By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor Each year, Burlington Area School District School Board member Larry Anderson pulls numbers from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to compare tax rates. His purpose? To educate district residents on how Burlington’s school taxes compare with those of surrounding districts. The comparison shows BASD has […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor     Bullying is something that educators in the Burlington Area School District take very seriously.     Preventing bullying is something that school counselors Andrea Donegan and Mary Wagner embrace at Dyer Intermediate School – which houses four different schools’ worth of students, all coming together for […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor     After fighting for the last few months just to get the Wisconsin State Legislature to even consider legalizing medical marijuana for seizure disorders, a Burlington resident saw progress this week.     Sally Schaeffer has been fighting the last few months to get the Legislature to […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor     For Lisa Just, a career in health care began with a job as a physical therapist.     But after getting a master’s degree in health services administration, she has also found herself moving through the administrative ladder at Aurora Health Care – her employer since […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor As Department of Public Works Supervisor Dan Jensen explained March 4 at the City of Burlington Common Council Committee of the Whole meeting, the money spent last year to inventory the city’s trees was well spent. In addition to finding out the health of the trees […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor It’s a story line straight from “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” But in this case, the students of biology teacher Greg Zeman – especially Burlington High School freshman Austin Squires – definitely believe. In February, a two-headed calf was born at Whitley Farms, where Squires lives […]