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Lake Geneva area

Managing finances in tough times

Guidelines offered in response to current pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has us all thinking about how to adapt to guidelines to keep our loved ones and ourselves healthy and safe. Added to this stress is the uncertainly about economic conditions and how this may affect our personal finances. “Most of […]

Delavan

Shopping for a cause

      The Delavan Lions Club, with a little help from some fast shoppers, collected more than 300 lbs. of food and nearly $1,680 worth of food via the second Grocery Games event, held last week at Stinebrink’s Piggly Wiggly in Delavan. Above: Lions Club members and participants gather before the […]

Whitewater

Moving forward

      Construction on Milwaukee Street, which will be closed to thru traffic from Rice Street to the roundabout, began on March 9. This was the scene March 10 at the Milwaukee-Rice intersection. The contractor will be finishing the sanitary sewer and storm sewer work in this section. After the underground […]

Elkhorn

Carnival worker gets 115 years

He was convicted of hitting woman with hammer, rape A Mississippi man was sentenced Feb. 24 to 115½ years in prison for raping and attacking a woman with a hammer in Elkhorn before the 2018 Walworth County Fair. In addition to the prison term, Terrence D. Leflore, 25, of Jackson, […]

Delavan

Red Cross seeks blood donors

Organizers also note the time change for Monday’s drive The Delavan Darien Red Cross will hold a blood drive Monday March 23, at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Delavan from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., which is a change in the time, according to organizers. Potential donors need a donor […]

Elkhorn

Virus upsets status quo

County monitors COVID-19 as life is drastically altered By Heather Ruenz Staff Writer The COVID-19 virus is now in Walworth County, according to Public Health officials who have announced three confirmed cases of the virus as of Friday. The first person who tested positive had reportedly recently traveled domestically, and […]

Elkhorn

Walworth County IDs case of community spread

Third person who tested positive for COVID-19 did not have exposure to a known case and didn’t travel to a location with known community spread Today, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced that community spread of COVID-19 has been detected in Wisconsin. Furthermore, the Walworth County Division of Public […]