Month: March 2015

Whitewater area

Unbeaten and hungry

 Lady Whippets head to state for first time in school history By Adam Knoll Sports Correspondent The Lady Whippets remain undefeated and with the most recent win, Saturday against Dodgeville in the sectional final, have earned a trip to the WIAA State Girls Basketball Tournament for the first time in […]

Lake Geneva area

Badgers fall to Verona

Foul makes would-be game-winning shot no good By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Lake Geneva Badger boys basketball team lost a heartbreaker to an athletic and physical Verona team in the opening round of Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association regional play Friday. The Badgers trailed by as many as 15 in […]

East Troy area

In the playoffs

Trojans face Evansville in sectional semifinal Thursday By Dan Truttschel Correspondent The final score from two games with Evansville during the regular season shows a two-point win for both the Blue Devils and East Troy. But the reality is the Trojans also enjoyed huge leads in each contest before Evansville […]

East Troy area

Boys take regional championship

By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Prior to last weekend’s Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 3 regional, East Troy High School boys basketball coach Darryl Rayfield figured both teams would give his team some challenges. But when the Trojans play team defense like they did, those hurdles were more than easy to […]

Elkhorn

A pair of troopers

Mallory Bulow and Jackie Siedenburg-Sis sell Girl Scout cookies for Elkhorn Troop 3305 to Joan Kaye of Delavan at the recent Barnyard Bargain Bonanza at the Walworth County Fairgrounds. The indoor flea market will again be returning to the fairgrounds on March 28 with proceeds benefit the Walworth County Fair’s […]

East Troy

How to spend the surplus

Village Board considers where to put the money By Tracy Ouellette Editor Although the final audit on the 2014 Village of East Troy budget is not complete, Village Clerk-Treasurer Eileen Suhm informed the Village Board in a memo that there was about a $260,000 surplus in the general fund from […]

Delavan

Meth lab discovered in Darien

Residents arrested, face felony charges Police busted a meth lab and arrested its suspected operators in Darien on Tuesday morning. Deputies from the Walworth County Drug Enforcement Unit and officers from the City of Delavan Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration and Division of Criminal Investigation executed a search […]

Obituaries

TODD A. SCHLENDER

Todd Alan Schlender, 55, of Mukwonago and Fort Myers, Fla., passed away unexpectedly March 6, 2015. He was born on May 30, 1959 in Milwaukee, to Frederick “Gus” W. and Violet L. (Rohde) Schlender. Todd attended New Berlin Eisenhower High School and graduated from East Troy High School in 1977. […]