Complete news coverage of Walworth County from Southern Lakes Newspapers
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Prosecutor’s personal story illustrates heroin’s devastation By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Nick was your typical Racine County teenager. He played sports and got respectable grades in high school. During the summer he displayed a joyous, sometimes reckless, abandon as a member of the Browns Lake Aquaducks water ski show […]
Here are the basic facts about modern-day heroin and its effects on your body from the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s educational campaign, theflyeffect.com. WHAT IS HEROIN? Heroin (also called boy, white, cheeva, brown sugar, H, Juan and tar) is an illegal and highly addictive drug that can be smoked, sniffed […]
Ruth Emma Woltman Strubing, 97, of Delavan, died May 22, 2014, at Mercy Hospital in Janesville. She was born Sept. 13, 1916, in McHenry, Ill. to A. E. and Lucille Barbara (Gutzwiler) Nye, the youngest of three children. She attended nursing school at St. Theresa Hospital in Waukegan, Ill. She […]
Church takes Open and Affirming stance, ordains first gay minister By Vicky Wedig Editor The Delavan United Church of Christ will ordain its first openly gay minister May 31. Erik Koepnick, whose family has attended the UCC for about eight years, will be ordained the day before his 30th birthday. […]
By Jennifer Cesarz Correspondent It was a clean sweep for the Delavan-Darien High School boys baseball team as it went 3-0 last week, beating Williams Bay in non-conference action, and taking two games from Lake Geneva Badger in Southern Lakes Conference action. May 5 the Comets (8-6, 4-4) hosted Williams […]
Newspapers launch in-depth series on the devastating effect heroin is having in the area From unsuspecting high school students seeking a new buzz at a party, to middle-aged men and women recovering from painful surgery, heroin has become a vortex from which few who try the drug are able to […]
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Lake Geneva Badger softball team started last week strong but could not keep up the momentum. The Badgers (5-9, 3-6 Southern Lakes Conference) started the week with an 8-3 win over Kenosha Indian Trail (5-5) on May 5 and defeated Wilmot (9-8, 3-6 SLC) […]
By Jennifer Cesarz Correspondent The Delavan-Darien High School girls soccer team has the top spot in the Southern Lakes Conference early in the season after knocking off Elkhorn, Waterford and Westosha Central. The Comets (9-3, 3-0) beat Waterford 1-0 on April 29 and then beat Elkhorn in a 1-0 overtime […]
Public defender argues witnesses provided only hearsay, no testimony that crime occurred By Vicky Wedig Editor A Delavan man was bound over for trial Wednesday in the stabbing death of his cousin. Rafael Olivarez, 39, of Delavan, appeared at a preliminary hearing in Walworth County Circuit Court in custody represented […]
The St. Andrew Parish School’s spring fair took place Thursday and Friday, May 8 and 9. The dates of the fair were incorrect in the May 8 edition of the Delavan Enterprise.
