Fontana School District seeking answers to declining enrollment   By Todd Mishler Copy editor Open enrollment has eased the pain, but decreasing numbers of resident students has continued to pick at the scab that apparently won’t heal anytime soon for Fontana Joint 8 School District. Declining enrollments have forced officials […]

The Feb. 23 Times/Reporter includes the following: • Photos from local flooding as a result of warm temperatures early in the week • The Fontana Joint 8 School District seeks answers to declining enrollment • Coverage from the Geneva Lake Arts Foundation’s Winter Art Show at Pier 290 in Williams […]

The warm temperatures early this week caused flooding in several areas in Walworth as the large amounts of snow on the ground melted including on Howard Street (above) as a village truck makes its way through a high water area. (Penny Gruetzmacher photo)

Highlights of what’s in the Feb. 16 Times/Reporter include: • The new administrator/clerk-treasurer in the Village of Sharon brings new ideas to the table and has goals that include revitalizing the downtown while the former longtime clerk-treasurer shares her plans for retirement • A review of what’s on the ballot […]

Steve Henschel (from the left), Charley Henschel, 4, and her dad, Johnathan Henschel, all of Delavan, show off their smiles and dance moves at the 9th Annual Daddy/Daughter Dance at The Abbey Resort Feb. 2. The event was sponsored by Big Foot, Delavan and Elkhorn recreation departments. See more photos […]

At Day in the Bay, a Williams Bay Business Association event held Feb. 3, Kim Kozbiel, of Elkhorn, and Don and Karen Mielke, of Williams Bay, sample chili from area restaurants, sponsored by the Williams Bay Women’s Civic League. The day also included a book sale at Barrett Memorial Library […]

By Penny Gruetzmacher Correspondent The Big Foot High School Drama Club will present Mary Poppins at the high school Feb. 16-18. Mary Poppins is the story of the Banks family who live in a big house in London on Cherry Lane. Things are not going well for the family. The […]

• Read a preview about Big Foot High School Drama Club’s upcoming presentation of Mary Poppins • See coverage from the 9th Annual Daddy/Daughter Dance at The Abbey Resort, and the annual Day in the Bay event in Williams Bay • Learn about Forever Piers, which recently joined the Geneva […]

Pier 290 Restaurant and The Geneva Lake Arts Foundation will cosponsor a winter art fair at Pier 290’s inside event center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 10 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 11. The Art fair at the Pier will feature area artists displaying […]

Grace Gillingham, a Big Foot High School student, is among 22 Wisconsin high school seniors awarded the Western Golf Association’s Chick Evans Scholarship offered to golf caddies. Gillingham, of Delavan, is a caddie at Big Foot Country Club. The scholarship is a full, four-year housing and tuition scholarship through the […]