Easter Week Shorewood Rewind

Happy Easter! We hope you are having a great holiday weekend here in the great Village of Shorewood. And after the wild week we just went through, you deserve it.

Things didn't really heat up until mid-week, but all the action certainly made up for the late start.

So join us once more as we play the week back again for twice the enjoyment with the SHOREWOOD REWIND:

Kurt Carroll takes talents to New Lenox

The Shorewood Patch breaks the about Kurt Carroll, the Shorewood village administrator since January 2001, quitting to go work for New Lenox. A source said Carroll, who is making in excess of $110,000 a year, is leaving Shorewood and heading east "probably for more money." New Lenox Mayor Tim Baldermann said Carroll's start date at the new job will be May 31. Shorewood has yet to line up Carroll's replacement.

Maintenance man saves day at The Timbers

John Kraske, the maintenance director at The Timbers of Shorewood, doused a with water and a fire extinguisher before the flames could spread inside the building. The blaze was reportedly touched off by a smoldering cigarette butt inadvertently left on the balcony by a private care-giver who stepped outside for a smoke.

Mommy dearest

More of the obligatory mother stuff, every Wednesday, on Patch. This time we stirred things up with a from Erin Gallagher about a mom who provided her daughter with pot.

Hot properties in Shorewood

We a couple of tony homes in the town of Shorewood, just like we do every Thursday.

Uncooperative cops

The sister of missing St. Charles man John Spira wants to know what the DuPage County cops have been doing since her brother vanished more than four years ago. The police .