District named winner in America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education Students at Badger High School will soon be learning production agriculture year-round, and the crops they produce in the classroom will be served up on the lunch trays of their fellow students. Thanks to the support of local farmers and America’s […]
Sports & Other News
The Cove Hotel’s financial woes continue
By Bob Peryea Correspondent The saga of the receivership and the whereabouts of over $1 million at the Cove in Lake Geneva continue as the parties are headed back to court on Nov. 14. Last month, PNC Bank sued in court to have a receiver assigned to the hotel to […]
Officials optimistic for deer hunt
Growing herd, relaxed rules should increase opportunities By Ed Nadolski Editor in chief Area residents will join hundreds of thousands of other hunters throughout the state in pursuit of white-tailed deer as Wisconsin’s annual nine-day gun season opens Saturday. State wildlife officials are offering an opportunistic forecast for the season […]
Elkhorn School Board OKs changes to sex ed program
By Maureen Vander Sanden SLN staff After Gov. Scott Walker signed his bill into law last spring that requires schools teach sex education by stressing abstinence as the only reliable way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, officials from Elkhorn Area School District got to work to update its […]
Local WWII vets travel to D.C. on the Honor Flight
By Alexandrea Dahlstrom SLN Staff As Gerry Pelishek and Otto Probst stood in front of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. Nov. 3, they contemplated the immensity of such a memorial for their World War II comrades. “If they were to name all the American soldiers who were lost in […]
Delavan keeps alderman
City councilman defeated in bid for state Assembly By Vicky Wedig SLN Staff The City of Delavan did not lose an alderman to the state Assembly in Tuesday’s General Election. Alderman Ryan Schroeder lost his bid for the 31st Assembly District to Republican Amy Loudenbeck, of Clinton, who was elected […]
Darien student banned from bus walks home
By Michael S. Hoey Correspondent A Darien Elementary School second-grader was picked up by a passing motorist and taken home when he began a 12-mile trek home after not being allowed on the school bus Thursday. Jeremy Talaczynski, 7, was suspended from riding the bus from Oct. 31 through Friday […]
Old theater, Showette more than milkshakes and movies
“It was the end of an era. It was a wonderful little theater, and the Finins were wonderful people who worked hard.” – Jeanie O’Dierno McReynolds Rarely has a piece of wood signified as much as it did at the Thursday, Oct. 25 meeting of the Historical Society of […]
Elkhorn Fund gives local non-profits a boost
By Maureen Vander Sanden Editor Five local organizations were awarded grants last week from the Elkhorn Fund totaling $10,000 to help continue their missions of bettering the community. Dozens of civic-minded community leaders gathered Nov. 2 at the Elkhorn Chamber of Commerce as organizations including Blessings in a Backpack, […]
WHS Players prepare to get ‘All Shook Up’
The Whitewater High School Players will bring a 1950’s jukebox musical to town, using songs made popular by Elvis Presley and William Shakespeare’s plotlines about accepting differences. Based on the book written by Joe Dipietro, the story is based on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” The show follows a guitar-playing roustabout who […]
