Waterford Graded School District students earned second-place honors in the Southern Lakes Academic Quiz Bowl, held at the Cotton Exchange in Waterford on March 13. A total of five school districts from southeastern Wisconsin participated including Elkhorn, Delavan-Darien, Whitewater, Lake Geneva and Waterford.  Seventy-five students in grades six, seven and […]

An informal public information meeting has been set by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Southeast Region for Wednesday, March 27, on the future state highways 83/20 reconstruction projects eyed for 2018. The open house will run from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Community Room of the Waterford […]

By Patricia Bogumil Editor Town of Waterford residents will soon select a new town chairman as a result of the retirement next month of Robert Langmesser, who has served 25 years in that position. The two candidates vying for the town chairman position in the April 2 election currently serve […]

By Patricia Bogumil Editor Tom Roanhouse hopes to be re-elected President of the Waterford Village Board to continue his long tenure of community involvement and advance solutions to some of the village’s most pressing issues. Judy Spencer, who has served as a village trustee for two years, hopes to unseat […]

By Patricia Bogumil Editor With spring fast approaching, it’s time to get ready for Wisconsin’s second season: road construction. Local officials say they hope to head off in advance any foreseeable problems likely to rumble down the road in the Highway 164 reconstruction project, due to start in Tichigan March […]

Town of Waterford Supervisor Lisa Jeschke is among 23 women to receive full scholarships to participate in this year’s six-week Wisconsin Women in Government (WWIG) 13th Annual Public Policy Graduate Seminar program. “We are pleased to offer this leadership training to women who are committed to continued careers in Wisconsin […]

Openings are still available for Community Day, being held Friday, April 19. The day will offer members of the Waterford community the opportunity to be a high school student for a day. On April 19, residents will be able to visit a number of different classes offered to students at […]

High school could also wield a budget veto By Tracy Ouellette Staff Writer While the Waterford Graded School District waits on a new temporary agreement being prepared for the Waterford Special Education Cooperative, School Board members expressed frustration at not having the information they need to make informed decisions regarding […]

By Dave Fidlin Correspondent With an eye toward long-term savings, commissioners overseeing the Waterford Sanitary District are considering a plan that will outsource some district functions to an outside company. At the commission’s most recent meeting held Feb. 14, the WSD board voted in favor of creating a Request For […]

By Patricia Bogumil Editor At its Feb. 18 meeting, the Washington-Caldwell District school board approved a 4-year-old kindergarten program for the 2013-2014 school year. Students enrolled in Washington School’s five-days-a-week morning program will spend the morning concurrently with the school’s 5-year-old kindergarten students. With the new 4K program set to start […]