New Lenox News

The fiscal year for Lincoln-Way High School District 210 ended June 30, with $2.18 million of state funding not in the district's hands.

MorningStar Mission wants its 3.5 -acre retail plaza annexed into the village of New Lenox.

Graffiti can be art. It can threaten, insult, point out drugs, mark turf. And graffiti lets out what the sprayer feels he can't say out loud.

New Lenox resident and U S Veteran Paul Chen has been named the State of Illinois\' June of 2009 "Veteran of the Month" by Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs director Don Grant.

On any given day, the tiny hamlet known as Marley is a quiet, quaint tree-lined community that exists in its own corner of the world.

New Lenox Village officials have thrown their support behind the Hickory Creek Watershed Planning Group's initiative for development of plans for improvements to the Hickory Creek watershed.

You can't put a price on patriotism. As costly as fireworks displays are, separate shows will go on in the Lincoln-Way area as planned this Fourth of July in Frankfort, Mokena and New Lenox.

It's all about connections. Just as motorists now can easily travel from New Lenox to Bolingbrook and points further north via Interstate 355, so also will bicyclists some day.

A pizza deliveryman told police he was threatened by a masked man with a gun early Sunday.

Even though he sits in a wheelchair, New Lenox resident Antonio Del Rio stands head and shoulders above the crowd.

Nearly one year ago, Crossroads Shih Tzu rescue formed in the New Lenox area. Since then, the organization has saved 100 Shih Tzu, Shih Tzu-mix and other small breed dogs.

The New Lenox Village Board looked further during Monday night's meeting at the planned North Cedar Road improvement project.

Clinton Road, from Route 6 south to St. Francis Road, will have a new name to reflect the new kid on the block -- Silver Cross Boulevard.

Cedar Road, which has become a major link to Interstate 355, will be improved this year to keep traffic flowing through New Lenox.

Kurtz Memorial Chapel expects to double its New Lenox business after village trustees agreed June 8 to annex and rezone two lots east of the funeral home at the southeast corner of Cedar and Francis roads.

Here's a business pop quiz: What store is so coveted in the Southland that Homer Glen celebrated its annexation with cake, New Lenox credits it with helping to pass a home rule referendum request and Mokena says it's been the most-asked about development in town? Give up? It's Meijer.

While everyone is feeling the pinch of the economy, New Lenox Mayor Tim Baldermann says the village is chugging along.

When Beth Paulsen and Keith Blazina decided to buy the house at 110 W. Haven Ave., in New Lenox, they had no idea of its historical significance.

Soon, steel framing will be erected on the already complete foundation of the newest hospital in the Southland.

Township officials are urging qualified senior citizens to take advantage of their Meals on Wheels programs sponsored by the Senior Services of Will County and New Lenox Township.