Sydney Racky (from the left), of Walworth, and a 2013 graduate of Big Foot High School, paints a pumpkin with Ed and Sue Schweitzer at Fairhaven Senior Services, Whitewater, Oct. 19. The decorating party featured the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women’s volleyball players teaming up with Fairhaven in preparation for Halloween. […]

Big Foot Jazz Band students perform with the band The Hornheads, an “extraordinarily talented” group of horn players, according to school officials, visited Big Foot High School Oct. 14, through the Big Foot Fine Arts Concert series. Additionally, the Big Foot High School Jazz Band had the opportunity to have […]

Senior photo editor of the 2017 Big Foot High School yearbook Grace Gillingham (far left) and senior copy editor Aly Flynn, accept a first place award at the Kettle Moraine Press Association’s fall conference Oct. 13 at UW-Whitewater. Yearbook advisor Chad Roehl took the BFHS yearbook staff of nine to […]

The Lakeland Audubon Society will meet Tuesday, Oct. 24 for a meeting about the history and ecology of Horicon Marsh. Formed by the glaciers of the last Ice Age, Horicon Marsh was a hunting ground for Native Americans for more than 10,000 years. However, in the past 150 years, this […]

Big Foot High School seniors Isabel Kinerk and Alexander Laing are among 16,000 semifinalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corp. recently announced the names the semifinalists in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to […]

The Historical Society of Walworth and Big Foot Prairie will feature businessman Robert Rauland at its fall meeting at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26. The program will be on the History of the Rauland and Cooper Families and the Rauland Agency, Inc. Robert Rauland has been a resident of Walworth […]

The Christian Arts Centre of Chapel on the Hill Community Church will present the youth production “Honk! Jr.” Oct. 20, 21 and 22. “Honk! Jr.” is a musical by Anthony Drew and George Stiles and is a musical adaptation of the classic tale, “The Ugly Duckling.” The production is directed […]

After a two-year hiatus, painter Martha Hayden will open her home and studio in Sharon for an exhibition, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 21 and 22, from noon to 5 p.m. Located at 143 Prairie St., the home is a historic Victorian built in the 1870s. Visitors will be allowed to […]

Geneva Lake West Chamber members and guests enjoy an afternoon of networking, lunch and views of the lake aboard Lake Geneva Cruise Line’s Lady of the Lake, including the chamber’s newer members, from the left: Nancy Waspi, of Santa Cause, Inc.; Stephen Robson and Dan Coyle, both of Harvard State […]

Pearce’s Farm Stand, Walworth, hosted its 3rd Annual Classic Car and Tractor Show Oct. 1. The event featured live music by P.F. and the Flatheads, a concession stand offering hot cider, apple cider donuts, brats and hot dogs, hayrides to the pumpkin patch, climbing and jumping bales (above) and a […]