The East Troy Community School District had its annual meeting Sept. 23 to a largely empty lecture hall at the high school. With only a handful of residents, aside from staff and board members, the district presented its proposed 2019-20 budget and set a preliminary tax levy increase of 3.3%. […]
Sports & Other News
Elkhorn runners post best times of season
By Chris Bennett Correspondent Drew Davey finished 15th and led the Elkhorn Area High School boys cross country team to a third-place finish Sept. 28 in the Pete Nielsen Laser Relays Sept. 22 at Naga-Waukee Park in Delafield. The Elkhorn girls finished fourth. Both squads competed in the small schools […]
Badger tennis brings home SLC title
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Lake Geneva Badger tennis team brought home a Southern Lakes Conference championship last week. The Badger dominated the semi-final round of the SLC Tournament on Sept. 26 wining every match. In singles action, Zaya Idersul defeated Cami Good of Union Grove (6-0, 6-0) and […]
Trojan tennis earns RVC title
Trojans host sectional next week By Dan Truttschel Correspondent The rest of the Rock Valley Conference has spent all season chasing the East Troy High School girls tennis team. And they still haven’t caught them. East Troy, which ran the table through the dual meet season, closed out its second […]
Relive the ‘War of the Worlds’
Off the Square Players open radio play, library fundraiser tonight By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff The Off the Square Players kick off their fall season with a presentation of the H.G. Wells thriller, “War of the Worlds, the Radio Broadcast,” tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Ivan’s Backstage on the East […]
Whippets volleyball struggling without Emme Bullis
By Troy Sparks Correspondent Without junior Emme Bullis, Whitewater’s best all-around player, the Whippets are doing all they can to make it to the home stretch of the regular season. Bullis has been missing from the starting lineup since rolling her ankle in a match at Big Foot on Sept. […]
Chiefs on a roll with third straight win
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Don’t look now, but the Big Foot football team is on the doorstep of a berth in the WIAA playoffs. The Chiefs overcame an early 7-0 deficit last Friday night to pull out a 34-21 Rock Valley Conference victory over visiting McFarland. Big Foot, which won […]
Comets coach proud of his team’s ‘fight’
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent The Delavan-Darien football team gave undefeated Burlington all they could handle for a half on Sept. 27, but fell 28-10 in a game that Coach Hank Johnson said was closer than the score indicated. “We never felt out of the game at any point,” Johnson […]
Walworth woman charged with prescription fraud
A Walworth woman is accused of stealing prescription credentials from a medical office and fraudulently obtaining painkillers on multiple occasions from a Burlington pharmacy. Amy N. Funderburk, 37, was charged last week in Racine County Circuit Court with four counts of misappropriation of identification information for financial gain, two counts […]
UW-Whitewater staffer fills School Board vacancy
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent A graduate of Whitewater High School and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has been chosen to keep a recently vacated seat on the Whitewater Unified School District’s School Board warm through next spring. The six sitting members of WUSD’s School Board selected lifelong Whitewater resident Miguel Aranda […]
