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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
News from the Burlington area
Festival undergoes changes for 2013 By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief It’ll be out with the old and in with the new as 2013 shapes up to be a year of transition for ChocolateFest, Burlington’s marquee annual festival. The most notable change for festivalgoers this year will be the ability […]
By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer Monday was supposed to be about a triumphant race on one of marathon’s biggest stages for Burlington High School graduate Cory Harris. Instead, the runner turned into a witness to a terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. Cory Harris, a standout runner for BHS […]
City of Burlington firefighters were dispatched to a residential area just east of Echo Lake Foods late Monday morning for a report of a natural gas leak. Fire and rescue crews responded to the area about 10:50 a.m. and determined the gas odor was emanating from the Echo Lake Foods […]
By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer While the City of Burlington Plan Commission may have raised some concerns about how traffic will flow in and out of the new business, the commission ultimately approved the site plan submitted for an O’Reilly Auto Parts store. The store will be located at 824 […]
School has emphasized career readiness along with college prep By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief The four-year graduation rate at Burlington High School improved six percentage points last year, giving the school one of the best rates in the Southern Lakes Conference and putting it well above the state average. […]
BHS cast is custom fit for production of ‘Les Mis’ By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer When Burlington High School produced the musical “Les Miserables” in the spring of 2003, the show was so new – and so widely unknown to American audiences – that it took some added effort to […]
Aurora stands firm on O.B. closing; city must now decide whether to further pursue alternatives By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer If City of Burlington leaders were holding out hope Aurora Health Care officials would change their minds about closing the obstetrics department at Memorial Hospital of Burlington, a meeting on […]
Miss ChocolateFest helps organize Sunday concert at Veteran’s Terrace By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer When Claire Olsen was crowned Miss Burlington Area ChocolateFest last spring, she pledged her year of service would go to help homeless people in the area. Now, Olsen is part of a large effort to help […]
Dyer expo paired students with local industry By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer When Dyer Intermediate School first launched Design Squad three years ago, the idea was to introduce fifth- and sixth-grade students to the fundamentals of STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Now, after three years, there are about […]
Highway 11 from Highway 120 west to I-43 in Walworth County is scheduled to close to through-traffic today as the state Department of Transportation begins a $1.5 million repaving project. Construction along the approximately five-mile stretch includes milling of the current pavement, joint and crack repair and asphalt repaving, according […]
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