Complete news coverage of Walworth County from Southern Lakes Newspapers
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Tearful notice caps off spirited meeting Edwin Scherzer Correspondent Sharon Village Board of Trustees will be looking for a new presiding officer by next spring as current board president Diana Dykstra announced her intent to resign the position. The announcement came at the end of an active agenda filled […]
By Tyler Lamb Editor In the post Citizens United era, one of colossal campaign finance, it seems like mission impossible to remove big money from politics, let alone get Congress to begin a process to amend the Constitution. Nevertheless, activists in Elkhorn, Delavan and Lake Geneva will be going door-to-door […]
By Tyler Lamb Editor Ground was officially broken Monday morning at the site of the new Aurora Health Center, celebrating what Sen. Neal Kedzie called “an investment” in Walworth County. Foundation work has already begun for the 30,000-square-foot, $12-million walk-in health center that will house services such as Audiology, Obstetrics […]
Matilda “Tilly” Sternig, 99, passed away peacefully at the Hearthstone in Whitewater on Sept. 8, 2013. Tilly came to Whitewater in 2007 and she moved to Fairhaven in 2009 where she has many friends who admired her strength of character and will miss her spunk. In 1926, at the […]
Robert “Bob” Alfred Blyth, 87, of Weatherford, Okla., passed away Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 at Weatherford Regional Hospital. He was born April 30, 1926 in Milwaukee, Wis., to Laurence Dale and Margaret (Klink) Blyth. Robert was raised and attended school in East Troy and graduated from East Troy High School […]
Kathleen A. Riley, age 61, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 at Deerfield Place Assisted Living in Deerfield, Wis. Kathleen was born on Dec. 8, 1951, the daughter of the late James and Julia (Koszyczarek) Crubaugh. Kathleen attended Troy Center Grade School and graduated from Palmyra-Eagle High School. She […]
Edwin H. Hansen, 82, of Whitewater, formerly of Fort Atkinson and Minocqua, went home to the Lord surrounded by his family on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. This tough Norwegian survived falling out of a tree with a running chainsaw, a constant battle with squirrels at birdfeeders, injuries by hogs […]
Skeet (Roger) P. Theesfeld, 49, of East Troy passed away on Aug. 29, 2013 of a brain aneurysm. Born to Roger J. (Dortha) Theesfeld and Diane L. (Walter J.) Plochocki, (nee Stefanski) at Waukesha Memorial Hospital on July 1, 1964. He graduated from East Troy High School and went […]
Ernest G. Correll Jr., 73, lost his battle with cancer, but found his home with Jesus on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 at his home of 43 years in Honey Lake, with his family at his side. He was born in Hammond, Ind., to Thelma and Ernest Correll Sr. on […]
Terrance A. “TL” Leiskau, 67, of Town Hall Road, Oma, died unexpectedly Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013, at home. He was born Aug. 27, 1946, in New London, son of the late Atwood and Laverne (Koplein) Leiskau, and resided in East Troy, where he graduated from high school in 1964. He […]
