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Burlington

Rib Festival moved to Oct. 27

Event will share the day with annual Spooky City activities By Jason Arndt Editor The date of the City of Burlington’s second annual Autumn Rib Festival has been moved to Saturday, Oct. 27. The event was originally scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 20, but city officials decided Friday to postpone it […]

Burlington

Costs exceed budget for Lewis Street wall project

Reconstruction complications add more than $58,000 to bill By Jason Arndt Editor While the Lewis Street wall was under reconstruction this past summer, contractors were hampered with two unexpected circumstances, which left the City of Burlington covering cost overruns. Although the city was reimbursed for the first unexpected circumstance, which […]

Waterford

Victim in fatal crash identified

The Racine County Sheriff’s Department has identified the woman who died Tuesday in a crash with a semi truck on Highway 20 in the Town of Dover as Allison Olesinski, 23, of North Prairie. According to her obituary, Olesinski was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was studying […]

Burlington

Gateway to host fire, EMS recruitment event

The Gateway Technical College Fire Program is partnering with fire departments throughout Kenosha, Racine, and Walworth counties to recruit new firefighters and emergency medical technicians. Gateway will host a recruitment event on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the HERO Center, 380 McCanna Parkway, Burlington. Participants […]

Burlington

Your chance to learn about the referendum

BASD hosts open house sessions for district voters By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Burlington Area School District residents have a chance to learn more about the district’s Nov. 6 referendum during a series of open house sessions that began this week. The first session was held Tuesday and the […]

Burlington

In this week’s Standard Press…

      School Board members have been working more than a year to craft a referendum that addresses the Burlington Area School District’s facility needs and has a chance to garner approval of local voters on Nov. 6. So what’s in the $43.7 million proposal and how much will it cost […]