Shared 100th birthday worthy of a special celebration By Penny Gruetzmacher Correspondent Florence Proctor and Emma Baehr celebrated their 100th birthdays on March 16, at Golden Years in Walworth and were treated to a special celebration in honor of their big day. The birthday celebration at Golden Years featured cake, […]

Wayne Rohde, an expert birder and past board member of the Lakeland Audubon Society, will present a program next week on warblers and other spring migratory birds. Rohde’s focus will be on wood warblers, how to find and identify them, by sight and by song. He will also share a […]

‘And Then There Were None’ student-run and directed By Penny Gruetzmacher Correspondent The Williams Bay High School Drama Club, which is student-run and student-directed, will bring the play “And Then There Were None” to the stage tonight and Saturday. The play, by Agatha Christie, is co-directed by Sophie Gumble, club […]

First National Bank and Trust recently announced that Paul Page has joined the company as a Mortgage Loan Originator serving the bank’s Walworth County market. Page comes to the bank with nearly 25 years of lending experience, most recently as a branch manager and loan officer for a local bank […]

      At the 10th Annual Chili Dinner fundraiser March 11 at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church in Walworth, Robert Rauland and Tobie Steivang check out a carved cane made by Don Shunk, of Sharon. The event, in addition to a buffet meal, featured live music and a variety of […]

Pat Hollihan, a teacher at Big Foot High School, has received a 2017 Accounting Career Awareness Grant from the Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants Educational Foundation, Inc. Teachers who attended the fall 2016 WICPA High School Educators Symposium received the opportunity to write proposals about why they should receive […]

Four Walworth County pizza restaurants donated four pizzas each to provide dinner for the girls and staff at Agape House in Walworth on Saturday, and the girls got to choose which place served the best pizza in Walworth County. In a blind taste test, the girls chose Nayeli’s in Walworth, […]

  Experienced Williams Bay librarian takes over leadership position By Ryan Spoehr Staff Writer A longtime, local library employee has been hired as director for Powers Memorial Library in Palmyra. Laura Gest started as the library’s new director was Feb. 17. She took over after Angie Zimmermann left to take […]

Walworth County USDA Farm Service Agency Executive Director Tom Oasen reminds producers to review available USDA crop risk protection options, including federal crop insurance and Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program coverage, before the spring-seeded crop deadline of March 15. Federal crop insurance covers crop losses from natural adversities such as […]

Big Foot Union FFA members were among the nearly 200 high school students who attended the Wisconsin Farm Bureau’s FFA Farm Forum in Wisconsin Rapids Feb. 17 and 18. “Wisconsin Farm Bureau takes pride in hosting this special event with the FFA to help develop our next generation of agriculture […]