By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff With the state budget and school funding still up in the air, the East Troy School Board voted on July 17 to hire an additional fourth-grade teacher for Prairie View Elementary School for the 2017-18 school year. The position had been part of the budget […]
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Village Board approves purchase, training for naloxone use by police
By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff The East Troy Village Board approved Police Chief Alan Boyes’ request to equip the village’s squad cars with Narcan at the July 17 meeting. The chief, who said he had previously been against having the drug, which is used to reverse the effects of opioid […]
JOHN VOGEL
John “Miester John” Vogel, 79, died July 23, 2017. He was born on Aug. 17, 1937, in Yugoslavia to Valentine and Theresa Vogel. Prior to moving to the United States in 1957, his formal education was in Austria were he learned to be a master sausage maker. In 1974, he […]
URBAN C. PIEPER JR.
Urban C. Pieper Jr., 80, died July 22, 2017, in Waukesha, surrounded by family He was born on Jan. 30, 1937 in Milwaukee, the oldest of three children born to the late Urban Sr. and Irene Pieper. He was further preceded in death by his wife, Joanne. He will be […]
Legion baseball team ends season at regionals
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Mother Nature certainly wreaked havoc on the area last week – and that chaos extended to the summer baseball schedule. East Troy’s Post 188 16U legion squad saw its summer season come to an end with two losses in the regional tournament last week. Post 188 […]
East Troy recovers from flooding
Highway 120 remains closed at the dam By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff “We know now what the dam can take and the dam can take a lot,” Village of East Troy Public Works Director Jason Equitz told the Village Board members at Monday night’s meeting. Equitz updated the board on […]
Balloonfest set to soar
Annual festival returns to Waterford tonight Waterford’s seventh annual Balloonfest will take flight July 21 to 23, behind Evergreen Elementary School, 817 W. Main St. The free, family friendly festival hosts more than 20 hot air balloons that participate in competitions and launches in the morning and early evening, along […]
High school to participate in statewide trauma project
By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff East Troy High School will take part in the Trauma Sensitive Schools Project this coming school year. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction initiative will provide professional development and technical assistance to the high school at no cost to the district East Troy Schools Director […]
Plan Commission recommends pavilion at Playmore Park
By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff The Village of East Troy Plan Commission is recommending the Village Board approve plans to construct a pavilion at Playmore Park after Monday night’s meeting. Public Works Director Jason Equitz presented the plans for the pavilion on behalf of the Parks and Recreation Department. The […]
Legion baseball team wraps up regular season
Regional action began this week By Dan Truttschel Correspondent The East Troy Post 188 16U legion baseball team took a step up in competition to close out the regular season July 8. And it’s clear East Troy proved it belonged. Post 188 split a pair of games with 18U foe […]
