Gregg Voss

1 week ago | usahockey.com | Gregg Voss

Managing, whether in business, an association or even a hockey team, isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes ambition, empathy and a focus on making everyone better. Andrew Sobotka does all these things as an engineering manager at his day job and did them as well as the president of the Chicago Gay Hockey Association for over 14 years.

1 week ago | ecmag.com | Andrea Klee |Gregg Voss

General concerns about the direction of the economy since the turn of the year, including the effect of tariffs, has affected construction employment at the state level, according to an analysis of federal employment data by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). According to AGC, between April 2024 and April 2025, 32 states and the District of Columbia saw increased construction employment.

1 week ago | austinweeklynews.com | Gregg Voss

The date was nebulous when the announcement came March 2 that St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy Catholic church would be closing, though it would be happening sometime in June. There is now a final mass date – 10 a.m. Sunday at the venerable church at 27 Washington Blvd. in Oak Park. That’s going to be a tough day for the mass celebrant, the Rev. Carl Morello, pastor of St. Catherine-St. Lucy and St. Giles, who made that March 2 announcement from the pulpit.

1 week ago | austinweeklynews.com | Gregg Voss

St. Angela Catholic School will have a new leadership team this fall. Whitney McIntosh will become St. Angela’s new principal, while Christine Molina-Rebecca will serve as executive director at the Austin neighborhood school at 1332 N. Massasoit Ave. They will also oversee St. Sylvester in Palmer Square and St. Agnes of Bohemia in Little Village.  McIntosh most recently served as the founding principal and CEO of Young Women’s Leadership Academy in Las Vegas.

2 weeks ago | rblandmark.com | Gregg Voss

Along the first base line on the high school softball diamond at Brookfield’s Ehlert Park, five-year-old Gus zoomed by on his wheelchair, a big grin on his face. He was dressed in a bright yellow shirt with black short sleeves and a black cap with the bill upturned. Nearby, near home plate, his dad, Kevin Boyle, was smiling too. “Gus can’t talk, so it’s always hard to tell what Gus enjoys, but it’s also nice to get him involved in things a typical child would do,” Boyle said.