Annual event kicks off holiday season with style The East Troy Electric Railroad’s Santa Parade Train will make its annual journey into downtown East Troy on Saturday. There will be plenty of additional holiday activity at East Troy Village Square Park, 2881 Main St., from 5:30 to 8 p.m., including […]

By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff A Glendale man appeared in court Monday afternoon on charges stemming from an October 2014 robbery in the Town of Troy where a woman was shot and a man beaten. Michael Kraft, 35, is facing felony charges of armed robbery, first-degree reckless injury, substantial battery […]

A status conference is scheduled for Jan. 5 for an East Troy man who pleaded not guilty Oct. 31 to holding up a Subway restaurant in Whitewater at knifepoint. Gregory La Mar Brackinridge, 52, was charged Oct. 10 in Walworth County Circuit Court with armed robbery. According to the criminal […]

East Troy School leading the way with individualized learning By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff Classrooms are not what they were 30 years ago. In an ever-changing world of interactive technology, kids need to learn at a different level than their parents and grandparents did. They also need to learn different […]

By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff East Troy Community School District Administrator Chris Hibner announced there will be one seat on the School Board up for election in 2017. The seat is held by Steve Lambrechts. The spring election will be April 4, 2017. Should more than two candidates run for […]

Middle School band students to perform in Honors Bands Nine students from the East Troy Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade bands were selected to participate in the 50th annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Honors Band Festival on Sunday. Julie Chase, clarinet; Kiley Komperud, clarinet; Taylor Olejniczak, alto sax; Maggie Donegan, tenor […]

Kindergartners from East Troy’s Doubek Elementary School meet with a Walworth County Sheriff’s deputy this morning to give him the treat bags the students assembled for local law enforcement and firefighters. The kids also went on a field trip to the Village of East Troy Police Department, East Troy Fire […]

Families have until Nov. 15 to sign up for program By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff The holidays will be here before anyone knows it and Holiday Help of East Troy organizers are urging families in need to get their applications in as soon as possible. “We only have about 30 […]

Two other men to be tried early next year in connection with crime By Vicky Wedig SLN Staff A Glendale man is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 21 on four felony charges in connection with an October 2014 robbery in the Town of Troy in which a man was […]

Ride Christmas Express Trains to Santa’s Workshop at the Elegant Farmer The East Troy Railroad Museum’s 2016 Christmas Express Trains are set for their magical round-trip from the East Troy depot to Santa’s Workshop at The Elegant Farmer in Mukwonago. Children can visit with Santa, enjoy cookies and hot chocolate, […]