Amelia Valadez, 81, of Delavan passed away on Oct. 5, 2019, at home in Delavan. Funeral services will be held at 6 p.m. on Friday at Monroe Funeral Home in Delavan. Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. until the time of the service on Friday at the funeral home.
Author: Heather Perkins
Elkhorn runners post best times of season
By Chris Bennett Correspondent Drew Davey finished 15th and led the Elkhorn Area High School boys cross country team to a third-place finish Sept. 28 in the Pete Nielsen Laser Relays Sept. 22 at Naga-Waukee Park in Delafield. The Elkhorn girls finished fourth. Both squads competed in the small schools […]
Badger tennis brings home SLC title
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Lake Geneva Badger tennis team brought home a Southern Lakes Conference championship last week. The Badger dominated the semi-final round of the SLC Tournament on Sept. 26 wining every match. In singles action, Zaya Idersul defeated Cami Good of Union Grove (6-0, 6-0) and […]
Whippets volleyball struggling without Emme Bullis
By Troy Sparks Correspondent Without junior Emme Bullis, Whitewater’s best all-around player, the Whippets are doing all they can to make it to the home stretch of the regular season. Bullis has been missing from the starting lineup since rolling her ankle in a match at Big Foot on Sept. […]
Chiefs on a roll with third straight win
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Don’t look now, but the Big Foot football team is on the doorstep of a berth in the WIAA playoffs. The Chiefs overcame an early 7-0 deficit last Friday night to pull out a 34-21 Rock Valley Conference victory over visiting McFarland. Big Foot, which won […]
Comets coach proud of his team’s ‘fight’
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Delavan-Darien football team gave undefeated Burlington all they could handle for a half on Sept. 27, but fell 28-10 in a game that Coach Hank Johnson said was closer than the score indicated. “We never felt out of the game at any point,” Johnson […]
Walworth woman charged with prescription fraud
A Walworth woman is accused of stealing prescription credentials from a medical office and fraudulently obtaining painkillers on multiple occasions from a Burlington pharmacy. Amy N. Funderburk, 37, was charged last week in Racine County Circuit Court with four counts of misappropriation of identification information for financial gain, two counts […]
UW-Whitewater staffer fills School Board vacancy
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent A graduate of Whitewater High School and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has been chosen to keep a recently vacated seat on the Whitewater Unified School District’s School Board warm through next spring. The six sitting members of WUSD’s School Board selected lifelong Whitewater resident Miguel Aranda […]
Elkhorn traffic signal repair gets green light
By Kellen Olshefski Correspondent During a Committee of the Whole meeting last week, City of Elkhorn aldermen voted in favor of replacing the camera processor and cameras for the traffic signals at the intersection of North Wisconsin and West Market streets, which recently began to function improperly. Public Works Operations […]
Supporting the walk
Walworth County showed its support Sept. 21 when nearly 850 participants turned out to support the 13th annual Walk To End Alzheimer’s at Library Park in Lake Geneva. From the left; To kick things off, Honorary Walk Chair Jackson Akright addresses the crowd as chairs Emily Karls, Josh Spiegelhoff […]
