Highlights of the March 1 issue of the Elkhorn Independent include: • Players, coaches and parents of the Elks football team step up to help an 11-year-old boy from the area who was injured in a car crash • The Elkhorn Food Pantry keeps its shelves stocked thanks to donations […]
Sports & Other News
Youth art exhibit planned for March 4
Event to take place during annual Band-O-Rama East Troy Community School District artists in kindergarten through 12th grade will have their artwork on display at the annual Youth Art Month art exhibition, which is open to the public and set to take place in conjunction with Band-O-Rama at East Troy […]
Area man’s work mainstay at toy show
By Ryan Spoehr SLN STAFF The Whitewater FFA Alumni toy show has been a fixture in the community for a quarter of a century. And Richard Morgan has remained a constant through almost the entire duration, displaying his custom-made toy trucks. The Delavan resident was a 1994 graduate of Elkhorn […]
Girls battle to the end, wrap season on loss
Boys head into regional action tonight By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Playing short handed in a Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 3 regional opener last week wasn’t the best scenario for the East Troy High School girls basketball team. But the Trojans certainly battled to the end. East Troy trailed by […]
This week in the East Troy News….
Congratulations to East Troy High School sophomore Tommy Larson, who the individual wrestling state championship title in the 106-pound weight class at the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association state tournament. Also in this week’s edition, the East Troy Community School District Board of Education voted to tear down the Chester Byrnes […]
Having Olympic-style fun
Prairie View Elementary School fourth-graders Carli Murphy and Lillian Hejdak have fun in the Double Luge event Feb. 21 when the fourth-grade classes celebrated the Olympic Games with games of their own as part of the school district’s Global Literacy Initiative. The four classes, taught by David Murphy, Katie Powers, […]
See what the NASA HUNCH team has been up to this year
East Troy High School to host design review for program East Troy High School will host the Critical Design Review for the Wisconsin Schools that participate in the NASA HUNCH program from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 15. Multiple teams from Racine Case High School and Platteville […]
DuVal, Gamble compete at state
DuVal reaches podium By Troy Sparks CORRESPONDENT Whitewater senior Jimmy DuVal made his second consecutive appearance at the WIAA Division 2 Individual Wrestling Tournament, finishing his high school wrestling career in grand fashion and going out with a bang. DuVal reached the podium at the Kohl Center in Madison last […]
Williams Bay man allegedly ran from police
A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Feb. 23 for a Williams Bay man who allegedly had drugs and ran from police in Whitewater. Rolando Hernandez Jr., 24, was charged Feb. 16 in Walworth County Circuit Court with possession with intent to deliver cocaine and possession of marijuana, both second and […]
UWW women’s basketball team wins WIAC Tournament
The No. 12 ranked University of Wisconsin- Whitewater women’s basketball team defeated 23rd-ranked UW-Oshkosh Saturday afternoon, and earned the conference’s automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament for the second straight season. UW-Whitewater, which clinched its first-ever sweep of the WIAC regular season and tournament championships, will begin its […]