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Gas prices fall; but they’re still on high side

Average retail gasoline prices in Wisconsin have fallen 2.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.90 yesterday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 4.3 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.81, according to gasoline price website WisconsinGasPrices.com. Including the change in gas prices […]

Waterford

WSD bosses address staff cooperation

By Tracy Ouellette Staff Writer Newly elected Waterford Sanitary District Commissioner Dan Dickinson says he was taken aback recently after requesting some documents from the WSD administrator, Debbie Nelson. Nelson told Dickinson he’d have to make an open records request for the material he needed and pay for it like […]

Burlington

Low scores prompt change in exam procedures

By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer The Burlington Area School District is ready to close the chapter on its 2011 Wisconsin Knowledge and Concept Exam scores. That doesn’t mean, however, that the district didn’t learn a few lessons from lower-than-expected test scores. Last year, the WKCE exams were given in November. […]

Burlington

Haylofters announce cast of fall show

The Burlington Haylofters will close the season with a musical comedy featuring the ridiculous; a hilarious romp through a Florida trailer park, whose residents include an agoraphobic housewife, Jeannie, and her toll collector husband, Norbert, who’s been spending time with a stripper, Pippi, on the run from Duke, her magic […]

Waterford

WWMD budget easily passes

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Seventy percent of the nearly 100 residents in attendance voted in favor of a 2012-13 budget of more than $400,000 at the Waterford Waterway Management District’s annual meeting Saturday. Sixty of the 86 registered voters in attendance favored the budget of $427,398.76, which will fund operations […]

Union Grove

Intruder leaves in his own shoes

By Patricia Bogumil Editor A 43-year-old man living at a Department of Veterans Affairs cottage in Southern Wisconsin Center was arrested after a couple found him inside their home. According to the complaint filed in Racine County Circuit Court: Police were called Sept. 16 after a couple living on Tenth […]