School District to offer Family Connections sessions By Tracy Ouellette Editor The East Troy Community School District pupil services team will host several Family Connections sessions to offer parents/caregivers information and resources on a variety of mental health issues facing students. Mental health is a hot-button issue throughout the world, […]
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Two dead in Spring Prairie crash
Sheriff’s Department releases names of victims The Walworth County Sheriff’s Office has released the names of the two people killed in the Jan. 23 car crash on Highway 120 just south of Highway 11 in the Town of Spring Prairie. They are Elizabeth Wolfson, 51, of Shorewood, and Volodymyr Khlopetskyy, […]
East Troy students test above state average
DPI releases ACT, Badger test scores By Tracy Ouellette Editor For the first time, every high school junior in the state was required to take the ACT test in the 2014-15 school year. According to a press release from the state Department of Public Instruction, last spring, 65,065 public high […]
Water rates to go up
PSC recommends a two-year hike in rate By Tracy Ouellette Editor The East Troy Village Board members accepted the Public Service Commission’s recommendation to increase water utility rates by 13 percent for the next two years by a reluctant 5-2 vote at Monday night’s meeting. In a memo to the […]
School Board election to have four candidates
By Tracy Ouellette Editor No one else filed candidacy papers during the extended deadline for the East Troy Community School District Board of Education, so the race for the three seats has four candidates, Administrator Chris Hibner said at Jan. 11 School Board meeting. On the ballot for the April […]
Milwaukee man gets 15 years for Town of Troy armed robbery
By Vicky Wedig Staff Writer A Milwaukee man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for an October 2014 robbery in the Town of Troy in which a man was beaten and a woman was shot in the leg. Drevon A. Grant, 20, pleaded guilty July 23 to armed robbery. […]
Man charged with having relationship with girl
By Vicky Wedig Staff Writer A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 19 for an East Troy man charged with having a relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Mark Schmidt, 19, was charged Dec. 21 in Walworth County Circuit Court with sexual exploitation of a child, a Class C felony offense, […]
Filing for School Board election extended
By Tracy Ouellette Editor The deadline for filing nomination papers for local municipalities for the Spring General Election was 5 p.m. Tuesday but in the East Troy Community School District, that deadline has been extended to 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8. There are three seats on the School Board […]
Fourth body recovered from Mill Lake
Search concluded, Mill Lake open to the public By Tracy Ouellette Editor The body of the fourth man who went missing in Mill Lake Sunday was recovered Friday afternoon, according to a press release from the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office. The release identified the final drowning victim as Patrick M. […]
Tensions rise over Country Estates positions
Lyons Town Board replaces sanitary district commissioner By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer The Town of Lyons Board considered replacing all three members of the Country Estates Sanitary District Commission Dec. 14, but ended up tabling two of the three replacements. The Town Board voted to replace Wayne Pestor – who […]
