By Tracy Ouellette Staff Writer By a greater than 2-to-1 margin, a crowd of more than 100 Waterford Graded School District residents voted April 22 to keep their school board members’ pay frozen at zero for the 2012-13 school year. The no-pay issue was brought back to citizens for a […]
Sports & Other News
City launches street repair projects
Washington Street will be closed to traffic near fire station By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer While the weather may still feel like early spring – and at times like winter – the summer road construction season has already begun in Burlington. “We have streets closed already,” said Mayor Bob Miller. […]
Pauly captures two victories at Greendale Invite
By David Paulsen SPORTS CORRESPONDENT Although neither squad placed in the top half of the Greendale Invite Monday, Mickael Pauly had a very successful day, winning both the 400-meter dash and the 800. Pauly’s victories accounted for 20 of the Burlington High School boys’ track and field team’s 32.5 points. […]
Village financial audit reveals healthy fund balance
By Jason Arndt Correspondent Union Grove Village Board members received favorable reviews in the Annual Financial Audit April 22 despite the challenge of making a tough decision to refinance the village’s Tax Incremental Financing district loan in 2012. The decision to refinance that loan, obtained in 2007, was made in […]
BASD budget begins to take shape
Levy at 1 percent increase, but final figures are months away By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer The Burlington Area School District has begun to narrow down the numbers for its 2013-14 budget, but there will be several different factors up in the air for the next few months. BASD officials […]
BHS softball comes up short at Waterford
By David Paulsen SPORTS CORRESPONDENT The Burlington High School softball team took it on the chin Monday at Waterford in a 9-0 loss to the Wolverines in Southern Lakes Conference action. The loss dropped the Demon girls to 3-7 overall, and 2-1 in the SLC. “They hit the ball hard […]
Demon girls defeat Badger, 1-0
By David Paulsen SPORTS CORRESPONDENT An unassisted goal by Merin Mundt just four minutes into the game held up as the Burlington High School girls soccer team defeated Lake Geneva Badger 1-0 Monday at home. “We played well in the first half, and Merin took a good shot to take […]
Clean Sweep is Saturday
Residents will be able to dispose of hazardous materials By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer The spring Clean Sweep program at the Burlington Department of Public Works will be Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon. Last year, among the six communities involved, more than 43,000 pounds of hazardous household waste, […]
CCHS baseball finally gets on field
By Bud Milroy Sports Correspondent The Catholic Central baseball team finally broke up Mother Nature’s shutout of 2013 Saturday, traveling to Orfordville to play Parkview. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said CCHS coach Tom O’Connell. “We have six games to reschedule already and from the forecasts, more to come.” […]
From Out in Right Field – Let’s face it: this spring plain sucks
By Jennifer Eisenbart Sports Editor I have to admit, after enduring the last month of rainy weather, flying to Los Angeles last weekend for the NCAA women’s gymnastics championships was a blast. Not only did I get to see great gymnastics – the Florida Gators won the title for […]
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