GROUNDBREAKING from page 1 novation, progress, and unity,” he said. The speakers and village board members gathered around a collection of golden shovels for a photo-op to celebrate the demolition and construction project. A new shared facility for the village has been in discussion since before the pandemic. Several iterations of a new building have been proposed and developed over

Areas of Interest AREA OF INTEREST from page 10 dominant submerged aquatic species is Illinois pondweed. Emergents include white water-lily, bull-head pond-lily, and hard-stem bulrush. A small zone of sedges and bulrushes on the north end is the only open wetland. Older tamaracks, which formerly surrounded the lake, have died but the species is reproducing well along the northwestern and southern