The Reporter

Charley Niego is named Regional/Reporter Athlete of the Year

Photo by Jeff Vorva Charley Niego lets out a yell after receiving a state championship medal. When Charley Niego walked through the gym doors at Mother McAuley High School for her first volleyball practice three years ago, she had one goal. She wanted to be on a team that won an Illinois High School Association volleyball championship, just like her mother – Therese Boyle-Niego – did in 1980 and 1981. It was a bond... Read more

Palos Hills could get soaked by Oak Lawn’s water distribution cost overruns and larger bills
The Palos Hills Board discussed in length the subject of water and the larger monthly bills they will have to pay during the committee-of-the-whole meeting last Thursday night. The cost to…
Mystery buyer for old Palos Hills racquetball club property
Photo by Joe Boyle The site of the old Palos Olympic Health & Racquetball Club at 11050 S. Roberts Road in Palos Hills is a fenced off. City officials learned last…
Cub pitches in to brighten spirits at Advocate Children’s Hospital
Photo by Kelly White Chicago Cubs reliever Mike Montgomery, talks with avid baseball fan, Jackson Codair, 7, and his mother, Kohlby Codair, on Aug. 2 at Advocate Children's Hospital in Oak…

High school season just started and hist…

Supplied photo Golfer Maddy Misicka became the first female to participate in an IHSA event for St. Laurence. The new high school sports season is in its infant stages and there is already some history for the area to brag about. The first came on Thursday when St. Laurence’s Maddy Misicka became the first female in the 56-year history of the former all-boys school to participate in an Illinois High School Association event when she shot a 93... Read more

Let's talk about playoffs with…
Photo by Jeff Vorva The Chicago Fire and Matt Polster have been soaring this season and ar…
ThunderBolts have good pair on…
Photo by Jeff Vorva Mike Rankin, left, and Terry Bonadonna have been calling the action …
Jeff Vorva's Extra Point: Some…
Photo by Melissa Tamez The Chicago Fire’s Dax McCarty (left) and Orlando City’s Dom Dwye…

BEAR UNNECISSITIES

‘Ted 2’ sequel should have stayed in hibernation The comedy “Ted 2” is an unneeded sequel to the film “Ted.” The first brought us Mark Wahlberg as John, along with Seth MacFarlane as Ted, his foul-mouthed Teddy bear of a best friend. This film picks up a little after the first film ended. We see the bear getting married to his sleazy fiancee, Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth), at a wedding officiated by Sam... Read more

‘Terminator Genisys’ is abysm…
“I’ll be back” is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most memorable line from a movie, and back he is, in …

Time is right for opening door to new po…

Columns

Photo by Claudia Parker Claudia Parker is retiring as a columnist so she can pursue other projects, like this recent assignment taking photos of a 2017 graduate. “When one door closes, another one opens…” --Alexander Graham Bell Cheers to new beginnings! Last Saturday, I shot senior portraits for a 2017 graduate who said, “Do whatever you want,” she shrugged. “You’re the photographer, I trust you.” My mind looped with endless possibilities. “I’ve got this,” I told... Read more

Death came knocking, but ‘Chit…
Nancy Knapp Horn and Penny Graham Weaver, of Middletown, Ohio, describe themselves as two c…
Family crisis allows my daught…
Photo by Claudia Parker Donae Parker poses for a recent photo to be used in a progra…
Memories of tornado are still …
I can’t recall specifically the events that led up to the devastating tornado that ripped t…