Funds raised benefit home for girls in Haiti By Penny Gruetzmacher Correspondent The 2018 Avery Step You Take 5K walk and run and 1.5-mile walk and run took place June 15 at Delavan Christian School. One-hundred participants ran or walked in the event, which included a display table with posters […]

By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent A failed attempt to pass a referendum April 3 for operating expenses and to upgrade facilities at the high school has cost the Delavan-Darien School District another administrator. The resignation of director of special education and pupil services Sara Halberg was announced on June 11. […]

Village looks to reclaim building, research opening own district By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Delavan-Darien School Board voted to close Darien Elementary School at a special meeting April 23 as a consequence of the failure of a referendum April 3. That action has caused the Village of Darien to […]

Officials detail fall-out of failed referendum By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent Delavan-Darien School District officials outlined the affects of the failure to get a referendum passed on April 3 and the need to pass a referendum in November. Superintendent Robert Crist said accurate accounting ahead of the April election might […]

By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent Darien Village Board President Kurt Zipp addressed the Delavan-Darien School Board on Monday night and expressed his community’s disappointment in the district’s recent decision to close Darien Elementary School at the end of the school year. The district voted to close the school in response […]

Merger with Dane County club gives Walworth County organization more resources By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Boys and Girls Club of Walworth County plans to expand the services it offers to the Delavan area this summer and next fall. A new summer program will offer programming to Delavan children […]

   Two of four men charged in connection with a cocaine-selling ring in Delavan and Darien appeared in court late last month. Jose A. Galarza Jr., 29, of Delavan, appeared in court April 27 free on bond with his attorney Frank Lettenberger. He is charged with manufacturing or delivering cocaine, […]

      Bobby Betzer (right) of Betzer Funeral Home and Rita Yadon (left), of Arbor Vista Nursery, present a tri-color beech tree to Mary Kay Merwin, moderator at United Church of Christ Congregational, along with dog, Timmer. (Submitted photo)

Voters in the Delavan-Darien School District said no Tuesday to a referendum that would have allowed the Delavan-Darien School District to exceed state revenue caps. The district asked to exceed the revenue cap by $3.5 million for three years and $3 million thereafter. In other area election results: City of […]