Sports & Other News

East Troy area

Hard times for soccer

Team looks to get back on track By Dan Truttschel Sports Correspondent The road has gotten a bit rough lately for the East Troy boys soccer team. Visiting Big Foot-Williams Bay scored just three minutes into the game Monday night and never looked back in a 6-0 Rock Valley Conference […]

East Troy area

Can’t stop the bleeding

Run defense struggles in loss to P-E By Dan Truttschel Sports Correspondent There are times in every coach’s career that a defeat really isn’t all that stunning – sometimes the opposition is just better on that given day. For East Troy football coach Eric Sulik, however, last week was not […]

Delavan

Scarecrow Fest set for Saturday

Submissions yet to be unveiled; volunteers still needed By Cam Cronkite Staff Writer The 13th annual scarecrow fest will take place Saturday in downtown Delavan. Organizers say the community-oriented, family event gives residents a chance to get together, be creative and take pride in their historic community, and most importantly, […]

East Troy

School Board accepts preliminary budget

The East Troy Board of Education unanimously voted in favor of accepting the 2013-14 preliminary budget at its meeting Monday night. According to Katherine Zwirgzdas, East Troy Community School District business manager, at the end of the 2012-13 fiscal year, totals for fund balance came out to $3,127,576, or about […]

Elkhorn News

Mercy to hold open house

Mercy Health System will hold a public open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, September 14 at its new Mercy Elkhorn Medical Center, 839 N. Washington St., Elkhorn. The event features refreshments and free activities for kids and adults. Activities include behind-the-scenes tours of the new clinic, a […]

Whitewater

Library to host author Katherine Perreth

Author Katherine Perreth will be speaking at the Irvin L. Young Memorial Library at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19. Perreth’s book, “Making Lemonade With Ben: The Audacity to Cope,” was a finalist in the Reader’s Favorite International Book Award contest winning the Silver Award for 2013 in the Non-fiction […]

Elkhorn News

City officials mull ‘child safety zone’

By Kellen Olshefski Staff Writer A proposed City of Elkhorn ordinance intends to make it more difficult for convicted sex offenders to live in the Elkhorn area. For nearly a year, Elkhorn’s Legislation and Regulatory Committee has been working on a sexual offender residency restriction ordinance which would control how […]