In this week’s Independent…

• Elkhorn Area School District was recently honored as a Project Lead The Way Distinguished District, one of just over 30 districts nationwide to be named as such. Students and staff at several EASD schools along with a parent of three children were interviewed about the difference PLTW has made in their lives;

• Gateway Technical College, Elkhorn, will host ‘Celebrate Earth Day’ on Saturday;

• A trio of local siblings (and their grandfather) take advantage of last weekend’s snowstorm by building a large snowman

• Walworth County Public Health offers information on sexually transmitted diseases and testing, and free condoms for protection, in conjunction with April being STD Awareness Month;

• Elkhorn native Nicole Fleiner is the artist of the month for the county’s Arts Council;

• Also, read the local police blotter and the latest court and library news, among other things.

In sports…

• The Elks baseball team opens with a split; the EAHS boys tennis team wins three of four singles matches against Burlington; the boys golf team earned a sixth-place finish in the first conference major of the season; Payton Christensen lands on the SLN all-area girls basketball team for the second year in a row.

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