Month: April 2008

Commission Sponsors Rain Garden and Rain Barrel Workshop

Commissioner Jim Saxton explains the rain barrel concept Saturday. (Photo: ENEWSPF) Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Sue Cuberly of the Rain Garden network conducted a second workshop at Village Hall Saturday. The presentation was sponsored by the Village of Park Forest, the Park Forest Environment Commission and the Garden Club of Park[Read More…]

What’s Wrong With This (Religious) Picture?

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar Assigned to draw a landscape, a senior at Tomah High School in Madison, Wis., drew a path surrounded by mountains and clouds leading to a cross. At the top of the picture, he put the words[Read More…]

Durbin Visits SouthCom

Senator Dick Durbin tours SouthCom Dispatch in Matteson. (Photo: VOPF) Senator meets with local officials and tours dispatch center Matteson, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Village Officials met with United States Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Saturday, March 29th at SouthCom Emergency Dispatch Center in Matteson. The meeting was a follow up to an earlier[Read More…]

PSC Approves Intergovernmental Agreement for Police On Campus

Chicago Heights , IL—(ENEWSPF)— Prairie State College Board members met in a special session last week to approve an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Chicago Heights Police Department, which is the beginning phase in the implementation of a trained police force at PSC. The Intergovernmental Agreement plan has been in process[Read More…]

Woman Faces False Prescription Charges

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Police arrested a woman who allegedly gave a false prescription to a pharmacist. Officers responded to a call from employees at Walgreens, 15 S. Orchard, on Friday, April 4 advising them at a customer had allegedly dropped off a false prescription for Hydrocodone, a narcotic drug related[Read More…]

Park Forest Police Report – April 14, 2008

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…]

Iraq: From One Dictator to the Next

Inter Press Service Analysis by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* BAGHDAD, Apr 12 (IPS) – Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was. "Al-Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means," 35-year-old Abdul-Riza[Read More…]

Baquba: A little too tense to be truce

Inter Press Service By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail* BAQUBA, Apr 8 (IPS) – As violence continues in Baghdad and southern Iraq, it seems quiet on the surface in Baquba, the volatile city 40km north of Baghdad. But few believe truce between the U.S.-backed Awakening Groups and the government security[Read More…]

Shia battles spread to Baquba

Inter Press Service By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail* BAQUBA, Apr 7 (IPS) – Battles between rival Shia groups have spread from Basra in the south to Baquba in the north. Clashes between the Mehdi Army of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Badr Organisation militia of the Supreme Islamic[Read More…]

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