Palmyra has road closure By Ryan Spoehr SLN STAFF Heavy rain throughout Monday and into Tuesday in Jefferson and Walworth counties left many areas underwater, but the City of Whitewater seemingly didn’t get hit too badly with flooding. “We are in pretty good shape,” said Brad Marquardt, the city’s public […]
Month: February 2018
Time to get the kids registered for kindergarten
East Troy School District to have registration at Little Prairie The East Troy Community School District is offering pre-registration for 4-year-old and new 5-year-old kindergarten students for the 2018-19 school year. Children who turn 4 or 5, on or before Sept. 1, are eligible to attend pre-registration from 3:15 to […]
Let the playoffs begin
By Dan Truttschel Sports correspondent Bring on the second season. That’s the new goal for the Big Foot girls basketball team, which is set to begin WIAA Division 3 regional play tonight. The Chiefs, who drew the regional’s top seed, take a 17-5 overall record into a 7 p.m. semifinal […]
In this week’s Times/Reporter…
The Feb. 23 Times/Reporter includes the following: • Photos from local flooding as a result of warm temperatures early in the week • The Fontana Joint 8 School District seeks answers to declining enrollment • Coverage from the Geneva Lake Arts Foundation’s Winter Art Show at Pier 290 in Williams […]
Area roads flooded early this week
The warm temperatures early this week caused flooding in several areas in Walworth as the large amounts of snow on the ground melted including on Howard Street (above) as a village truck makes its way through a high water area. (Penny Gruetzmacher photo)
In this week’s Independent…
Features in the Feb. 22 Elkhorn Independent include: • The city gets the ball rolling on moving to a full-time fire department, a process expected to take a couple of years with a tentative plan to move to referendum in 2020; • Elkhorn Area High School is hosting a series […]
Whippets split 2 leading into playoffs
Playoffs start Friday night By Troy Sparks CORRESPONDENT Now that the regular season is over, the Whitewater girls’ basketball team can focus on the postseason. Before the regular season came to a close though, the Whippets split their last two Rock Valley Conference regular season games last week and ended […]
Wrestlers DuVal, Gamble to compete at state
By Troy Sparks SLN CORRESPONDENT Jimmy DuVal will make a trip to the state wrestling tournament for the second straight year and senior Tyler Gamble will join him. The tournament will take place at the Kohl Center in Madison Feb. 22 through 24. DuVal punched his ticket in the 189-pound […]
In this week’s Whitewater Register …
– A UW-Whitewater student, now Walworth County Fairest of the Fair, promotes 4-H in her old 3rd grade classroom – Warhawk women sit atop WIAC – Fairhaven Lecture Series continues with focus on Native American culture – 2 Whippet wrestlers to compete at state – 2 area musicians perform in […]
School Board postpones decision on Chester Byrnes
By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff The East Troy Community Schools Board of Education delayed its decision the fate of Chester Byrnes building until Monday. The board has been in discussion on three separate offers to purchase the building for months and had planned on making a decision at Monday night’s […]
