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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
News from throughout Western Racine County.
Schools will finalize plans in last week before classes start By Dave Fidlin Correspondent With the Sept. 1 start of the 2020-21 school year rapidly approaching, Waterford school officials assembled virtually for a town hall meeting Aug. 10 to discuss how fall instruction might shape up at an unprecedented time. […]
Union Grove High School to host special meeting to finalize return plan By Mike Ramczyk Correspondent The Aug. 10 Union Grove High School Board meeting saw roughly 40 spectators, including a group of people advocating for every day, in-person instruction at the school – a physical impossibility according to District […]
Donation of crayons, books signals new era for school district By Mike Ramczyk Correspondent Darnisha Garbade could have very easily taken her ball and gone home. After the Burlington Area School District partnered with the National Equity Project last month to combat racism in the district, Garbade, who heads the […]
One person suffered burns and several residents were displaced when a fire broke out Thursday afternoon in a third-floor unit of the Fox Crossing apartment complex in downtown Burlington. The building’s sprinkler system contained the fire and prevented it from “from engulfing the third-floor unit within minutes and expanding […]
Neighborhood residents rallied against plan to provide beer adjacent to Aquatic Center The board that oversees the operation of the Burlington Community Aquatic Center has decided to drop a proposal to sell beer from an adjacent patio in Burlington’s Devor Park. The Burlington Community Pool Board Inc. met Thursday to […]
Safety measures are in place, but virus will have final say, Plank says By Mike Ramczyk Correspondent Administrators and teachers in the Burlington Area School District are gearing up for Monday’s start of a school year that promises to be like no other before it. On Monday, students in grades […]
A fire ripped through this home at 625 W. State St., Burlington, early Wednesday morning. A neighbor told a correspondent for Southern Lakes Newspapers she awoke about 1 a.m. to see large flames coming from the home. Fire investigators and police were on the scene about 9 a.m. Wednesday searching […]
Administrators and teachers in the Burlington Area School District are gearing up for Monday’s start of a school year that promises to be like no other before it. Students in grades K4-12 return to school, in-person, for the first time since March. Students in kindergarten through sixth grades will […]
At least two low-level tornados were spawned by the storms that blustered across the Southern Lakes area Monday with damaging winds and heavy rains, according to the National Weather Service. The storms cut power to thousands – We Energies reported more than 13,000 outages at one point in Racine […]
The National Weather Service in Sullivan has issued a tornado Warning for Southeastern Walworth County and Southwestern Racine County. The warning remains in effect until 4:15 p.m. Monday. According to the Weather Service, radar indicated rotation consistent with a tornado as a severe thunderstorm moved Northeast through Lake Geneva at […]
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