Broncos adapting to compressed season By Tim Wester Correspondent With less practice time and multiple meets per week, the Union Grove track and field coach Mike Mikula summed up the current season as goofy. A goofy season has forced Mikula to take an unconventional approach to competition. The Broncos have […]
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Waterford soccer team sits atop SLC
Wolverines beat UG for first time since 2015 By Chris Bennett Correspondent Waterford scored three goals in the second half and beat Union Grove 4-1 Tuesday in a Southern Lakes Conference girls soccer match at Union Grove. Taylor Gordon scored twice in the second half against Grove, and assisted on […]
A sign of the changing times
New ordinance gives officials the ability to vote virtually, post-pandemic By Dave Fidlin Correspondent In a sign of what a post-COVID-19 environment could look like, Union Grove officials have gone on record in support of letting members of the elected Village Board and other appointed boards, commissions and committees participate […]
Backing away from the table
Rochester officials have cold feet on cooperative boundary plan By Dave Fidlin Correspondent To date, Rochester officials have been striking a collaborative tone in the Town of Waterford’s incorporation application process. But the latest step – signing onto a cooperative boundary plan agreement that could solidify the village’s borders into […]
Totally tubular
We Energies’ pipeline project is done on a massive scale By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Take a drive through the rural areas skirting the southern rim of Burlington – including Spring Prairie, Lyons, Brighton and Paris – and you’d be hard-pressed to miss the massive construction project winding its […]
First-place Demons are on a roll
Two no-hitters, key victories highlight perfect week By Mike Ramczyk Correspondent As a light rain sprinkled the Burlington High School varsity softball field Tuesday afternoon, the Demons were putting the finishing touches on another no-hit blowout. Morgan Klein and Brianna Morris combined to fire the Demons’ second no-hitter of […]
Man who died in house fire enjoyed motorsports
Funeral for Tyler Werlein was set for Friday Racine County authorities identified the man who died in a May 12 Town of Burlington house fire as 29-year-old Tyler Werlein. Werlein, according to his obituary, graduated from Burlington High School and worked as an auto technician before the house fire in […]
In this week’s Standard Press…
The Burlington Area School District, which previously acknowledged some shortcomings related to its handling of racial matters, recently submitted a corrective action plan to the Department of Public Instruction outlining directives to address an April 9 ruling against the district. “The submission aims to respond to directives from the DPI […]
Village offers update on incorporation battle
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent The Town of Waterford’s incorporation effort, and the Village of Waterford’s future annexation plans, took center stage when village officials held a question-and-answer meeting May 3. In early 2020, town leaders officially moved forward on the municipality’s sought-after incorporation into the Village of Tichigan, filing the […]
Additional sex charges filed against local man
He now faces 84 of counts of raping or secretly recording women and girls Shane Stanger, the local man initially charged in March with raping a former girlfriend and video recording the sexual assaults, saw the charges against him multiply exponentially Wednesday after investigators finished analyzing several of his electronic […]
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