Matthew Von Bergen shares a moment with his grandpa, veteran Glen Von Bergen, during Yorkville School’s Veterans Day event on Nov. 10. The program gave students a chance to interview and honor local veterans and family members who served. 

The Racine County Sheriff’s Office resumed a search Nov. 6 for a Town of Dover woman who went missing in June. The office is continuing to investigate the disappearance of Lynn Rickard, 59, and has continued to investigate information received from the public. Rickard was reported missing from her Town […]

Investigators from two departments are attempting to find the person or persons who shot out windows on nearly 50 vehicles Saturday night. The Racine County Sheriff’s Department reports that 32 vehicles were struck in the Village of Union Grove between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. In the City of Burlington another […]

Union Grove Elementary School student Ella Reesman slimes director of student services Tom Hansen during a pep assembly Nov. 2 with assistance from counselor Erin Weber. Students and staff celebrated raising more than $3,000 for a childhood cancer charity.

Gas station and store eyed for site on Durand Ave. By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Residents and other motorists passing through Union Grove on a daily basis may soon have a new option for fuel and convenience store fare. The village Plan Commission on Nov. 6 conducted a preliminary review of […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent After an extensive search, Union Grove’s elected officials have hired an administrator who has worked in various capacities in Racine County in a nearly four-decade span of time. After having gone without one for nearly a decade, the Union Grove Village Board on Oct. 23 named […]

Jessica Schnick works on her pie with no hands during the pie-eating contest at the Pumpkin Chuckin’ Festival at the Racine County Fairgrounds on Sunday. The event was part of the Great Pumpkin Chuckin’ Fest, sponsored by the Greater Union Grove Area Chamber of Commerce. (Photo by Toni Schneider)

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 2 for a Union Grove man charged with beating two people in a “mob-mentality” fight outside a Racine bar in September. Marshawn J. Thurman, 27, was charged Oct. 23 in Racine County Circuit Court with two counts of substantial battery as a party […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent The recent news Foxconn is laying roots in Mount Pleasant has elected officials in at least one neighboring township contemplating their future. Town of Dover’s board briefly discussed the prospect of incorporating into a village at its monthly meeting Oct. 9 on the heels of the […]