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Sunday, May 5, 2024
PHOTO BY Penny Gruetzmacher Gage Nicholson (left) and his brother, Riley Nicholson, both from Lake Geneva, enjoyed the main LEGO display. The LEGO pieces were more intricate than they used to be. The All-Star LEGO Show by the Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club, Kenosha LEGO Users Group & Chicago Area […]
By Bob Peryea CORRESPONDENT First Lady Tonette Walker visited Lake Geneva on Friday to present one of Walworth County’s most active fundraisers, Kevin Paluch, with the Wisconsin Heroes Award. Paluch is the Chief Operating Officer of Geneva National Golf Club and the founder of the Geneva National Foundation. Through the […]
Sally Johnson dies in home she had lived in her entire life By Bob Peryea Correspondent Fire tore through the Johnson family home Thursday night, Feb.7, at 83 Lackey Drive, Williams Bay. The fire, which reportedly started around 8:30 p.m., resulted in the death of Sally Johnson, 70. Her […]
Above the Brookwood Cheerleading Squad complete a rotating pyramid during for the Brookwood Boys Basketball game against the Bristol Falcons. Cheerleaders this season include: Raylene Gonzalez, Lexi Laramy, Kelly Locander, Madisyn Wulf, Autumn Clark, Meakena Ludtke, Caitlyn Baylor, Drew Kraemer, Katelin Wong, Dana Stumpfol, Alexus Lopez, Madeleine Northern, Hope Ayres, Hailey […]
By Bob Peryea CORRESPONDENT The weather this year was perfect for sculpting according to the participants at Lake Geneva’s Winterfest. The week started with a couple of warm days, but fell away to dropping temperatures and flurries of snow. The near zero temperatures were not a deterrent to the […]
Aydyn Jones (from left), 6, Dylan Jones, 4 and Angie Raya, all of Darien, get their authentic Rosebowl footballs signed by Bucky Badger during the intermission at the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band concert at the Delavan-Darien High School Sunday. The boys got their footballs when they attended the Rose […]
The store will be closed indefinitely until further notice By Alexandrea Dahlstrom SLN STAFF The owners of Pesche’s Greenhouse, W4080 Highway 50 W, Lake Geneva, lost their main greenhouse in a fire early Sunday morning. Lake Geneva Fire Chief Brent Connelly said the department received the call at 2:35 a.m. […]
Lake Geneva will host more than 60,000 attendees Jan. 30 through Feb. 3 at the U.S. National Snow Sculpting Competition during the city’s Winterfest. As the only nationally sanctioned snow sculpting event, guests will witness the lakefront be transformed into a walk-through gallery of 9-plus-foot-tall sculptures made of snow, water […]
Animal shelter’s resale shop goes to an all-volunteer staff “These are people (boutique volunteers) that get what we are trying to do in this community. They understand that we are trying to save as many homeless animals as possible in our community and that we are doing whatever we can […]
By John Koski SLN Staff A Walworth County Sheriff’s Deputy shot and killed a jail inmate Monday evening at Aurora Lakeland Medical Center near Elkhorn, according to Walworth County Sheriff David Graves. Jail inmate Alfredo Emilio Villarreal, 18, of Janesville, had been transferred from the Walworth County Jail for medical […]
