North Riverside trustees on July 13 voted to approve a generous sales tax rebate incentive to one of the village's two car dealerships, resulting in a commitment for that business to remain in town for the next two decades.

A database released last week by the U.S. Small Business Administration shows that 521 businesses and nonprofits in Brookfield, North Riverside and Riverside applied for and received up to $112,163,000 from the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) created to help small businesses and nonprofits navigate the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The total number of Riverside residents testing positive for COVID-19 topped 100 last week, with five new cases reported week over week as of the morning of July 14. The total number of cases in Riverside as of Tuesday stood at 103.

The school year will begin nine days earlier than normal this year in Lyons-Brookfield School District 103, as a divided school board voted 4 to 3 at a June 30 special meeting to start school on Aug. 17. 

It's been two years since West Central Consolidated Communications, the joint emergency dispatch operation more commonly known as WC3, went live. But, this week, the center will roll out its emergency medical dispatch (EMD) service, which will allow dispatchers to provide potentially life-saving instructions to callers and enhanced pre-arrival information to paramedics responding to calls.

Four schools in LaGrange-Brookfield District 102, including Congress Park School in Brookfield, are in line to have their roofs outfitted with solar panels, which will reduce the cost of buying electricity and fulfill the school board's goal to operate more sustainably.