Deputies revived a man suffering from an opiate overdose in the Town of LaGrange on March 3. Three doses of naloxone, commonly known by its brand name, Narcan, were administered to a 26-year-old man at a Bluff Road residence, according to a press release from the Walworth County Sheriff’s Department […]
Author: Heather Perkins
City to share cost of library landscaping
By Kellen Olshefski Correspondent The City of Elkhorn Finance and Judicial Committee voted in favor of recommending the city split the cost of a landscaping project at Matheson Memorial Library with the library and the library Friends at its Feb. 27 meeting. The committee’s decision to split the cost came […]
Big Foot teacher awarded grant
Pat Hollihan, a teacher at Big Foot High School, has received a 2017 Accounting Career Awareness Grant from the Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants Educational Foundation, Inc. Teachers who attended the fall 2016 WICPA High School Educators Symposium received the opportunity to write proposals about why they should receive […]
Girls at Agape House vote for best pizza
Four Walworth County pizza restaurants donated four pizzas each to provide dinner for the girls and staff at Agape House in Walworth on Saturday, and the girls got to choose which place served the best pizza in Walworth County. In a blind taste test, the girls chose Nayeli’s in Walworth, […]
Students will ‘moose’ Mr. K
Principal retires after more than 42 years at Lakeland School By Vicky Wedig Staff Writer Mr. K has left the building. After 42 ½ years at Lakeland School in Elkhorn, Greg Kostechka, of Delavan, retired Friday. Students celebrated Mr. K’s re“tie”rement with an assembly in the gym riddled with puns […]
Former library assistant hired as director
Experienced Williams Bay librarian takes over leadership position By Ryan Spoehr Staff Writer A longtime, local library employee has been hired as director for Powers Memorial Library in Palmyra. Laura Gest started as the library’s new director was Feb. 17. She took over after Angie Zimmermann left to take […]
Deer Advisory Council to meet March 14
The Walworth County Deer Advisory Council will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, at People’s Bank of Elkhorn, 837 N. Wisconsin St., Elkhorn. The council will discuss preliminary antlerless quota recommendations, permit levels and season structure options for the 2017 deer hunting season. The public is encouraged to […]
Palmyra Town Board accepts land
Special meeting held to ‘expedite the process’ By Ryan Spoehr Editor The Palmyra Town Board held a special meeting late last week to accept a land donation from Carol Calkins, the widow of former Town Chairman Stewart Calkins. Accepting the land could create further expansion of the Palmyra Municipal Airport […]
THOMAS LEITZKE
Thomas Leitzke, 77, formerly of Delavan, died Feb. 25, 2017, in Zephyrhills, Fla. Monroe Funeral Home in Delavan is assisting the family.
SYLVIA CUNNINGHAM
Sylvia (Garza) Cunningham, 52, of Delavan, died March 11, 2017, at Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville. Funeral services will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at Monroe Funeral Home, 604 E. Walworth Ave in Delavan. Visitation will be from 1 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
