The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County's newly elected seven-member Board of Commissioners, all incumbents, took their oaths of office this week and determined the lengths of their terms. Marsha Murphy will continue to represent District 1; Tina Tyson-Dunne, District 2; Linda Painter, District 3; Jeff Gahris, District 4; Barbara O’Meara, District 5; and Al Murphy, District 6. Board president Daniel Hebreard will continue to represent the county at-large.
At its Nov. 1 meeting, the Batavia Committee of the Whole heard from city engineer Rahat Bari, who discussed stormwater mitigation in the Carriage Crest subdivision.
Elmhurst University President Troy D. VanAken and other University ambassadors recently hit the road to personally congratulate more than 100 Chicago-area high school and transfer students, and even a graduate student who all were just accepted to Elmhurst through its early action admission program.