The scenic beauty of Geneva Lake received more protection recently when the Geneva Lake Conservancy completed conservation easements with two property owners on the lake’s north shore. The conservation easements, combined, protect 7 acres of environmentally sensitive land. The conservation easements are on properties that have remnant oak forests and […]
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Common Council appoints new clerk
Cairie Virrueta will take over as county’s Register of Deeds By Kellen Olshefski Correspondent The City of Elkhorn Common Council voted unanimously in favor of accepting City Clerk Cairie Virrueta’s resignation Monday night. Virrueta has been appointed to the position of Walworth County Register of Deeds. The council also voted […]
Feeding the children
Schools provide meal service while closed By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff With Gov. Tony Evers ordering all public and private schools to close last week, many children, locally and statewide, are at risk of not getting enough to eat. The East Troy Community School District is helping with that. The […]
Helping Hands of St. Peter’s here to help
The coronavirus pandemic has left many people struggling to make ends meet because of unemployment and other factors. East Troy families that need a “helping hand” paying for rent, power bills, food, water, or gas, can call Helping Hands of St. Peter’s at 262-642-7225, ext 2. Callers can leave a […]
UPDATE: Sixth case of COVID-19 confirmed in county
Today, the Walworth County Division of Public Health announced the sixth laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Walworth County. The newly confirmed individual is a woman in her 70s. The woman is receiving treatment and will be monitored by Public Health. It is not yet known how she contracted the […]
Managing finances in tough times
Guidelines offered in response to current pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has us all thinking about how to adapt to guidelines to keep our loved ones and ourselves healthy and safe. Added to this stress is the uncertainly about economic conditions and how this may affect our personal finances. “Most of […]
Shopping for a cause
The Delavan Lions Club, with a little help from some fast shoppers, collected more than 300 lbs. of food and nearly $1,680 worth of food via the second Grocery Games event, held last week at Stinebrink’s Piggly Wiggly in Delavan. Above: Lions Club members and participants gather before the […]
Moving forward
Construction on Milwaukee Street, which will be closed to thru traffic from Rice Street to the roundabout, began on March 9. This was the scene March 10 at the Milwaukee-Rice intersection. The contractor will be finishing the sanitary sewer and storm sewer work in this section. After the underground […]
Carnival worker gets 115 years
He was convicted of hitting woman with hammer, rape A Mississippi man was sentenced Feb. 24 to 115½ years in prison for raping and attacking a woman with a hammer in Elkhorn before the 2018 Walworth County Fair. In addition to the prison term, Terrence D. Leflore, 25, of Jackson, […]
West Chamber guide updates due soon
The deadline for members’ changes, additions is March 27 The local chamber of commerce is in the final stages of updating and gathering information from its members for the 2020-2021 Geneva Lake West Resource Guide. “Now is the time to update your directory information… If there are any changes… whether […]
