Candice Franks, agricultural educator at Badger High School in Lake Geneva, is one of six individuals nationwide who received the Agriscience Teacher of the Year Award, given at the National Association of Agricultural Educators annual convention in New Orleans on Nov. 19. The National Agriscience Teacher of the Year award […]

A Genoa City woman appeared in court Tuesday on a homicide charge in connection with a May drunken driving accident that killed a passenger in the car she was driving. Deidra M. Dawley, 35, pleaded not guilty Oct. 1 to homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and homicide by […]

      Badger High School’s cast of “Wild Pecos Bill and Tales of the West” is composed of (front to back, from left) Piper Radtke, Briana Pankonin, Mercedes Sharkus, Jackson Bruns, Nathan Hancock, Sofijia Djurjulov, Kelly Gerlitz, Kori Maclay, Hope Oberg, Kelly Locander, stage managers Lilliann Weintz and Ashley […]

Initiative helps employers accommodate workers who care for family members On Oct. 23, Gov. Scott Walker and Department of Health Services Secretary Kitty Rhoades visited the Primex family of companies in Lake Geneva to unveil the latest initiative in the Dementia-Capable Wisconsin program. The Dementia-Friendly Employers Tool Kit is designed […]

The U.S. Navy’s Commodores will present a free concert at Lake Geneva Middle School at 3 p.m. Sunday. The Commodores, a specialty unit of the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., features 18 of the Navy’s top jazz and “big band” musicians. Since their founding in 1969, the Commodores […]

Badger High School senior Mick T. Borchert has been named a commended student in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. Badger’s acting Principal Jenny Straus presented Borchert with a letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corp., which conducts the program. About 34,000 commended students throughout the […]

By Vicky Wedig Editor A Town of Bloomfield couple was sentenced to a year in the Walworth County Jail for abusing their six adopted children between 2004 and 2011, according to a local news report. The Lake Geneva Regional News reported last week Kathleen M. and Martin P. O’Brien, both […]

The Carriage House at Covenant Harbor Bible Camp sustained extensive interior damage from an Oct. 4 fire, according to the Lake Geneva Fire Department. Firefighters were dispatched to the camp, 1724 W. Main St., at about 12:10 p.m. Oct. 4 and discovered a well-involved fire in the unoccupied Carriage House, […]

Above: Badger High School U.S. history teacher Jeff Schmidt (second from right) fires a cannon with assistance from Civil War re-enactors (from left) Ken Monroe, Dennis Brennan and Greg Bochniak and Dan Lezhowicz (right). The re-enactment group came to Badger Sept. 28) to demonstrate a Civil War era cannon and other […]

Former Brookwood Elementary School students, who are now Badger High School seniors, completed their senior projects by sprucing up the Genoa City school including painting a mural in the entryway at the middle school. Former Brookwood teacher Gerri Duros-Cooper led 10 students – Tiana Howard, Allison Johnson, Kurtis Knull, Madisun […]