The River Church will sponsor the annual Garden Walk Saturday, June 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $10. Proceeds from the event will benefit Feeding Fifty. Garden maps and tickets will be at Saturdays on the Square in Veterans Park in Elkhorn Saturday, with pickup from 8:30-11 […]
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Elkhorn’s Dean Wilson left large mark on the world
By Travis Pipes CONTRIBUTOR A towering front of gray clouds swept in from the west, stopping short of the football field at Elkhorn Area High School, on a dreary, late spring evening May 21. Hundreds of people shuffled into the stands there, a small table, microphone and stand […]
Dean Wilson remembered as winning coach, mentor
By Jennifer Eisenbart EDITOR If there was one person in the world who always seemed to have time for everyone, it was Elkhorn’s Dean Wilson. A coach, a teacher and finally an athletic director before his retirement in 2015, Wilson died May 10, at Aurora Lakeland Medical […]
Elkhorn food pantry goes online
EI 051222 Food pantry online By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor Like just about everything else lately, the Elkhorn Food Pantry is going online. As a way to make the pantry more accessible, the pantry recently added an online ordering system. The pantry, which serves those who live in the Elkhorn Area […]
Webster House scheduled for grand reopening
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor As the growth of historical societies in the area has shown, many are interested in finding out just what life was like in past centuries. Now, a Walworth County iconic spot is getting ready to reopen, with a change in style and reach further back into […]
Evergreen Country Club sold
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor After 20 years of ownership by a group of four partners, Evergreen Country Club has been sold. The information was first reported on Wisconsin.Golf and also confirmed by BizTimes.com. Wisconsin.Golf reported the buyer as Nehang Anand, a Chicago-area businessman. Anand has a partial ownership in other […]
New era starts for Elkhorn Fire Department
By Kellen Olshefski CORRESPONDENT With the swearing in of 10 career firefighters during the Feb. 5 City of Elkhorn Common Council meeting, the Elkhorn Area Fire Department not only marked the beginning of a new era for the City of Elkhorn, but for Walworth County as well. The […]
Change order increases construction project costs
By Kellen Olshefski CORRESPONDENT The City of Elkhorn Common Council voted 5-0 in favor of a change order for the 2021 Elkhorn Street Program construction project at its meeting Monday night. Alderman Ron Dunwiddie was absent from Monday’s meeting. According to a memo provided to the council […]
Middle schoolers to experience Service Fair
By Kellen Olshefski CORRESPONDENT The Elkhorn Resilience Coalition has planned a service organization fair for middle school students on Feb. 24 to help expose them to the numerous organizations that work to better the community in the Walworth County area. Elkhorn Area School District Community Resilience Outreach Coordinator […]
Let’s go fly a kite!
Elkhorn Middle School put on its production of “Mary Poppins” last weekend. Show here are, clockwise from above: Marshall Griffin (second from right), as George Banks, speaks with his children Ethan Justen and Eden Cochenour (from left, Michael and Jane Banks) with their mother Winifred, played by Ava Schmieden, looking […]
