Live and Learn Shorewood Rewind

A couple weekends ago we strayed from Shorewood and headed east to check out the Frankfort Fall Festival in Frankfort.

We're not going to make that mistake again.

Well, it wasn't terrible, but it certainly wasn't Shorewood either. The Shorewood Crossroads Festival has it all over the Frankfort Fall Festival, just like Shorewood has it all over Frankfort, and everywhere else for that matter.

So let's take a look at Shorewood, and the things that happened in Shorewood last week. We do this every Sunday. We call it the Shorewood Rewind, and we hope you ejoy it.

County Line crash

A rust-colored, cube-shaped car reportedly pulled out in front of a motorcycle, stopped briefly, watched the bike go down, then sped off. The motorcyclist emerged from the wreck at the intersection of County Line Road and Route 52 with non-life threatening injuries.

Roman roamin'

During a village board meeting, Mayor Rick Chapman said a wistful goodbye to outgoing Economic Development Director Nancy Roman, as Roman had recently married a man from Texas and was moving down there to live with him. But wait a minute — moving to Texas or not, Roman is still going to be able to work as the economic development in New Lenox, which is the same town former Shorewood Village Administrator Kurt Carroll took a job with after baling on the Wood. Who's New Lenox taking next? We'll just have to wait and find out.

Joliet takes Shorewood's sewage, money

At the same village board meeting, trustees approved a measure to pay Joliet to take Shorewood's sewage.

Slammers dig hole

The Slammers dropped the opening game of the Frontier League championship series, losing 8-5 to the River City Rascals.