Complete news coverage of Walworth County from Southern Lakes Newspapers
Thursday, November 21, 2024
News from the Delavan area
By Jennifer Cesarz Correspondent Gov. Scott Walker visited his hometown last week for the announcement that the Boys and Girls Club of Walworth County will be named after him. Walker and his wife, Tonette Walker, supporters of the Boys and Girls Clubs in Milwaukee and Madison, attended a breakfast Tuesday […]
By Vicky Wedig and Alexandrea Dahlstrom SLN Staff The last time Bridget McCarthy saw her daughter, she was singing – loudly — “jammin’ out” to the Jamie Grace song “God Girl” on the way to school. When McCarthy dropped the fifth-grader off at Delavan Christian School, Avery McCarthy told her […]
By Alexandrea Dahlstrom SLN Staff An Elkhorn woman who was hit by a car in Delavan three months ago returned home on Saturday. Shelly Mornard, 65, was crossing Borg Road on July 26 on her way to Kune’s Country Ford to pick up her car from work in the Shopko […]
Trick-or-treat times Trick-or-treat times in Delavan are: • Town of Delavan – noon to 3 p.m. Oct. 28; and • City of Delavan – 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 31.
By Michael S. Hoey CORRESPONDENT The former fire station at the Brad Liddle Safety Building in Delavan is haunted. At least that is what the Southern Lakes Association of the Deaf wants the public to think for three weekends in October. In two weeks, a five-person committee and volunteers transformed […]
By Michael S. Hoey CORRESPONDENT The Boys and Girls Club of Walworth County asked the Delavan-Darien School Board on Oct. 8 to consider allowing it to use space in district schools. School Board members were amenable to the request and plan to consider it formally in November or December. Board […]
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Delavan-Darien School Board approved a new raffle from the high school booster club on Monday night. The raffle is a calendar-based raffle and will replace the auctions the booster club has conducted in the past. Julie Supernaw represented the booster club and said […]
State Superintendent Tony Evers will was expected to visit the Wisconsin School for the Deaf on Monday for a groundbreaking ceremony to kick off construction of a new high school building. Construction was expected to start Monday and last 13 months. The new high school building will replace Walker Hall, […]
By Vicky Wedig SLN Staff A Delavan man appeared in court last week intending to waive a preliminary hearing in a sexual assault case against him but his attorney said he was not competent to do so Oct. 2. The man, 67, was found not competent July 13 […]
By Vicky Wedig SLN Staff The City of Delavan is ready to paint the town – literally –in 2015. The Walldogs – a group of artists who paint murals on buildings – plan to create 18 paintings in Delavan. For the past two decades, the Walldogs have created locally significant […]
