Week in Review: Feb. 27 - March 5: State, Local Officials Weigh In On Consolidation, Argonne Funding

Highlights from last week:

• Judy Biggert that would significantly decrease funding for Argonne National Laboratory. Also last week, to discuss the negative impact the proposed budget reductions would have on the United States’ place in the global economy.

• Mayor Brian Reaves that state takeover could be a good thing for Lemont-Bromberek Combined School District 113A or the Lemont community as a whole.

• The Lemont High School boys basketball season with the team’s heartbreaking loss to Julian. Final score: Julian 48, Lemont 47.

• Romeoville High School students taking part in the St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraiser last week honored , a Lemont child who died last year of cancer.

• The Warrior Booster Club announced plans for .

• For the first time, the Lemont Quarryman 10 Mile and Woodridge’s Waterfall Glen Xtreme 10 are joining to create a .

• Talks of school consolidation by state lawmakers threaten the future of federal funding for Lemont High School, which receives for Argonne National Laboratory’s presence within its boundaries.

• Lemont agencies of the more than $900,000 spent on blizzard cleanup last month if President Barack Obama grants the governor’s wish to declare the area a federal disaster zone.

• This Must Be the Place was named by the Lemont Area Chamber of Commerce.