By Tracy Ouellette Editor At Monday night’s East Troy Community Schools Board of Education meeting, School Board President Ted Zess read a prepared statement to clarify who asked for what in regard to the proposed rifles and safes in the district’s school buildings. The issue came to light when the […]
Author: Tracy Ouellette
Guns in the schools?
Police Department asks for funding to put rifles in school buildings By Tracy Ouellette Editor The East Troy Community School District has requested the Village of East Troy Police Department keep rifles in the district’s schools. In a memo dated July 23, Village of East Police Chief Alan Boyes requested […]
MYLES L. KATZENBERGER
Myles “Bud” Katzenberger, 73 of Clinton, died Aug. 20, 2014, at Mercy Hospital, Janesville. He was born March 17, 1941, to the late Walter and Nora Lucille (Edmonds) Katzenberger. Employed in several careers, Bud most enjoyed the years spent as a farmer in the area. He was a veteran, serving […]
NANCY N. NORRIS
Nancy Neal Norris, 85, died Aug. 12, 2014, of brain cancer. Survivors include her children, William N., (Kathleen O Neill), Neal R. (Teriann), and Beth E. (James Kutschenreuter); grandchildren, Mathew Curran, Robert (Alicia), William, Liam, Joseph Kutschenreuter, George Kutschenreuter, and Charles Kutschenreuter; great-grandchildren, Noah Curran, Jordan Curran, and Bodi Curran. […]
DORIS MCGRAW
Doris McGraw, 82, died Aug. 22, 2014, at Fairhaven Senior Services, Whitewater, after a long illness. Doris was born in Janesville, on Nov. 29, 1931, to Paul and Helen (Goede) Knudson. She attended St. Paul’s Lutheran Parochial School for eight years. She graduated from Janesville High School with the Class […]
‘Autumn on the Farms’ at Old World Wisconsin
Guests can help with 19th- and early 20th-century harvest and seasonal activities Old World Wisconsin’s farmsteads will be bustling with 19th- and early 20th-century harvest activities during “Autumn on the Farms,” Thursdays through Sundays, Sept. 4 through Oct. 31. Guests can help farmers with many seasonal tasks as they bring […]
Trojans open season against Delavan-Darien Friday
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent There is no escaping the fact that a lot of offensive production left the East Troy football program with the graduation of quarterback Brandon Matz and wide receiver Sam Eckert. That is a fact that can’t be disputed, as Matz threw for more than 2,300 yards […]
Airport improvements on the way
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Runway enhancements and an expansion of several hanger areas are among the improvements eyed in a long-range planning document for the East Troy Municipal Airport. The Village Board on Aug. 4 adopted a resolution that sets in motion a tentative six-year capital improvement plan for the […]
Burnt out?
Community support for referendum at question By Tracy Ouellette Editor Monday night’s meeting of the East Troy Board of Education exposed the sharp divide among the board members and possibly the community about what is the best path to take in regard to the district’s facility needs. Although the board […]
RITA L. SCHRAEDER
God has another angel in heaven since Rita Louise Schraeder, 88, died Aug. 16, 2014. She will be greatly missed by her devoted husband of 66 years, Lawrence Schraeder, and the family she loved so very much. After their wedding on Oct. 11, 1947, they lived on a farm in […]
