Complete news coverage of Walworth County from Southern Lakes Newspapers
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Four candidates will face off April 2 for two East Troy Community School District Board of Education seats. Incumbents Brian Wexler and Dawn Buchholtz and newcomers Ted Zess and Charles Harwood will vie for the two positions. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes will serve a three-year […]
By Vanessa Lenz SLN Staff City of Whitewater voters will decide on April 2 whether they think corporations – nonprofits and for-profit enterprises – should have the same rights as individual people. The Whitewater Common Council advanced the measure to the spring ballot following a local petition campaign by the […]
Libraries throughout Walworth, Rock and Jefferson counties will kick off southeastern Wisconsin’s fifth annual Big Read literacy project next week. Wisconsin native Thornton Wilder is the focus of the “Our Voices, Our Town” Big Read event. Led by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Young Auditorium and 12 area libraries, the Big […]
By Vanessa Lenz SLN Staff A Village of East Troy trustee will try to unseat the longtime village president in the April 2 election. Incumbent trustee Randy Timms, a Village Board member since 2004 and plan commission member since 2001, is challenging Bill Loesch, who has been on the board […]
Average retail gasoline prices in Wisconsin have fallen 0.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.68 per gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 3,112 gas outlets in Wisconsin. This compares with the national average that has fallen 1.9 cents per gallon in the last week […]
By Dan Truttschel CORRESPONDENT On paper, it certainly appears that the Big Foot-Williams Bay girls soccer team will be quite different than the team it put on the field a year ago. Any team that loses the number of talented seniors to graduation would say the same thing. But in […]
By Bob Peryea CORRESPONDENT The Village of Sharon has a great new website to keep residents and visitors informed of Sharon happenings: www.villageofsharon.com. On the new website, residents can find the village calendar of events, election information and form and permits to make doing business with the village easier. Under […]
By Chris Bennett CORRESPONDENT Brandon Ambrose’s time as a swimmer in academia isn’t over just yet. On Friday, Ambrose signed a Letter of Intent to swim for West Virginia Institute of Technology in Montgomery, West Virginia. WVU Tech is the largest regional campus of West Virginia University, which is located […]
By Bob Peryea CORRESPONDENT Hoss Rehberg, a local business owner, is seeking election to be the Alderman for District 1. Rehberg is a write-in candidate. Rehberg, who has lived in Elkhorn for 10 years, is the owner of Hoss Rehberg Farmers’ Insurance located at N5876 Hwy 12. “I want to […]
By John Koski SLN STAFF It’s come a long way in less than three months. In early January, construction workers were battling the elements to enclose Mercy Elkhorn Medical Center. Two weeks earlier, a company official said an early summer 2013 opening was anticipated. But thanks to the hard work […]
