Members of the O’Brien family, Lacee (from left), Kevin, Cyndi and Cara, gather at the start of the 13th annual Joey O’Brien Memorial Golf Outing at Browns Lake Golf Course on Saturday. The golf outing has raised more than $500,000 that funds local scholarships for students whose families are affected […]
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Technology, school safety top WUHS goals
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Laptops, employee health insurance and school safety are among some of the disparate items high on Waterford Union High School leaders’ minds for the next school year. Superintendent Keith Brandstetter presented the WUHS School Board with an eight-point list of goals he and other administrators will […]
Snakes alive!
Bong State Recreational Assistant Naturalist Jon Brumm shows sisters Aniela (left) and Aleksandra Anuszkiewicz a western fox snake during the Family Nature Faire on June 3. Area residents had a chance to get in touch with nature last weekend at the state park in Kansasville during its annual Free Fun […]
Proposed school budget includes tax break
Tax levy is down 10 percent in 2018-19 proposal By Alex Johnson Correspondent The property tax rate is down 12.5 percent in the proposed 2018-19 budget for the Burlington Area School District, according to district officials. The district’s Finance Committee on Monday voted 3-0 to send the proposal to the […]
Failing culvert closes county highway
Highway U (80th Street), from Highway 20 north to County Highway K in the Town of Yorkville, was shut down Friday and is expected to be closed for four to six weeks while crews repair failing culvert, according to officials with Racine County. The road will be fully closed a […]
Waterford woman dies in crash with dump truck
It was the second local truck-involved fatality in a week A 28-year-old woman from the Waterford area died Wednesday afternoon when her car crashed into a dump truck in an intersection on Highway 11 in the Town of Burlington. The crash was reported at 1:40 p.m. and occurred at the […]
Car crashes through store entrance
No serious injuries reported at Reinenman’s By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief As a longtime member of the Burlington Rescue Squad Jeff Koenen is accustomed to rushing to the scenes of car crashes. However, he never had a crash come directly to him – until Tuesday, that is. It was […]
A massive undertaking
Railroad will connect Calumet Street to Bridge Street By Jason Arndt Staff Writer Eager to start construction on a large-scale project to connect little-used Calumet Street to the Bridge Street overpass, Canadian National Railway Co./Wisconsin Central Ltd. made a series of concessions Tuesday, which brought approval by the Burlington Common […]
In this week’s Standard Press…
It’s not often that schools have two different teams in the state tournament in the same season. Burlington High School joined those elite schools this week when its baseball team qualified for the state tournament for the third year in a row. The baseball team’s performance comes on the […]
B-Town Sounds returns June 14
Outdoor concert series features seven shows in 2018 The B-Town Sounds concert series is slated to return June 14 for another season of pairing live music and craft beer with summer nights in Burlington’s Echo Park. This year’s seven-show lineup features a full spectrum of music from bluegrass to country […]
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