Shorewood Rewind

This last week in Shorewood was a short one, as we celebrated President's Day here and across the country.

If you were lucky enough, you did not have to go to work on Monday or got double time for your trouble. If you were not, well, at least you got a job.

But even with a day off to make things more relaxing, it was still a hot time here in Shorewood. It takes a lot more than just a national holiday to cool things down around this way.

There was the pageantry of high school basketball, the vulgarity of price-gouging oil companies, advice for mothers on what to do with themselves and their children, and a pretty big court case down the road in Joliet.

So come, let's take a look together at all the wonderful things that happened this week on the Shorewood Patch with your weekly Shorewood Rewind.

Lincoln, Washington deadlock

It was President's Day, and an conducted by the Shorewood Patch revealed that Washington and Lincoln were our nation's two best presidents.

Conner guilty, likely prison-bound

A jury deliberated for nine hours before finding Cecil Conner of Steger of aggravated drunken driving in connection with a wreck that killed his girlfriend's 5-year-old son. Conner faces up to 14 years in prison.

What to do to unwind

Apparently a manicure or a pedicure is a good idea, at least according to story, which is just one of many the Shorewood Patch provides each week to mothers in search of stuff to do.

The fall of Minooka

Plainfield North standout senior Jack Krieger returned from an eight-game absence due to a broken thumb to help lead the Tigers to a 48-47 over Minooka in the boys basketball regular-season finale for both teams.

Gas goes through roof

The price of gasoline in Shorewood . But no matter how bad things get around here, it has to beat living in Libya.

Cops clean up town

The Shorewood police were all over the place last week, making lots of and even taking two men to jail.