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Saturday, April 27, 2024
News from the East Troy area
Alpine Valley Resort celebrated its 50th birthday this weekend with fireworks, reduced price lift tickets and other activities. The ski resort boasts more than 90 skiable acres and 20 runs, the longest at 3,000. Set in the Sugar Creek Valley in Elkhorn, the resort offers hills for beginners through experts […]
By Tracy Ouellette Editor The East Troy Community Schools Board of Eduction approved the 2015-16 calendar at the Dec. 8 meeting. School will begin before Labor Day next year on Sept. 1, with the holiday break running Sept. 4-7. School District Business Manger Kathy Zwirgzdas said when polled, 90 percent […]
A 58-year-old Madison man is dead after his car swerved off the road and hit a tree Friday afternoon. According to a press release from the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office, Marc R. Semrow was westbound on Highway 12 at about 3 p.m. on Dec. 19 when the 2014 Nissan he […]
St. Paul’s Lutheran School fifth and sixth graders from Miriam Holm’s class took a walking field trip to the East Troy historic village square in September. The class referenced “Memories Around the Square,” an East Troy Area Historical Society publication, as they viewed each building. Several businesses invited the class […]
Village Board approves Cycling Classic for June 19 By Tracy Ouellette Editor The East Troy Village Board approved Monday night the East Troy Area Chamber of Commerce’s request to hold the annual Cycling Class bike race on the village square June 19. The East Troy Cycling Classic is part of […]
By Tracy Ouellette Editor Although icy conditions were a problem in some areas on Thursday, the weather and road conditions don’t appear to be a factor in the semi vs. car crash on Highway 20 in the Town of Troy yesterday morning. “The report says the semi driver was driving […]
By Vicky Wedig Staff Writer An East Troy man is expected to waive his preliminary hearing and enter a plea to a charge of burglarizing his mother’s Woodview Court home. Mikhall M. White, 18, was charged Dec. 2 in Walworth County Circuit Court with burglary of a building or dwelling […]
By Tracy Ouellette Editor Monday night’s meeting of the East Troy Community School District Board of Education had the board back to the regular business of leading education in the community. There was discussion by the board after some corrections were made to the minutes from the Dec. 2 special […]
By Tracy Ouellette Editor Community members showed up in force Dec. 2 for the East Troy Community School District Board of Education special meeting regarding the referendum the district is hoping to put forth next year to address the facility needs in its buildings. Residents came prepared with suggestions, plans […]
