Need to catch up on your reading? No problem. Here's a look at some of this week's headlines from Romeoville Patch.

• With a new year on the horizon, Patch took a look at what's in store for Romeoville in 2011 and beyond.
• The Community Service Council of Northern Will County is juggling a record-high caseload. The organization recently moved back into its Parkwood Avenue headquarters after being forced to evacuate by the Enbridge oil spill in September.
• After getting off to a shaky start, the Spartans boys basketball team finished with a flourish at the Lemont Christmas Classic.
• New year, new laws: Nearly 200 new laws took effect in Illinois on Jan. 1.
• Despite frigid winter weather, construction on an addition to the Lewis University science building is on schedule, according to university president Br. James Gaffney.
  Making that tried and true New Year's resolution to get in shape? A Life Time Fitness personal trainer offers his advice on sticking to it.
• Valley View administrators are taking a new look at the district's policies on grading and student promotion.
• Three Chicago women face credit card fraud charges after police said they attempted to buy gas with a phony gift card.
• A 23-year-old man from Chicago died after being crushed by three-ton slabs of granite in a workplace accident.
• Romeoville firefighters and Citgo crews responded to an overhead gas line fire at BOC Gases near the Lemont refinery.
• Challenges were filed against the petitions of three incumbent candidates for the Valley View board of education.