant’s order barring townspeople from harboring Quakers. “For our part,” they protested to Stuyvesant,[Read More…]
Police Report – December 24, 2007
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[Read More…]
Park Forest Students Go ‘Batty’
Learning to identify the various bat species in Illinois was made easier when the students played the "That’s My Bat" memory game. (Photo: ME4E) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– This winter, all 5th graders from Mohawk Intermediate Center, Blackhawk Intermediate Center and the special education students from Forest Trail Middle School are[Read More…]
Marian Catholic Contemplates Drug Testing
Chicago Heights , IL—(ENEWSPF)— Why would a school consider mandatory drug testing when its drugs use, according to the University of Michigan ‘s "Monitoring the Future" research, is far less than the national and local averages? Marian Catholic High School is giving strong consideration to drug testing for the entire[Read More…]
