Brookfield voters won’t have a tax referendum on the ballot when they go to the polls on Nov. 2. But they will be asked to consider a question asking elected officials in Springfield to reform the pension system for police and firefighters.

There will be a new firm investigating residency issues at Riverside-Brookfield High School this fall. Next week District 208 Interim Superintendent David Bonnette plans to recommend that the District 208 school board hire a new firm to conduct residency investigations at the school, replacing National Investigations, the firm that has handled residency investigations for the past two years at RB.

A man accused of passing bad checks at two Riverside businesses on Aug. 9 is in Stephenson County Jail after police in Freeport charged him with possession of a stolen motor vehicle.

The Brookfield Plan Commission could be weighing a proposal for a new church at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Maple Avenue as early as September, according to the woman who has spent more than $1 million assembling the land for the church over the past year.

Web Extra! See more real estate charts.While detached, single-family home values continued to dip in Brookfield and North Riverside during the first half of 2010, prices for homes in Riverside recovered slightly. Home buying activity also increased year over year in the first half of 2010 compared to 2009 in all three villages, although foreclosures and the sale of bank-owned properties continued to remain even or even accelerated.

First reported 8/17 2010 10:00 a.m.Riverside village trustees won’t wait until after the Nov. 2 election to determine the fate of its parks and recreation board. Instead, trustees are expected on Sept. 19 to dissolve the board and replace it with an advisory commission, stripping it of its authority over tax money collected specifically for recreation.

Web Extra!A man accused of passing bad checks at two Riverside businesses on Aug. 9 is in Stephenson County Jail after police in Freeport charged him with possession of a stolen motor vehicle. John Loresch, 42, was picked up by police in Freeport, a town about 25 miles west of Rockford during a traffic stop on Aug. 14, said Riverside Detective Sgt. David Krull.

First reported 08/16/10 4:45 p.m.Darryl Sutton, the man who in June was found guilty for a second time of raping and murdering Monica Rinaldi in Brookfield in 1991, was sentenced to natural life in prison by Judge Thomas M. Tucker on Aug. 11 at the Maybrook Courthouse.

Web Extra!Motorists and pedestrians in Riverside will need to watch out for a couple of waves of cyclists on Sundays in the coming weeks as two large bike events will be rolling through the village. The first cyclists will pedal through Riverside on Sunday, Aug. 15 during the 6th Annual Wright Ride, a recreational tour sponsored by the Oak Park Cycle Club.