By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff On Thursday, Live Nation announced it will not be opening Alpine Valley Music Theatre for the 2017 season. “It’s an unusual year in that a lot of artists we’ve traditionally hosted are playing in other buildings or not playing at all this season,” said Jon […]
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City to share cost of library landscaping
By Kellen Olshefski Correspondent The City of Elkhorn Finance and Judicial Committee voted in favor of recommending the city split the cost of a landscaping project at Matheson Memorial Library with the library and the library Friends at its Feb. 27 meeting. The committee’s decision to split the cost came […]
Big Foot teacher awarded grant
Pat Hollihan, a teacher at Big Foot High School, has received a 2017 Accounting Career Awareness Grant from the Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants Educational Foundation, Inc. Teachers who attended the fall 2016 WICPA High School Educators Symposium received the opportunity to write proposals about why they should receive […]
Girls at Agape House vote for best pizza
Four Walworth County pizza restaurants donated four pizzas each to provide dinner for the girls and staff at Agape House in Walworth on Saturday, and the girls got to choose which place served the best pizza in Walworth County. In a blind taste test, the girls chose Nayeli’s in Walworth, […]
Students will ‘moose’ Mr. K
Principal retires after more than 42 years at Lakeland School By Vicky Wedig Staff Writer Mr. K has left the building. After 42 ½ years at Lakeland School in Elkhorn, Greg Kostechka, of Delavan, retired Friday. Students celebrated Mr. K’s re“tie”rement with an assembly in the gym riddled with puns […]
Former library assistant hired as director
Experienced Williams Bay librarian takes over leadership position By Ryan Spoehr Staff Writer A longtime, local library employee has been hired as director for Powers Memorial Library in Palmyra. Laura Gest started as the library’s new director was Feb. 17. She took over after Angie Zimmermann left to take […]
Deer Advisory Council to meet March 14
The Walworth County Deer Advisory Council will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, at People’s Bank of Elkhorn, 837 N. Wisconsin St., Elkhorn. The council will discuss preliminary antlerless quota recommendations, permit levels and season structure options for the 2017 deer hunting season. The public is encouraged to […]
Palmyra Town Board accepts land
Special meeting held to ‘expedite the process’ By Ryan Spoehr Editor The Palmyra Town Board held a special meeting late last week to accept a land donation from Carol Calkins, the widow of former Town Chairman Stewart Calkins. Accepting the land could create further expansion of the Palmyra Municipal Airport […]
Round two
Village Board members debate insurance issue, again By Tracy Ouellette SLN Staff Several East Troy Village Board members took turns making verbal jabs at each other during the March 6 board meeting when they were discussing the insurance for the May 5 and 6 Sidewalk Chalk-Art Festival. With accusations of […]
County to consider 12-hour shifts at nursing home
By Vicky Wedig Staff Writer The Walworth County Board will consider March 14 whether to allow nurses at the county-run nursing home to work 12-hour shifts. The county’s Human Resources Committee and Lakeland Health Care Center Board of Trustees approved the ordinance change Feb. 22. County Human Resources Director Dale […]
