Rare, but powerful, winter storm packed winds up to 160 mph By Jason Arndt Staff Writer While residents braved blustery subzero temperatures entering 2018, Western Kenosha County experienced an entirely different scenario 10 years ago, when an EF-3 tornado ripped through the Town of Wheatland and surrounding areas. The tornado, […]

Exaggeration, hunting earn title as top lie of 2017 By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Combining two of Wisconsin’s time-honored traditions – hunting and exaggeration – proved to be a winning recipe for a Fond du Lac man. Dennis Mueller, of the central Wisconsin city at the foot of Lake […]

The flood of July 2017 set records for the water that rose and the damage that befell the residents of the Burlington area. It will also long be remembered for the way it disrupted normal lives and livelihoods during an era when most people believe themselves to be insulated from […]

Voters overwhelmingly reject Burlington Area School District proposals Hoping to address aging infrastructure and community desires in one fell swoop, the Burlington Area School District floated a three-pronged referendum in the April election. What School Board members and administrators got was a striking rebuke from voters who rejected all three […]

Project is on track to open for 2018 swimming season The 51st and final season of the Burlington Community Pool ended Aug. 25 and about a week later heavy equipment rolled in to demolish the outdated facility and create what is now know as the Burlington Community Aquatic Center. As […]

The news that three popular Burlington area students had died in a fiery crash May 28 plunged the community into mourning. Burlington High School juniors Jason Davis and Hunter Morby, both 17, and 2015 BHS graduate Landen Brown, 20, were killed when the car they were in collided with a […]

  Among the lingering impacts of July’s flood was the City Council’s decision in October to join the Racine County Communications Center and lay off five city-employed dispatchers. The city’s emergency dispatching equipment was destroyed when water infiltrated the basement of the police station during the flood. That prompted city […]

Flood dominates a year marked by triumph, tragedy By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief What started as a seemingly normal thunderstorm on a Tuesday evening in July turned out to be anything but that. Over the next 12 hours or so, the rain continued to pound the area in waves […]

Disabled man walked away in dispute with mother A dispute between a mother and her grown son turned into a search-and-rescue operation in the Town of Burlington on Christmas Eve. A 58-year-old woman and her son, 29, who has autism, were returning home to Illinois after visiting family in the […]