Month: March 2016

Whitewater

Wastewater project partnership approved 4-3

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent The ongoing discussion of the future of Whitewater’s wastewater treatment plant reached a new chapter last week when a potential public-private partnership for one component of the project bubbled to the surface. While city officials capped off 2015 with a plan to allocate $20.7 million toward […]

Whitewater

Council supports lakes study

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Whitewater’s two local bodies of water — Cravath and Trippe lakes — could receive some tender loving care this year after city officials have backed a series of proposals. The city had unsuccessfully sought grant dollars from the state Department of Natural Resources to study the […]

Obituaries

LOWELL KASTEN

      Lowell “Luke” Kasten, 88, Delavan, died March 21, 2016, at Lakeland Health Care Center, Elkhorn. He was born in Freeport, Ill., Jan. 31, 1928, to the late LeeRoy and Mabel (Huber) Kasten. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and returned to the Midwest to study dairy […]