The Stateline area features teachers, volunteers and organizations working hard to improve the financial literacy of people within local communities – after all, it is just good sound advice to understand money management, budgeting, saving, credit, and goal setting. First National Bank and Trust wants to reward a 2018 Financial […]
Author: Heather Ruenz
Former Elkhorn man to appear in case of assaulting daughter
A status conference is scheduled for May 1 for an Indiana man charged with sexually assaulting his daughter in Walworth County when she was 9 to 11 years old. The man, 35, of Crawfordsville, Ind., was charged Dec. 28 in Walworth County Circuit Court with first-degree sexual assault, having contact […]
Williams Bay students take in the big city
Williams Bay band, choir kids spend break in New York By Nate Weirick Contributor Over Spring Break, the Williams Bay High School band and choir took a trip New York City. We left in coach buses on March 30 and returned home on April 5. During our time on the […]
Elkhorn Art Fest fun
Elkhorn Art Fest, held April 12 at Matheson Memorial Library, featured the artwork of Elkhorn area elementary school students and local artists. On hand were art teachers (above, from the left) Erin Heiser, Tibbets Elementary School, Danielle Dunham, Westside, and Carrie Storlie, Jackson and Brett Gaertner (right), of Milwaukee, provides […]
No deal reached in case of assault of 4-year-old
A status conference was scheduled for April 16 for a Sharon teenager charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl for whom his mother baby-sat. At a status conference March 21, the parties announced no plea offer had been tendered between the state and Nicholas M. Trzebny, 17. Trzebny is charged […]
April is STD Awareness Month
Walworth County Public Health gives free condoms for prevention April is sexually transmitted disease awareness month, and statistics show STDs are on the rise across the country, according to a press release from Walworth County Public Health. Nearly 20 million new STD cases occur in the United States every year […]
EAHS sport shorts
Elks baseball opens with split By Chris Bennett Sports correspondent The Elks took the lead in the bottom of the sixth and beat Westosha Central 7-6 April 10 in a Southern Lakes Conference high school baseball game at Elkhorn. Central returned the favor and beat the Elks 5-4 in walk-of […]
Beekeeper to present program at Lion’s Field House
Beekeeper Kristine Karlson, of Elkhorn, will present a program about honeybees at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 at the Lion’s Field House in Williams Bay. For as long as Karlson can remember, she has loved honeybees. She said as a young girl, she hummed and danced along with the foraging […]
‘Tis the season?
Siblings (from the left) Jacob Mountford, Kate Flitcroft and Cole Flitcroft, and the family’s dog, Max, stand in front of the giant snowman they built April 15 in front of their home in Sugar Creek, outside of Elkhorn. The project, which was Kate’s idea according to their mom, took three […]
Returning to the spotlight
Hundreds support Sharon Community School musical The Sharon Community School’s production of School House Rocks Live Jr. was a huge success, according to school officials. The school has not done a musical in many years so this was the first attempt in some time. In total, 23 actors and a […]
