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Thursday, April 25, 2024
News from throughout Western Racine County.
Thomas Bus gets ‘preferred’ status as community turns out in support of company By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer What makes the best business practice for Burlington Area School District when it comes to contracts like student transportation – the lowest cost, the best service, or some combination of the two? […]
Concert makes a big impact on local college student By Julie Rossman Correspondent It wasn’t Justin Timberlake, it wasn’t Taylor Swift. But, for 22-year-old Sean Krause, a trip to Milwaukee to see and hear the Gaithers in concert was a dream come true. “I love their music, all the time,” […]
Cheryl Fladwood, children’s librarian for the Rochester Public Library, has announced her retirement. She has been the children’s librarian in Rochester since 1998, after a combined 26 years teaching grade school and preschool. Fladwood has the stories to share and many special memories of those years to remember. “One […]
Assembly speaker was happy to be on home turf dealing with constituents By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer At Burlington High School May 6 to honor three individual state champions, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said that particular duty was one of his more pleasurable ones. Someone cracked a joke […]
Here is the text of the State of the County speech delivered by County Executive Jim Ladwig to the County Board Tuesday night: Report by the County Executive on the state of the county “Mr. Chairman, members of the Board of Supervisors, distinguished guests, and residents of Racine County; I […]
The Waterford Public Library now offers patrons in a hurry a quick and convenient way to check out library resources – a self-check station. “The idea came about a year and a half ago from the IT staff at Lakeshores Library System,” explained Library Director Pam Belden. “They let the […]
Union Grove High School students learn what it really means to get a life By Gregory Wall and Jeff Nielsen, Community State Bank Contributors On any other school day Jacob Noll, a junior at Union Grove High School, goes to classes, studies, hangs out with his friends and generally does […]
By Patricia Bogumil Staf Writer A 24-year-old Burlington man found face down and not breathing in a Waterford residence allegedly had enough presence of mind to conceal a baggie of marijuana between his butt cheeks while in the ambulance ride to the hospital, and move that baggie to a more […]
A knife fight between two employees of the Union Grove Family Restaurant Sunday evening left both men with non-life threatening lacerations and one of them with broken bones. Racine County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the restaurant at 1400 15th Avenue about 5 p.m. for a report of a fight between […]
Average retail gasoline prices in Wisconsin have risen 3.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.78 per gallon yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 3,112 gas outlets in Wisconsin. This compares with the national average that has increased 6.2 cents per gallon in the last week to […]
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