Barbara Moore addresses the gathering for the Park Forest 60th Anniversary Celebration. (Photo: Wendy Heise) Photo Gallery: Park Forest 60th Anniversary Celebration Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– More than 150 gathered at Freedom Hall to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Park Forest on Sunday, February 1, at 12 p.m.—sixty years to the[Read More…]
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New Rules for Candidates in Park Forest Non-Partisan Elections
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Committee for Non-Partisan Local Government in Park Forest met last week in Village Hall to finalize plans for the upcoming forums in advance of the April 7 election. There are three Village Trustee seats open and two six-year seats open on the Library Board, and one[Read More…]
FBI Wants You to Get Educated on the Gang Threat
(GRAPHIC SUPPLIED) Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Gangs are morphing, multiplying, and migrating—entrenching themselves not just in our inner cites but increasingly in our ever-sprawling suburbs and wide-open rural spaces. In some communities, they are responsible for as much as a staggering 80 percent of all crimes. They are selling drugs to your[Read More…]
Mother of California Octuplets – What’s Your Opinion?
Commentary By Rosemary Piser Associate Editor, eNews Park Forest Nadya Suleman, the Southern California woman who recently gave birth to octuplets, provided her reasons for having a large family during Ann Curry’s exclusive interview on Friday’s Today show. According to Ms. Suleman, while growing up as an only child she[Read More…]
Media Matters: Fundamentally Flawed Stimulus Coverage
by Jamison Foser If there’s one fact that should be made clear in every news report about the stimulus package working its way through Congress, it is this: Government spending is stimulative. That’s a basic principle of economics, and understanding it is essential to assessing any stimulus package. So it[Read More…]
Valentine Decorations and 1950s Dolls at 1950s House Museum
The 1950s Park Forest House Museum will reopen for the season on Saturday February 7 from 1-3 p.m. The Forest Boulevard Classroom is decorated for a 1950s Valentines Day party and vintage Valentines are on display throughout the house. I have been installing a very special exhibit of Dolls of[Read More…]
Lincoln Highway History Program Feb 8 at Village Hall
Don’t forget to come to Village Hall on Sunday February 8 at 2:30 p.m. to hear Local Historian, Cynthia Ogorek talk about her new Arcadia book, The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago. It is the Park Forest Historical Society’s tribute to the 200th Birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The meeting of the[Read More…]
1950s Dolls and Valentines on Display at 1950s Museum
The 1950s Park Forest House Museum reopens for the year on Saturday February 7 from 1-3 p.m. The Forest Boulevard School classroom is decorated for a 1950s Valentines Day party, and vintage Valentines are on display throughout the house. I have been installling a very special exhibit on Dolls of[Read More…]
Even More Myths and Falsehoods Surrounding Economic Recovery Plan
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Media Matters for America previously identified numerous myths and falsehoods advanced by the media in their coverage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. As debate on the bill continues in Congress, other myths and falsehoods advanced by the media about the recovery package have risen to prominence.[Read More…]
Dobbs, Master of Fear-Mongering, Warns Obama, Pelosi Are “Fear-Mongering” to Pass Stimulus Bill
On the February 4 edition of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs declared that, in recent comments about the state of the economy, President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have been “fear-mongering” and “blatantly using the politics of fear to push for even more so-called stimulus measures.”[Read More…]
