Here is the news! Tickets for the Riverside Person of the Year dinner honoring Riverside Deputy Fire Chief Bill Sherman are now available. 

We've been hopeful before only to have those hopes dashed, but an arbitrator's ruling denying the village of North Riverside an opportunity to present its case for terminating its contract with union firefighters separate from final-offer arbitration looks to have done the trick.

If anyone had any doubts as to whether the newly constituted majority of the Lyons-Brookfield School District 103 Board of Education would allow Superintendent Kristopher Rivera to manage the day-to-day affairs of the district, those doubts should now be cleared up.

Some things never change in Riverside.

Tax dollars meant for education are going to lawyers' fees in a lawsuit between Lyons Township High School District 204 and a separate government agency called Township Trustees of Schools. 

As a cyclist who uses the sidewalk as a bike path along First Avenue between Waubansee Road and Ogden Avenue, I would like to compliment the project of weed clearing and paved sidewalk surface restoration along this stretch of roadway. 

Local boy makes good, very good! Riverside-raised Larry Wert is that "boy." From the boy who attended St. Mary's Grade School, Fenwick High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he went from early aspirations of being an Olympic swimmer to president of Tribune Broadcasting.

If anyone is looking for an example of government waste, they really need look no further than what is transpiring in Lyons Township, where for the past six years the Lyons Township Treasurer of Schools has been pursuing a lawsuit against Lyons Township High School District 204.

I normally don't feel old, but when it comes to digital technology, I do. I consider myself a fast learner, but it seems to me that every time I catch on they are changing it again. 

According to the report, "The Justice Gap," low-income Americans receive no or inadequate legal help for 86 percent for their non-criminal legal problems.