Youngsters race onto the Burlington High School basketball court March 23 to pick up eggs in the annual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the BHS DRIVEN student leadership club. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)

Burlington High School students Kit Kocha (left) and Hanna Peterson prepare to participate in a game of donkey basketball sponsored by the school’s FFA organization March 21 at the school. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)

Nora Kebbekus (left) and Courtney Kouba, kindergarteners Rolling Hills School in Mukwonago, check their heartbeats during a visit to the Aurora Wellness Center in Burlington March 22. The students also enjoyed interacting with puppets, singing songs, and hand-on activities.  The staff at the wellness center teaches the children about stranger […]

The cast of Burlington High School’s upcoming production of “Les Miserables,” including (above from left) Marah Zinnen, Danny Levandoski and Hannah Anderson, perform a medley from the musical during Tuesday’s Sing-a-bration choral concert at Burlington High School. The concert featured various school district choirs featuring students in grades four through […]

Burlington High School students Claire Halverson (left) and Raquel Glinos help to fill plastic eggs with candy recently in preparation for the annual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the school’s DRIVEN student leadership organization. Students were expected to fill approximately 10,000 eggs. The egg hunt is planned for Saturday, March […]

Miss Southern Lakes Maggie Hill creatively adds frosting to her oversize cupcake March 16 during the Celebrity Cupcake Wars held as part of the annual Home Expo sponsored by the Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)

Reid Runkel of Burlington goes airborne as he competes in the Showdown at Sundown event March 15 at the Grand Geneva in Lyons. Runkel finished fourth in that event and took seventh-place overall all in the national Nielsen Enterprises Grand Finale competition in the Junior Novice 10-13 age division. (Photo […]

Jillian Humphrey (center) is in a long line of flute players as the combined forces of the Dyer, Karcher and Burlington High school bands join together Monday night for the playing of “Tutti Flutti.” The performance was part of the Burlington Area School District’s Band-o-Rama held at Burlington High School. […]

Swollen by recent rain and snow, the White River rushes over the dam at Echo Park in Burlington Tuesday. River levels in the area peaked Tuesday about a foot below flood stage, according to National Weather Service observations. The levels are forecast to taper off through the end of the […]