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Sunday, January 19, 2025
News from the East Troy area
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Local teen spends free time volunteering with veterans By Tracy Ouellette Editor Fifteen-year-old Jessica Ullberg, of East Troy, has been volunteering at Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee for about two years, since the moment she was old enough to do so. “My mom works there and I heard about […]
