How badly does Matt Sinde, the former president of the Riverside-Brookfield High School District 208 Board of Education want to get back at the board table? Apparently badly enough to be first in line on the morning of Dec. 10 to file his nominating petitions.

West Central Consolidated Communications (WC3), the central police/fire dispatch center that serves Brookfield, North Riverside, Riverside and McCook, is in line to receive about $913,000 in state grant funding to help offset technology infrastructure startup costs and also create a cash reserve for the fledgling agency, which went live in May.

Brookfield voters will have plenty of choices when they head to the polls in early 2019 to choose three people to serve as village trustees. 

Teachers in Lyons Township High School District 204 have been working without a contract since school began in August. Negotiations on a new contract started in March and are continuing, but no agreement has yet been reached. 

Brookfield village trustees gave the green light to the first new mixed-use development in downtown Brookfield in decades on Dec. 10, voting unanimously to award the zoning variations for a project that will be built at 3704 Grand Blvd.

The village of Brookfield will move to tear down the vacant Brookfield Bowl at 3415 Maple Ave. in early 2019 after at least two instances in which people broke into the former bowling alley, one of them resulting in an attempt to burn it down.