By Bud Milroy Sports Correspondent For Catholic Central High School girls basketball coach Jeff Behrens, the 2012-13 season will be a work in progress. “We’re a very young team with just three returning lettermen, so I expect that we’ll struggle early in the season,” said Behrens. “But I’ve seen a […]
Author: Ed Nadolski
Young Hilltoppers hope to make strides forward
By Bud Milroy Sports Correspondent It’s a young Catholic Central High School boys basketball team this year – and head coach Eric Henderson expects that to be a little bit of a problem early on. “Honestly, we’ll take a few lumps early as the season starts out, but I believe […]
BHS boys start strong
By Jennifer Eisenbart Sports Editor While the Burlington High School boys basketball team may still be figuring out where all the pieces of the puzzle go, those pieces showed they could score Tuesday night in the season opener. The Demons scored more than 20 points in two of the four […]
Young Demon wrestlers hoping for repeat
By David Paulsen SPORTS CORRESPONDENT Last year, for the first time in school history, the Burlington High School wrestling team went to the WIAA State Tournament. In addition, the Demons had seven individual wrestlers compete at WIAA Individual State. This year, with a very young squad, the task will probably […]
Numbers aside, future bright for gym squad
By Jennifer Eisenbart Sports Editor A year ago, the Burlington/Badger/Wilmot gymnastics team took the state by storm, setting a new Division 1 state record and dominating throughout the regular season. But the squad came up short of the state title – maybe the only goal the team didn’t accomplish. That […]
Demon girls drop season opener to Hartford
By David Paulsen SPORTS CORRESPONDENT The Burlington High School girls basketball team kicked off its season at Hartford Tuesday and were dealt a 49-40 loss. “It was a decent start (to our season),” head coach Gordon Nikolic said. The Demon girls led 11-7 in the first quarter, but Hartford scored […]
How ’bout some Clapton with your coffee?
Popularity of open mic night at local coffee house grows By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer If you stop into The Coffee House at Chestnut and Pine, you immediately get the sense there is more to the place than just coffee and tea. Co-owner Rhonda Sullivan said when the coffee shop […]
Focusing on test results
School improvement plans strive to improve measurable scores By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer While administrators in the Burlington Area School District stress that testing is a snapshot of a specific student at a specific period of time, those same tests are also a gauge of overall student achievement. As a […]
Sharing that holiday spirit
Volunteers help prepare desserts as part of the Thanksgiving Dinner served last week at St. John the Divine Church in Burlington. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)
Aurora plans to close hospital birthing center
Local officials are concerned about an erosion of service in Burlington By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Aurora Memorial Hospital of Burlington will no longer deliver babies beginning next summer, shifting that service exclusively to Aurora Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn. While Aurora’s Burlington hospital and clinic will continue to […]
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