By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Whitewater’s former Sentry store building will have a new lease on life — but a grocery store is not part of the plans. On Monday, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Foundation’s request to lease the high profile, 51,000-square-foot building, […]

Whitewater PD joining National Night Out event Aug. 2 in Elkhorn The Whitewater Police Department, in conjunction with the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office, is hosting the annual National Night Out celebration on Tuesday, Aug. 2, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Walworth County Fair Grounds, located at 411 E […]

By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent       The Delavan Town Board issued a proclamation July 19 along with the City of Delavan and the Village of Darien recognizing law enforcement for the work they do to keep the communities safe. “It is recognition for our law enforcement officers during what has […]

      Mark Elworthy (center) the new Whitewater Unified School District Administrator, receives a warm welcome to the community and district by school board member Steve Ryan (left) and president Casey Judd (right) Monday night. After a meet-and-greet, Elworthy, in his update during the school board meeting offered “a […]

City officials said recruiting ‘a top priority’ for community By Dave Fidlin Correspondent The road toward finding a new full-service grocery store in Whitewater has been long and winding in the more than seven months since Terry Daniels closed his Sentry operation in the community. City officials were hoping to […]

The Bridges Library System and Waukesha County recently received the National Association of Counties 2016 Achievement Award. The award recognizes the Bridges Library System’s 2015 restructuring project involving the libraries in Waukesha and Jefferson counties, including Irvin L. Young Memorial Library in Whitewater. The project resulted in a new multi-county […]

      Area students take the stage for the Whitewater Unified School District’s Summer School Playhouse production of James and the Giant Peach, held at Whitewater High School July 7 through July 9. More than 60 student actors, technical crew junkies and backstage crew members put in long hours […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent On the heels of Whitewater’s 2-year-old zoning rewrite project, city officials are picking up their red pens and making a series of proposed revisions to an oft-discussed issue in the community: parking. Members of the Plan and Architectural Review Commission on July 11 hashed over a […]

      A hummingbird feeds on a Penstemon plant in the Kettle Moraine Forest near Whitewater recently. Hummingbirds can live for as long as 12 years and generally weigh less than 4 grams, the equivalent to one teaspoon of sugar. One of the main purposes of a hummingbird’s beak […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent As they do annually, staffers within the Whitewater Police Department have assembled a list of goals aimed at evolving and enhancing operations from one year to the next. Volunteerism and community engagement are among the goals on this year’s list. Police Chief Lisa Otterbacher discussed some […]