As a brief rain shower moved through Waterford Tuesday, this cloud shadow was visible in the sky. The weather phenomenon is highly dependent on timing and location. (Photo by Terry Alby)

A faint sliver of a crescent moon hangs over Burlington’s historic water tower as the sun sets over Echo Lake Tuesday, creating a multi-hued “watercolor” in this image captured on a mobile phone camera. (Photo by Ed Nadolski)

Riders on run No. 6 of the annual Tri-County Riders Toy Run for the benefit of Love Inc. arrive at their first stop Sunday – Dizzy’s Bar in Waterford. The event attracted more than 500 riders. In it’s 21st year, the ride has raised roughly $300,000 for the Love Inc. […]

Beth Reetz (left) and Ellen Burling staff the welcome table at last weekend’s Football Frenzy, an annual benefit for the Burlington Gridiron Club. While the Wisconsin Badgers may have lost the game to Alabama, the event seemed to draw in a happy crowd. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)

City of Burlington firefighter John McCourt unfurls the American flag from the top of a ladder truck high above Don Dalton Stadium at Burlington High School Friday night. Local emergency service providers – from police to firefighters and rescue personnel – encircled the stadium for a solemn, yet stirring, remembrance […]

  Some may call them nerds. Some call them delusional. Some would even go so far as to call them losers. I call them geniuses. That’s right, I’m talking about the brave men and women who don’t suit up or step on the field every Sunday but the ones who […]

  Now that the dust has settled from the Racine Horlick head football coach fiasco, I have managed to actually sleep a few hours. In case you were living under the Earth, Brian Fletcher received a one-game suspension for his use of the word “Caucasian” in Horlick’s 39-24 loss at […]

Students join hands for the walk from the bus to the classroom on the first day of class Tuesday at Evergreen Elementary School in Waterford. (Photo by Terry Alby)