Week in Review: Storm Knocks Out Power, Rob Lowe as Drew Peterson and Bolingbrook House Fire

Too busy last week to stay up to date on all the news happening in and around Bolingbrook? Not to worry. Patch has your back.

In case you missed them, here were some of the top headlines from the last few days:

• A severe thunderstorm passed through Bolingbrook Monday morning, leaving more than for days.
• A 75-year-old Plainfield man was charged with with a firearm in connection with a gun attack on his wife and stepdaughter. 
• An afternoon house fire at a Bolingbrook home near the Bolingbrook Recreation and Aquatic Center caused .
• Lifetime  of Rob Lowe as Drew Peterson. Peterson's lawyers later tried to get Lifetime to .
• A Bolingbrook man accused of sexually abusing the daughters of a woman he dated was Wednesday.
• Three Lewis University students from Bolingbrook were among more than two dozen volunteers sent to Sucre, Bolivia, to .
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• Bolingbrook High School Assistant Principal Dan Laverty became the .
• In a show of solidarity, the five communities—including Bolingbrook—looking to create their own water company in order to takeover an Illinois American Water pipeline are all that would allow them to do so.
• In less than a month, the state has slacked on nearly $1 million worth of bills it was supposed to pay the Valley View School District. The state .
• A recommended bringing a full-day kindergarten program to Valley View, but finding funding sources to take the burden off parents posed a bigger challenge.
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• The Valley View website debuted the , which is designed to answer questions about the upcoming school year and more.
• One of Drew Peterson's lawyers, Joel Brodsky, said the jurors in the Casey Anthony murder case and hinted that it may be good news for his client.
• Three men were arrested for at gunpoint.
• Three pieces of jewelry valued at more than $8,000 were .
• We , a Kiwanis and DuCAP volunteer that works to make a positive impact on area youths.
• Motorcycle rider Daniel Donaldson, 31, was airlifted to in Downers Grove following a crash.
• Valley View students in grades K-8 will over the course of three weeks each school year.
• , who retired this year after nearly four decades with Valley View, as district food director. Gibbons said the district will get rid of 2 percent milk and stick with 1 percent or skim milk.