By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor For the first time in recent memory, the Burlington Area School District is negotiating teacher salaries for the future instead of the past. With a 5-2 vote to approve the salary schedules for both 2013-14 and 2014-15 Monday night at a special meeting of the School […]

  Jim McKusker speaks to the assembled crowd as the guest speaker at this year’s Memorial Day Service at Echo Park in Burlington. McKusker, a Vietnam War vet who was heavily involved in both veteran affairs and the Burlington community, died last week at the age of 65. (Photo by […]

By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief A late July burglary of the Plaza Theater has left the owner of the downtown Burlington fixture reeling and now he’s appealing to the community for help in solving the crime. “The magnitude of the loss is a real struggle,” said Shad Branen, who […]

The Burlington Area Association of Churches and Ministers will host its second annual Community Prayer Breakfast Wednesday, Oct. 1, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Veterans Terrace in Burlington. The cost for the event is $10, or $75 for a table of eight. Last year, the breakfast featured Pardeep Kaleka, […]

The Burlington Area Association of Churches and Ministers will host its second annual Community Prayer Breakfast Wednesday, Oct. 1, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Veterans Terrace in Burlington. The cost for the event is $10, or $75 for a table of eight. Last year, the breakfast featured Pardeep Kaleka, […]

    By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor When Paul and Rhonda Sullivan first made the decision to open the Coffee House at Chestnut and Pine, they wanted a community gathering place for Burlington. Not only have they gotten one, they’ve gotten one so popular that the place bursts at the seams […]

St. Charles Catholic Parish, Burlington, will host its 54th annual Fall Festival Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the parish grounds. A number of different activities will highlight the event: • The parish’s family-style turkey dinner will be available from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with dinner tickets […]

This drawing shows the tentative layout planned for the new Aurora facility on the outskirts of Burlington – a planned $75 million project. (Artwork submitted by Aurora) By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor After announcing in early 2014 that a new service facility would be constructed right outside of Burlington, Aurora Health […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart EDITOR While it wasn’t unanimous, the City of Burlington will have new retail alcohol sales hours. With a 5-2 vote Tuesday night, the Common Council passed a new ordinance that will allow the sale of alcohol by Class A liquor license holders starting at 6 a.m. – […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart EDITOR A week after the Burlington Area School District reached the decision to hire the Applied Population Laboratory to do a demographics study on the district, the BASD Long-Range Planning Committee made the choice to put that study into action when it is finished. The committee voted […]