Fontana music teachers retire after touching the lives of students over the years By Anne Trautner Assistant Editor Mark Wenzel had just finished a difficult day of teaching music when he received a letter from a former student telling him how much of a difference he had made in that […]

By Anne Trautner Assistant Editor        When Scott Corbin was a freshman at Big Foot High School 15 years ago, he performed in the school’s talent show.       He was supposed to play as part of a rock band, but the other freshmen band members backed out at […]

  By Anne Trautner Assistant Editor The Walworth Joint School District 1 School Board is reaching up to those in high places for help as it seeks to squelch the latest plan to redirect Highway 14. The Walworth Village Board has been working with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for […]

By Anne Trautner Assistant Editor Three small children played in the foyer of the Walworth Municipal Building on April 14, their voices carrying over into the room where the village board was meeting. Safety for those children, as well as all Walworth children, was the main topic of Monday’s meeting. […]

Teachers asked to develop interventions for struggling students as part of school-wide goal to improve scores   By Anne Trautner Assistant Editor Students at Sharon Community School and Walworth Joint School District 1 fell behind the state average in reading, but scored above the state average in social studies on […]

  Unofficial election results for the 2014 April 1 election are now posted on the Walworth County website. For more extensive coverage of the spring election, see this week’s editions of the Walworth/Fontana/Williams Bay Times and Sharon Reporter. Election results for the Village of Sharon races are as follows: President […]

Travis Frederick returns home for jersey retirement and to visit with area students By Kellen Olshefski Editor Sharon native and starting center for the Dallas Cowboys Travis Frederick returned home last weekend not only for the retirement of his number by Big Foot High School, but also for a surprise […]

By Anne Trautner Assistant Editor The Walworth Village Board continues spending money as it goes forward with creating a second branch of the municipal court, a decision the board made on Jan. 13, even though the new court may run pretrial negotiations in the same manner as the current branch. […]

By Anne Trautner Assistant Editor At its meeting Monday night, the Fontana Village Board approved the village human resources study recommendations that call for hiring a village administrator, a part-time village treasurer and fulltime public works director. In order to iron out final contract details and prepare any necessary ordinance […]