Volunteers Ken Stair (left) and Tom Dace recently work on installing siding at the new Agape House for Boys in Walworth. Another volunteer workday will take place Saturday, Sept. 1. Read the story in this week’s Southern Lakes Newspapers publications. For more information, call 262-275-6466, visit agapehouseheals.org or email [email protected]. […]
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This week in the East Troy News….
The Walworth County Fair opened for its six-day run Wednesday. Read about a couple of local families with strong ties to the fair. Also in this week’s edition, the lack of adequate school funding is plaguing many area schools. In sports, the Trojan football team picked up another win and […]
Elkhorn Police investigating alleged sexual assault
Elkhorn Police are investigating what appears to be a sexual assault that occurred in the city Tuesday night. Police are searching for the suspect and the vehicle he may have been driving. Officers were dispatched to the area of East Geneva and South Lincoln streets at about 10:15 p.m., Aug. 28 […]
‘Grandma Cookie’ takes to the skies
Lois Demars, 87, checks skydiving off her bucket list By Bridget Bartal Staff Writer Lois Demars, affectionately known by the Sharon community as ‘Grandma Cookie’ went skydiving earlier this summer at Skydive the Rock in Beloit. She is 87 years old. She said skydiving had been on her bucket list […]
Riding Roun’da Manure
Roun’da Manure Bicycle Tour, a one-day bike tour that offers routes of 17, 22 or 44 miles through area fields and towns, sponsored by Historical Downtown Sharon, was held Aug. 18. Chuck Gruetzmacher (from the left), Walworth, Meg Harris, Cary, Ill., Rick Perry, Lake in the Hills, Ill., and […]
Veterans on the Fly
Members of area Trout Unlimited chapters created a fun day of fishing and giving back to military heroes on Aug. 15 during the Veterans on the Fly event at Rushing Waters Fisheries near Palmyra. Army veteran Aaron Richards, above left, holds a trout he caught with the help of Southeast […]
Man to be tried in two cases of porn, showing genitals
Pretrial conferences are scheduled for December and January for a Lake Geneva man charged with pornography and exposing his genitals to a child in two different cases. Carlin C. Pillman, 34, was charged in 2014 with three counts of possession of child pornography. He was charged in December in a […]
Old World Foundation awarded grant
It will boost children’s activities at Autumn on the Farms Recognizing the need for funding to support interactive children’s activities for the Autumn on the Farms weekends at Old World Wisconsin in Eagle, Target Corp. awarded a $1,000 grant through Old World Foundation. Old World Wisconsin Director Dan Freas said […]
Separate trials set for couple charged in friend’s overdose death
Final pretrial conferences are scheduled for a Whitewater couple charged with homicide in the overdose death of their friend about a year ago. Jeremy David Meyer, 36, and Kori L. Kincaid, 40, were charged Oct. 13 in Walworth County Circuit Court with first-degree reckless homicide and possession of drug paraphernalia, […]
Sentencing again delayed for woman charged in meth cook at hotel
By Vicky Wedig SLN staff A sentencing hearing was again delayed for a Lake Geneva woman who was burned while allegedly cooking methamphetamine. Melissa E. Kuen, 37, appeared in court April 27 to be sentenced on a conviction of manufacturing or delivering methamphetamine. The sentencing was delayed until June 29 […]
