Politics, like everything else, has been profoundly altered by the pandemic. In a normal year with Election Day just two weeks away, campaign volunteers would be hitting the streets ringing doorbells and knocking on doors trying to persuade voters to vote for their favorite candidates. 

Lauren Sapienza is due to deliver a baby in two weeks, but that didn't stop her for waiting in line for nearly two hours to cast her ballot for U.S. president and other state and federal offices on the morning of Oct. 19, the first day of early voting, at the Brookfield Village Hall.

As students return to Riverside-Brookfield High School in the coming weeks, they will learn, as some already have, that there are two new deans this year.

Students attending school in person in Riverside Elementary School District 96 will soon have the option to be tested weekly for the presence of the coronavirus.