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Saturday, February 8, 2025
Prosecutor’s personal story illustrates heroin’s devastation By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Nick was your typical Racine County teenager. He played sports and got respectable grades in high school. During the summer he displayed a joyous, sometimes reckless, abandon as a member of the Browns Lake Aquaducks water ski show […]
Here is a primer on how to recognize modern-day heroin and what it does to users from the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s heroin education campaign, theflyeffect.com. WHAT IS HEROIN? Heroin (also called boy, white, cheeva, brown sugar, H, Juan and tar) is an illegal and highly addictive drug that can […]
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor Using the 2012-13 salary schedule as a base, the Burlington Area School District and the Burlington Education Association – the teacher’s union – exchanged opening proposals Wednesday night to open wage negotiations for the current school year. As has been the case in recent years, the […]
By Chris Bennett Sports Correspondent The Waterford High School boys’ golf team is playing as it should if the program desires a second straight appearance at state. The Wolverines are regional champions for the second season in a row after winning the WIAA Division 1 Waukesha South Regional Tournament […]
ChocolateFest enjoys strong run on wings of good weather By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor With temperatures in the 80s for most of the holiday weekend and no rain until Monday afternoon, Burlington’s ChocolateFest enjoyed what festival president Bil Scherrer is calling its best-ever Memorial Day weekend. “Pam Wanasek put it best,” […]
By Mike Ramczyk Sports Editor By Bud Milroy Sports Correspondent Catholic Central pitcher Mackenzie Kyle had a game to remember Wednesday in a WIAA Division 4 regional semifinal in Burlington. Kyle fired a no-hitter against visiting Lake Country Lutheran, striking out nine and walking none. The hurler was a […]
A man snaps a picture of a name on one of the crosses displayed at the foot of the Veterans Memorial in Echo Lake Park following Memorial Day ceremonies in Burlington Monday. The display includes 1,670 crosses – each representing a deceased military veteran from the Burlington area. The number […]
Kimberly Lopez (left) peers out from behind safety goggles while mining for gems at the ChocoDig pit at ChocolateFest with the help of Steven Blahnik. Click here for a link to an album of ChocolateFest photos. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)
By Mike Ramczyk Sports Editor The Burlington and Waterford softball teams split their head-to-head matchup during the regular season. For the first four innings of their WIAA Division 1 regional semifinal Tuesday in Burlington, the teams were neck-and-neck in a 1-1 deadlock. But in the bottom of the […]
Friend named to all-tournament team By Mike Ramczyk Sports Editor The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater may have to change the name of its mascot from Warhawks to National Champs. With a 7-0 victory over Emory University Tuesday afternoon at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, the Warhawk baseball team won its […]
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