By Tom Ganser Correspondent  The spring Fairhaven Lecture Series at Fairhaven Senior Services in Whitewater explores historic and contemporary stories, issues and customs from the country’s indigenous peoples. The series is entitled “Native America: People and Places, Past and Present.” Collin Price, a 2006 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater […]

  Fairest a UW-Whitewater Student By Ryan Spoehr SLN staff Support, family and a path to a career are all things that Avonlea Odling says were given to her in her 11 years in 4-H. Odling, now the Walworth County Fairest of the Fair, has visited local schools telling students […]

Palmyra has road closure By Ryan Spoehr SLN STAFF Heavy rain throughout Monday and into Tuesday in Jefferson and Walworth counties left many areas underwater, but the City of Whitewater seemingly didn’t get hit too badly with flooding. “We are in pretty good shape,” said Brad Marquardt, the city’s public […]

Also hear speech from Rotarian about experience at Chevrolet By Tom Ganser SLN correspondent In a trio of recent meetings, members of the Whitewater Rotary Club rode aboard a virtual time machine from the early 1950s to the near future. On Jan. 23, former Whitewater Rotary Club member Paul Hulick […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent A Whitewater city panel is in the midst of reviewing traffic counts in the hopes of using the data as a tool toward bolstering economic development throughout the community. The Community Development Authority on Jan. 25 combed through the information they have on hand, which, in […]

By Dave Fidlin SLN Correspondent What is Whitewater? This was a question members of the city’s Community Development Authority grappled with recently during a discussion of branding and marketing Whitewater’s amenities and virtues. CDA chairman Laurence Kachel discussed past — and, in his desire, future — efforts to market all […]