School District trims $800,000 from next year’s budget By Tracy Ouellette Editor With a projected shortfall of $484,000 in the 2015-16 East Troy School District budget and the loss of the $258,000 in state funding for the district in the governor’s proposed budget, the School Board approved a series of […]
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St. John’s to erect new steeple
Steeple to be raised in memory of Kelly Amon By Kellen Olshefski Editor A generation after the original was destroyed by a tornado, St. John’s Lutheran Church in downtown Elkhorn is raising a new steeple on Thursday, May 14, the latest of many recent improvements made to a structure that […]
Historical society dinner focuses on Ingalls heritage
By Fred Noer Contributor The historical significance of the name Ingalls in American literature and in the Walworth area was emphasized April 23 during the Historical Society of Walworth and Big Foot Prairie’s annual dinner at Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan. Although much attention was placed on “Little House on […]
Building the new school
Low interest rates will save taxpayers money By Tracy Ouellette Editor There was some good news out of the April 27 meeting of the East Troy School Board. With interest rates as low as they are and that trend expected to continue in the foreseeable future, the taxpayers in the […]
New plan hopes to help retain electric employees
Plan to include pay increases for current electric employees and a payback clause to retain new employees By Kellen Olshefski Editor Elkhorn’s Human Resources Committee took a look at a plan Monday night Elkhorn’s electric utility hopes will help to retain employees in the future. Electric and Water Utility Director […]
Local Operation Click chapter ‘setting the trend’
Williams Bay student wins car By Tom Ganser Correspondent More than 80 high school students, parents, teachers, school administrators and area law enforcement personnel gathered together at Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan April 24 for the annual Walworth County Operation Click banquet. Near the end of it, Andrew Olson from […]
Work continues on Beulah Dam
Crack and damage surveys to be mailed to homeowners Construction is in full swing on the Lake Beulah Dam project with sheet piling being driven in anticipation of constructing a diversion channel for the spillway flow and removing the old spillway structure. According to a press release from the Walworth […]
Dontaions sought for memorial bench
Bench to honor late Walworth schools District Administrator The Pam Knorr Memorial Committee is seeking donations to help fund an outdoor memorial bench and commemorative plaque in honor of the late Walworth Joint School District 1 Administrator Pam Knorr. Knorr served as the district’s administrator, which encompasses Walworth middle and […]
East Troy man charged in heroin death of woman, 23
By Vicky Wedig Staff Writer A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 8 for a man charged with homicide in connection with the heroin overdose death of a woman in his Town of East Troy home. Carl A. Evrard, 36, of East Troy, was charged April 16 with first-degree reckless […]
County complex will gain urban streetscape
Work on Highway NN among capital improvement projects planned By Vicky Wedig Staff Writer The look of the roadway in front of the Walworth County government buildings will change from a country road to an urban streetscape this summer. County Highway NN is scheduled for reconstruction this summer from Borg […]
