Complete news coverage of Walworth County from Southern Lakes Newspapers
Saturday, December 21, 2024
By Kellen Olshefski Editor A subject is in custody after police asked residents to avoid Elkhorn’s Jackson Creek subdivision because of an active police scene Monday evening. Around 5 p.m. Monday night, the Elkhorn Police Department posted on its Facebook page that it was at an active police scene […]
Big Foot High School classes will resume as normal tomorrow morning after a search by various local agencies found no explosive devices, according to a press release from the school. Students were released early Tuesday from Big Foot Union High School after the school was informed of an in-house […]
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, […]
“If everyone knew Jesus, they wouldn’t feel lonely or afraid anymore.” ~Avery Johanna McCarthy Family starts ministry for girl killed in car crash By Alexandrea Dahlstrom SLN STAFF On Oct. 24, the Delavan community learned it had lost one of their children. It seemed everybody mourned the 11-year-old girl they […]
Miss Strict, played by Delavan-Darien High School senior Sarah Kieffer, belts out the last few notes of “Rules, Regulations, and Respect,” during the D-DHS production of “Zombie Prom.” (Photo by Kyle Forster)
Post office won’t deliver mail to neighborhood By Vicky Wedig SLN STAFF To North Fifth Street residents, the turkey who has wandered the neighborhood since it was born and abandoned there is one of their own. He attracts paparazzi of sorts – locals who stop to take pictures; has his […]
Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra “Symphony Gala” was held Feb. 16 at the Riviera Ballroom in Lake Geneva. Badger Junior Matt Frazier, first place winner at the 2012 Young Artist Concerto Competition and Rotary Club of Lake Geneva Neal Heffernan Art Scholarship. The concert was a fundraiser for the orchestra. […]
One of more than a dozen robins that Turtle Creek Drive resident Pat Stranc spotted in her yard Friday perches in a Washington hawthorn tree. Stranc has tracked the robins’ arrivals for three years and saw them in February for the first time this year. Stranc said they […]
A Lake Geneva man was killed Tuesday when the truck he was driving collided with a semi on Highway 11 in the Town of Darien. Carlos R Cantu, 44, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which happened about 50 feet east of Old Highway 89 at about […]
PHOTO BY Alexandrea Dahlstrom Six-year-old Caden Kummer climbs back up the hill after sailing down at the Rudy Lange Sledding Hill on Feb. 9. With weather in the low 30s, children crowded the hill for some outdoor activity.
