Week in Review: 10/3 to 10/9

Here's a rundown of some of the things that we wrote about in Downers Grove last week:

• cross country freshman Amanda Thate set a new school record for a 3-mile run with a time of 17 minutes and 13 seconds.

•Lynn Hudoba wrote about whether purging is as much of a disorder as hoarding.

•Eric Gilford, charged with killing his wife and unborn child in 2010, was sentenced to 100 years in jail.

•Some long-term weather predictions started surfacing last week predicting the Chicago area winter could be the worst in the nation.

•Stormwater utility fees were discussed in further detail during Tuesday's village council meeting.

•Current school board VP Debbie Boyle got her house rep campaign started with a fundraiser at Wednesday.

•In the wake of Steve Jobs death Growing Up in the Grove writer Andrea Knudsen talked about all of the Apple products she grew up with.

• is seeking an expanded liquor license, and our readers had a lot of opinions on the matter.

•Former Patch editor Elaine Johnson is returning to Patch to write a column and she'd like to let you know what it's going to be about.

•A group of runners talked about their running experience heading into the Chicago Marathon.

•The recently got a new fire truck.

•Changes to field usage by affiliate teams could increase revenue for the .

•Downers Grove South won again, topping Proviso East.