Chiefs to take on Evansville in regional semifinal By Dan Truttschel Correspondent If there ever was a good time for the Big Foot boys basketball team to put things together, it was Tuesday night. That’s just what the Chiefs did, and they extended their season in the process. Big Foot […]
Author: Tracy Ouellette
Chiefs lose in heartbreaking regional final
Girls finish season 16-8 overall By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Last year at this time, the Brodhead girls basketball team was on its way to a state runner-up finish in Division 3. Whether the Cardinals are headed in that direction again will play itself out in the next two weeks, but […]
Wrestlers fall at state competition
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Two Big Foot athletes at different points in their wrestling careers ended their seasons last weekend. But for both sophomore Travis Berryman and senior Will Utesch, the final results at the WIAA Division 2 State Tournament at the Kohl Center, Madison, weren’t the main story. The […]
Big Foot to host district solo and ensemble festival
Big Foot High School will play host to the Wisconsin School Music Association sanctioned District Solo & Ensemble Music Festival hosted Saturday, March 14. During the festival, which is free and open to the public, students will perform vocal and instrumental solos, duets, trios and small ensembles before an adjudicator. […]
ROBERT F. GUNN
Robert “Bob” Frank Gunn, 91, died Feb. 28, 2015, at his home. Loving husband of Virginia for 63 years; devoted father of Barbara Gunn, Bob (Nancy) Gunn; proud grandpa of Jeremy Gunn, Aubrie (Angelo) Rivera, and Nicholas Gunn; special great-grandpa of Giovanni and Vincenzo Rivera. He will be sadly missed […]
Lake Beulah Dam project information meeting is March 12
The Walworth County Public Works Department will hold a public information meeting on the planned Lake Beulah Dam Construction Project from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, at the Town of Troy Town Hall, N8870 Briggs St., East Troy. The meeting will follow an informal, open house […]
County looks at possibilities for Sharon’s Peter’s Road bridge
By Kellen Olshefski Editor The Walworth County Public Works Committee discussed the possibility of finding funding for the Town of Sharon’s Peter’s Road Bridge. The bridge was closed last summer after being deemed unsafe for vehiclular traffic by the county. Walworth County Director of Central Services Kevin Brunner said at […]
Plants OK’d for downtown beautification project
Plants to cost about $3,800, to be ordered from Pesche’s By Kellen Olshefski Editor The City of Elkhorn Finance and Judicial Committee approved the purchase of the potting soil and plants needed to kick-off the city’s downtown beautification project this spring at its meeting Monday night. The total cost to […]
All present and accounted for
School Board appoints replacement board member By Tracy Ouellette Editor The East Troy School Board voted Monday night to appoint former board president Brian Wexler to the open board seat left vacant when Chris Smith resigned in January. The vote wasn’t easy with the board deadlocked 2-2 through two secret-ballot […]
A show of excellence
Middle School students participate in district solo and ensemble festival More than 90 seventh- and eighth-grade East Troy Middle School band and choir students participated in more than 125 events at the Wisconsin School of Music Associations District Solo Ensemble Festival at Whitewater Middle School Feb. 21. Kinsten Rought brought […]
