By Dan Truttschel Correspondent The East Troy boys basketball team put the finishing touches on a solid regular season last week with three more victories. And now the Trojans can turn their attention to what they hope is a deep postseason run. East Troy clinched its fifth straight Rock Valley […]
Sports & Other News
Musician’s everlasting love lives on through song
By Vanessa Lenz SLN Staff When doctors gave Pat Peterson a grim prognosis in December, he made a decision to spend his final days with his three loves – his wife Ruth, 10-year-old daughter Jazmine and music. For the past 20 years, the 40-year-old lifelong Whitewater resident has performed throughout […]
Council OKs purchase of new squad car
By John Koski SLN Staff The Elkhorn Common Council voted Monday to replace an unmarked 2003 Crown Victoria squad car with 82,547 miles on its odometer. The department’s two detectives are the primary users of the vehicle. Police Chief Joel Christensen noted that during a preventive maintenance inspection of the […]
Man sentenced for THC manufacturing, wife’s trial to come later
Marijuana-growing operation ‘got out of control’ defendant allegedly told police By Kellen Olshefski SLN Staff An Elkhorn resident has been sentenced in a marijuana growing operation busted last August and his wife is set to appear for a status conference on March 15. Christopher Hass, 34 of Elkhorn, has […]
Badgers return to State tourney
“Our goal was to get seven through to State and we came up short but not from lack of effort.” ~Coach Shane Koehl By Michael S. Hoey CORRESPONDENT The Lake Geneva Badger wrestlers will make a second consecutive trip to the Team State Meet on March 1-2 at the Kohl […]
Badgers sweep Union Grove
By Michael S. Hoey CORRESPONDENT The Lake Geneva Badger boys and girls basketball teams swept Union Grove in a double header last Friday at Union Grove. The Badger boys defeated the Broncos 45-43. Badger (8-14, 3-11 Southern Lakes Conference) jumped out to an early 19-6 lead after one quarter and […]
Girls lose two conference games
Comets’ lead scorer is out with injury By Jennifer Cesarz CORRESPONDENT Playing without leading scorer Kylie Collins, who is out with an injury, the Delavan-Darien High School girls’ basketball team dropped two Southern Lakes Conference games last week. The Comets lost to Burlington 50-24 and Wilmot 62-42. Despite the losses, […]
Boys end season with win
Comets beat Westosha Central 49-48 after 65-45 loss to Burlington “We allowed their big men too much space in the second quarter. Once we collapsed the zone and tightened up our interior defense, we were able to hold their two big guys to four points in the second half.” – […]
Chiefs question impetus of studying shared services
Town officials say board is ‘fact finding;’ no plans are proposed By Michael S. Hoey CORRESPONDENT The Town of Delavan has no plans to have the city take over its police department, town officials said last week. The town has begun talks with the City of Delavan about possible ways […]
Darien OKs funds for Village Hall planning
However, one trustee wonders how village will pay for project By Michael S. Hoey CORRESPONDENT The Darien Village Board on Monday approved a resolution to cover the initial engineering and financial planning costs for a new village hall and police department building. The village has been planning to tear down […]
