By Vicky Wedig SLN staff A motion hearing is scheduled for June 29 for a West Bend man charged with sexually assaulting his daughter when the girl was between 2 and 10 years old in the Town of LaFayette. The man, 46, who is not being named here to protect […]

Shey Zwieg’s first grade class from Jackson Elementary School plant flowers outside the Walworth County Government Center in Elkhorn June 1, including Kahleb Belling (from the left), Ian Juarez Cruz, Ayden Gonzalez and Owen Schopp. Colleen and Bob O’Neill of Little Miss Sweet Peas donated the flowers and organized the […]

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Walworth County will hold a team captain/member meeting for the annual event tonight at 6 p.m. in the Community Room at 820 Geneva St., Delavan. The theme for this year’s Relay For Life, set for July 21 from 5 p.m. to midnight […]

By Kellen Olshefski Correspondent The City of Elkhorn Common Council voted 5-1 in favor of amending the city’s code of ordinance in regards to the Board of Review at its meeting Monday night. The Board of Review has in the past been comprised of the mayor, city clerk and alderman, […]

Ex-cop convicted of murder in Kenosha County and Minnesota   By Jason Arndt and Vicky Wedig SLN staff A former West Allis police officer is scheduled to be tried in August for dumping the bodies in Walworth County of two women he killed. Steven Zelich, 55, is charged in Walworth […]

The Walworth County Alliance for Children will host its seventh annual “Chip in fore Kids” golf outing on Monday, June 12, at the Evergreen Golf Course in Elkhorn. The tournament will be a four-person scramble format. Tournament day check-in begins at 11:30 a.m. and tee time is at 1 p.m. […]

Phillip Meersman, a senior at Elkhorn Area High School, was recently named an AXA Achiever, for “demonstrating exemplary leadership skills and a commitment to making a positive contribution to the world,” a press release from AXA states. AXA, a financial protection and retirement industry leader, awarded scholarships to more than […]

By Vicky Wedig SLN staff A Janesville man was scheduled to appear in court May 30 on charges that he supplied the heroin that caused the overdose death of a man in Elkhorn. Jason A. Wedell, 34, pleaded not guilty Feb. 21 in Walworth County Circuit Court to first-degree reckless […]

From the top: members of VFW Post 6375, Elkhorn, lead the Memorial Day parade through downtown; Elkhorn Area High School choir members sing during the program at Veterans Park on the lawn of the Walworth County Government Center; VFW Post 6375 member Michael Morgan gives a speech.

EAHS teacher one of several to attend seminar Elkhorn Area High School was one of several area schools to have a Tech Ed teacher attend a Gateway Technical College seminar on Snap-on torque wrenches use training, and then receive wrenches as a donation. Carl Bjorge, of EAHS, participated in the […]