By Dave Fidlin Correspondent After a rocket-fueled launch, leaders of the Whitewater Innovation Center and Technology Park are hoping to take the development’s success to newer heights in the road ahead. Mark Johnson, director of the center, delivered a report on the three-year-old facility’s status at a Common Council meeting […]
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BRADLEY H. NELSON
Bradley Howard Nelson, of Tacoma, Wash., passed away Oct. 28, 2015. He was born in Chicago on Feb. 1, 1918, to Herbert and Beulah Nelson. He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, and received a degree in industrial engineering from Iowa State College. In 1941, he married […]
ROBERT C. RIEDL
Robert C. Riedl, 61, of Delavan Lake, died Oct. 31, 2015, at his residence. Monroe Funeral Home in Delavan is assisting the family.
New in the district
Whitewater welcomes 12 new teachers to the classroom By Tom Ganser Correspondent The Whitewater Unified School District began the 2015-16 school year by welcoming 12 new teachers. The new teachers were selected from more than 200 applicants, including 48 who were interviewed at least one time. WUSD Director of Instruction […]
SANDRA L. CZAPLICKI
Sandra L. Czaplicki, 57, of Whitewater, died Oct. 31, 2015. Services will be 6 p.m., Thursday, at Monroe Funeral Home in Delavan with visitation from 3 to 6 p.m. Monroe Funeral Home in Delavan is assisting the family.
ELLEN L. GRIES
Ellen L. Gries, 90, of Belvidere, Ill., passed away the afternoon of Oct. 28, 2015, at Northwoods Care Centre, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Aug. 5, 1925, to Amos and Libbie Callow. She married Harold A. Gries in 1946, in a Catholic ceremony in […]
BARBARA S. KNACK
Barbara Schulz Knack (nee Groth), 68, passed away Oct. 28, 2015. She was born in Maywood, Ill., June 30, 1947, to Ollie and Francis (Frantz) Groth. She was a longtime member at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary Post No. 15051. […]
U.S. Navy’s Commodores to present concert at Lake Geneva Middle School
The U.S. Navy’s Commodores will present a free concert at Lake Geneva Middle School at 3 p.m. Sunday. The Commodores, a specialty unit of the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., features 18 of the Navy’s top jazz and “big band” musicians. Since their founding in 1969, the Commodores […]
Committee created to plan new Community Park building
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Delavan Town Board appointed board Chairman Ryan Simons, supervisors Larry Malsch and Chris Marsicano and resident Mike Grover to an ad hoc Community Park Building committee on Oct. 20. Simons said he is still talking with a potential fifth candidate. Simons said the meetings […]
Working the budget
Proposed budget calls for 1.5 percent increase in tax levy By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Whitewater officials continue to comb through the proposed 2016 municipal budget of $9.77 million as the countdown to formal adoption draws closer. City Manager Cameron Clapper continued his line item-by-line item review of the budget Oct. 20, which […]
