Rich East Stellar Student Ashley Peters. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)- eNews Park Forest continues with our series of stellar students from Rich East High School. Mr. Kevin Kredens, the school’s publicity liaison, provides each student a series of the same questions. All responses are in the students’ exact words,[Read More…]

MANTORVILLE, Minn. (KMSP) – A father in southern Minnesota says words — simple, hurtful words — killed his 13-year-old daughter, and now he’s speaking out against the bullying his child endured at school and through social media after she took her own life on Saturday. "These words killed my daughter,"[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- What is a “green lockdown” at Forest Trail Middle School? eNews Park Forest received an email from a parent concerned after hearing the school went into lockdown Wednesday. “My 8th grader came home from Forest Trail yesterday and said there had been a ‘green’ lockdown (all students[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2012.  A new report from the Center for American Progress released today outlines promising practices that all teachers can employ to meet the needs of English language learners. The recent increase in immigration accounts for rapid and substantial demographic changes in the United States’s school-aged population. An[Read More…]

Rich East Stellar Student Heather Adney. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)- eNews Park Forest continues with our series of stellar students from Rich East High School. Mr. Kevin Kredens, the school’s publicity liaison, provides each student a series of the same questions. All responses are in the students’ exact words,[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- On a snowy Friday morning in January, a group of Forest Trail School students and Cheryl Muench, Forest Trail co-principal, put on winter weather gear, grabbed snow shovels donated by the Park Forest Police Department and walked into the school’s surrounding neighborhood to shovel residents’ driveways and[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Forest Trail School students Oceana Mohead, Brett Hinson, D’Andre Allen, and Alexander Godley will be recognized by the Village of Park Forest during special ceremonies for the good citizenship they exhibited when they came to the aid of an elderly woman this winter. The four students comforted[Read More…]

Senator says President’s Executive Order sends clear message that federal taxpayer will no longer subsidize deceptive marketing and aggressive recruiting WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—April 27, 2012.  U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today commended President Obama’s decision to sign an Executive Order that will help ensure that our veterans and servicemembers have the[Read More…]

Generation Green students display the nearly 500 cell phones, lap tops and digital cameras collected during Earth Week. On the left front to back is Kyra Sykes ’15 of Hazel Crest; Marissa Abston ’12 of Harvey; Jocelyn Lloyd ’11 of Lynwood; Sophia Lam ’15 of Olympia Fields; Jonathan Brodeur ’12[Read More…]

The cast includes front row, Rebecca Hauser ’15 of Crete; Kendyl Todd ’14 of Crete; Aimee Tiberi ’14 of Chicago Heights; Anna Petrelli ’13 of Park Forest; Noah Uhlenbrauck of Crete; Hope Lang ’15, of Monee; Courtneigh Summerrise ’12 of South Holland; Shayna Vaughn ’14 of Lowell; and Emily Callahan[Read More…]