By Dave Fidlin Correspondent As it continues its evolution, the Whitewater Community Television organization is hoping to enhance citizen engagement with a new program this spring. Alan Luckett, community TV and media services manager with the operation, came before the Common Council on March 1 and discussed the organization’s latest […]
Author: Heather Perkins
For the birds
Artists, sponsors sought for public arts project Birds will soar from downtown lamp poles this summer as the next generation of the Whitewater Arts Alliance Public Arts Project lands in downtown Whitewater and artists and sponsors are needed. After 10 years of public art on the lamp poles the organizers […]
Meth lab busted in Genoa City
A meth lab was discovered and two people arrested on Highway H in Genoa City on Sunday. While conducting an investigation Sunday, the Walworth County Drug Enforcement Unit and Genoa City Police Department discovered a methamphetamine manufacturing operation in apartments 202 and 204 at 1201 Highway H. […]
VERA MORTON
Vera Morton passed away Jan. 22, 2016, at Congregational Home in Brookfield. She was the much-loved mother of her six children: John (Willow), Carl (Elaine), Jane (Tyke), Tom, Suzanne (Tony) and Tim (Cindy); grandmother to seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her […]
RONALD G. RITSEMA
Ronald Gerald Ritsema, 86, of Whitewater, passed away peacefully March 12, 2016, in Fort Atkinson. He was born June 27, 1929, at home in rural Whitewater. He was the sixth child of seven born to Andrew Ritsema and Rosa Marie Fredericka (Heyse) Ritsema. He began his education in a one-room […]
Officials wade through wastewater plant details
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent While there is certainty Whitewater will receive a new wastewater treatment facility in the near future, questions about some of the components within the project continue to permeate. After a year marked with study, debate and analysis, the Common Council capped off 2015 with a plan […]
SALLY MICK JOHNSON
Sally Mick Johnson, 89, died Jan. 20, 2016, in Oconto, surrounded by her family after a short illness. She was born in Waukesha on Oct. 21, 1926, to Richard and Francis Smelter. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and received a master’s degree in speech pathology from the University […]
AGNES PANKA
Agnes Panka, 91, of Delavan died March 11, 2016, at her home in Delavan. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday, at St. Benedict’s Catholic Church in Fontana. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the time of the service on Wednesday at the church. Monroe Funeral Home in […]
A witty comedy and a savage tale coming to Whitewater
Young Auditorium is on American Shakespeare Center’s 2016 Dangerous Dreams tour and will present two stage performances of classic, entertaining tales this week. Oscar Wilde’s witty, biting comedy The Importance of Being Earnest will take the stage on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m.; Shakespeare’s The Life of King Henry […]
Stepping up
Members of the Trinity Irish Dancers group from Madison entertain a full house at Fairhaven Senior Services Monday, including young dancers in the early stages of learning the traditional Irish dance to teenagers with years of experience. It was reported the community room at Fairhaven was at […]
