A parcel of Brookfield village-owned land sought by developers in recent months will be sold to the highest bidder at the beginning of March.

Candidates for elective office were up bright and early Monday morning in Brookfield, the first day to turn in nominating petitions for the April 5 consolidated election. Voters will head to the polls that day to elect a village president, three village trustees, a village clerk and three library board trustees.

The following information was obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside and Brookfield police departments from Jan. 10 through Jan. 16 and represents a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. The cases have not yet been adjudicated.

Petias and Apolnonija Steponivicius left Lithuania 18 years ago to come to America. In Lithuania, the couple was actors and also owned a small cafe. They came to America in search of help for Petias’s health problems.

Every year Carol Spale, coordinator of the North Riverside Neighborhood Services Committee, gives away Christmas gifts to special members of the community at the end of the year. These gifts are just one of the many ways Spale and the block captains of the committee spread kindness throughout the community.

After shaking hands with VIP Party President Thomas Nowicki in November on a no-political-sign pact between the two rival political parties in Brookfield, PEP Party President David LeClere would like to make the agreement official.

The board of a suburban tuberculosis agency must refrain from voting on the proposed allocation of more than $1.5 million in taxpayer money for employee severance packages, a Cook County Circuit Court judge ruled Jan. 12.

If August is considered the dog days of summer, then January has to be the dog days of the school year. With no relief in sight until spring break, the only thing a kid can hope for is a snow day.

With just two-and-a-half months until the April election, Brookfield resident Martin Crowley got a leg up on any opponents in the race in District 208 on Jan. 11, when the school board voted to appoint him to the board. Crowley replaces Mario Lavorato, who resigned from the board in late December citing heath reasons.