Week in Review: Valley View OK's Draft Budget, Locals Announce State Campaigns

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:

• An 18-year-old Bolingbrook woman was hospitalized after being during a car crash on Bolingbrook’s west side Aug. 4.
• The Valley View school board OK'd a tentative budget for the next fiscal year. The draft 2011-12 budget ; the district’s fund balance will be used to offset the shortfall.
• Gena Proulx, president of Joliet Junior College since 2006, died Friday following a .
• A 40-year-old Bolingbrook man training for the Chicago Marathon in Channahon Thursday. 
• ChaRosnese Williams, a reserve on last season's Bolingbrook High School Lady Raiders girls basketball team, orally committed to .
• A pair of Tuesday for their alleged connection to a February armed robbery at a local gas station.
• Robert Kalnicky announced he  Brian J. Smith for the new 49th state Senate seat.
• A was sold in Romeoville.