Warhawk football coaches, players join effort to help local brain injury survivor University of Wisconsin-Whitewater head football coach Kevin Bullis and retired head coach Bob Berezowitz are scheduled to join a postgame reception and fundraiser for local brain injury survivor Thomas Hapka after the Warhawks’ football game against UW-Oshkosh on […]

      The Greater Whitewater Committee’s Discover Whitewater Series hosted a half-marathon and 5K, plus a W3 Fit Kid Shuffle, on Sept. 23. Local runners display their talents in the 5K event, which Whitewater Unified School District Administrator Mark Elworthy (No. 1105) helps kick off. He finished second. Whitewater residents John […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Housing — a hot topic of conversation throughout Whitewater for much of this year — was revisited briefly at a recent city meeting as officials continue to weigh the prospect of a neighborhood preservation plan. Al Stanek, who sits on the city’s Community Development Authority, went […]

     UW-Whitewater students tried to set a Guinness world record for longest glow stick Sept. 7 at Perkins Stadium as part of the university’s sesquicentennial celebration. It measured 152.5 meters, but the school won’t get verification if it’s a record for some time. The “breaking” of the glow stick took […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Two of Whitewater’s six tax-incremental financing districts could sunset by 2021, according to a financial analysis. The status of each of the city’s TIF districts was discussed Aug. 29 at a Joint Review Board meeting, which is held annually to satisfy a state statute. Several local […]

The fourth annual Golf Fore! Kids fundraiser was held Aug. 19. Don McComb, center, accepts one of the day’s three Friend of Whitewater Kids awards from Lakeview Elementary Principal David Brokopp and Whitewater Unified School District Administrator Mark Elworthy. (Tom Ganser photo)

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Whitewater Unified School District officials have launched an informational website and set in motion a series of meetings for the $12.8 million operational referendum that will be on residents’ ballot boxes in November. The WWUSD School Board at a special meeting Aug. 13 voted to hold […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Whitewater’s Community Development Authority, a quasi-independent governing agency operating autonomously of the Common Council, could face changes in one of its two loan programs aimed at bolstering economic development. Dave Carlson, executive director of the CDA, discussed possible changes to the federally funded community development block […]

Georgia Kestol-Bauer performs on the 1880s era pump organ made by the Estey Company at Heart Prairie Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church. Her grandparents were among three dozen Norwegians who settled in the area in 1851 and Kestol-Bauer is now leading the restoration of the church. Read the feature story in […]

Members of area Trout Unlimited chapters created a fun day of fishing and giving back to military heroes on Aug. 15 during the Veterans on the Fly event at Rushing Waters Fisheries near Palmyra. Army veteran Aaron Richards, above left, holds a trout he caught with the help of Southeast […]