Complete news coverage of Walworth County from Southern Lakes Newspapers
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Two teenage hikers found the body of a 70-year-old man on private property in a marsh area off County Highway H in the Town of Geneva at about 4:15 p.m. Sunday. The body was identified as James Louis Demeuse, who was reported missing and endangered in the Town […]
Arlene May (Finster) Hessler, 97, of Delavan, passed away April 2, 2018, at her home in Delavan. She was born in Delavan, Feb. 8, 1921, to Henry R. and Margaret “Gretchen” (Duesterbeck) Finster. She graduated from Delavan High School in 1939 and worked in various secretarial and management […]
By Ryan Spoehr SLN STAFF A portion of U.S. Highway 12 north of Whitewater is scheduled to be closed to through traffic starting next week to accommodate construction on the roadway. Construction will start Thursday, April 12, just north of the Walworth County line in southeastern Jefferson County. The project […]
By Ryan Spoehr SLN STAFF The phrase “fake news” is thrown around often in present time, particularly by a sitting U.S. president, and social media has become the target of foreign powers circulating information based on few, if any, facts. A University of Wisconsin-Whitewater communications professor took the floor recently […]
By Ryan Spoehr SLN STAFF Students at Washington Elementary and international students attending the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater recently took time out of their days to meet, chat and tell stories of each other’s cultures. On March 15, Washington Elementary students participated in a field trip to meet with UW-Whitewater international […]
In the April 5 edition of the Whitewater Register, news coverage includes … – The passing of a former UWW chancellor – Whitewater’s election results – The decision to have a civil engineer analyze the High School’s athletic grounds – The presentation by a university professor advocating for media literacy […]
By Ryan Spoehr SLN STAFF Whitewater at-large Alderperson James Allen held onto his seat in Tuesday’s election, fending off contender Brienne Diebolt Brown, according to unofficial results posted by Walworth and Jefferson counties. It was a tightly contested race on both sides of the county line. Allen received 588 votes […]
As Delavan-area voters head to the polls Tuesday, they’ll be asked to vote on a referendum that would allow the Delavan-Darien School District to exceed state revenue caps. The referendum contains two parts – it asks to exceed the revenue cap by $3.5 million for three years and $3 […]
By Dave Fidlin CORRESPONDENT After encountering a serious, high-priority situation, Whitewater Unified School District officials have agreed to bring into the fold a consultant to analyze Whitewater Middle School’s roof. “We’ve had some not-so-pretty issues,” Matthew Sylvester-Knudtson, director of business services, said at a School Board meeting March 19. During […]
Softball team hoping for young leadership By Daniel Schoettler CORRESPONDENT After a first-round playoff exit last season, Whitewater Whippets baseball is looking to go one step further in 2018. “We got a lot of guys returning and we are young,” head coach Jim Pease said. “I think the loss of […]
