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Operation Christmas Child boasts teamwork

Donations, volunteers results in 200 shoeboxes filled Delavan Christian School recently held its Operation Christmas Child shoebox packing party and according to organizers, it was a great success. One representative said they wished all of the parents could have seen how amazing the kids were. “Big kids were helping little […]

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To stock the shelves

Our Redeemer Lutheran Church With School collected items for the Harold Johnson Delavan Food Pantry in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. On the day after Thanksgiving, volunteers gathered the items from the church, loaded them up on a trailer and transported them to the food pantry. Among the helpers […]

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DDHS students honored by Rotary Club

Six Delavan-Darien High School students have been selected as the Delavan Rotary Club students for the first quarter of the 2019-20 school year. Those students are: Jarod Comas, son of Leigh and Augie Comas; Ryan Hoey, son of Tracy and Mike Hoey; Garbriela Montelongo, daughter of Linda Cortz and Israel […]

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Partners in (some fun) crime

Delavan area students got to spend time with local police officers and other volunteers Dec. 7 at Shop with a Cop, an event supported by several local businesses and groups in the community. Above; Jayceon Selph-Turner gets some shopping help from Leah Flitcroft and Lt. Josh Flitcroft at Fleet Farm. […]

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Mayor Mel will not seek re-election

It’ll be the end of an era in the City of Delavan By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent After 18 years as mayor of the City of Delavan and three years before that as an alderman, Mayor Mel Nieuwenhuis announced he will not seek re-election in April. Nieuwenhuis said he had […]

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Holiday lights

      At the tree lighting ceremony in Tower Park in Delavan, Mayor Mel Nieuwenhuis kicks things off once Santa arrived by fire truck. See more photos in the Dec. 12 Enterprise. (Dave Dresdow photo)