DuPage County briefs

Glendale Heights Fest opens

Glendale Heights Fest opens from 6 to 11 p.m. Wednesday at Camera Park, 101 E. Fullerton Ave. Opening ceremonies are at 6 p.m. followed by 50th Anniversary festivities at 6:30 p.m., The Buckinghams with special guest Ronnie Rice at 7:30 p.m., fireworks by Lumina at 9:30 p.m. and Jack Flash at 9:50 p.m. The festival continues through Sunday.

NCTV receives two awards

Naperville Community Television, Channel 17, recently was chosen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts to receive two National Communication Awards of Distinction. The awards were given for NCTV's "Naperville Connection" and "Naperville Sports Weekly." "Naperville Connection" is a news show that features festivals, city events, school district updates, artistic ventures, and health, safety and environmental stories. The program airs daily at 7:30 a.m., noon, 6, 9 and 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. on Channel 17 and NCTV17.com. "Naperville Sports Weekly" features athletic teams from all five area high schools and airs multiple times a week throughout the school year.

State police nab offenders on tollways

Illinois State Police District 15 officials announced the results of five June enforcement campaigns that resulted in nearly 260 citations for a variety of violations. District 15 is the law enforcement arm of the Illinois Tollway Authority. Three of the campaigns targeted speeders and the other two were alcohol-related. The three speeding campaigns took place June 18, 24 and 29 along I-355, I-294 and I-88 in five counties. Troopers ticketed 162 motorists and issued 66 written warnings, with 113 of the citations being written for speeding. The two "Alcohol Countermeasure Enforcement" patrols conducted last month took place on toll roads in Cook, DuPage and Kane counties, state police officials said. Those campaigns resulted in four arrests for drunken driving, 44 tickets for speeding, eight tickets for underage consumption and a bevy of other violations.

13 ticketed for fireworks

Villa Park police Monday announced that 13 people were cited for unlawful possession of fireworks during the Fourth of July. According to police, village ordinance citations were issued to 11 people. Two others were charged with a Class A misdemeanor.

Villa Park cracks down

Villa Park police say they issued 232 tickets from June 19 until Sunday as part of increased traffic patrols funded with federal grant money. Of the tickets that were issued, 10 were for DUIs, 14 were for speeding, 17 were for safety belt/child restraint violations and 65 were for license and insurance problems, police said. Another 126 citations were issued for other types of moving violations. Police said one felony arrest was made.