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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Festival undergoes changes for 2013 By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief It’ll be out with the old and in with the new as 2013 shapes up to be a year of transition for ChocolateFest, Burlington’s marquee annual festival. The most notable change for festivalgoers this year will be the ability […]
By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer Monday was supposed to be about a triumphant race on one of marathon’s biggest stages for Burlington High School graduate Cory Harris. Instead, the runner turned into a witness to a terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. Cory Harris, a standout runner for BHS […]
By David Paulsen SPORTS CORRESPONDENT The Union Grove softball team opened its season Friday at Kenosha Bradford and dropped a 2-0 non-conference game. The Bronco girls collected just two hits in the game, one by Annie McClelland and the other by Claire Ryan. “We clearly didn’t hit the ball well,” […]
By David Paulsen SPORTS CORRESPONDENT In seven early-season games, the Burlington High School softball team managed just one win, defeating Racine Park 6-4 on Saturday. The Demon girls began their season with a trip to Kentucky during spring break, playing teams from Eastern High School and Butler High School of […]
City of Burlington firefighters were dispatched to a residential area just east of Echo Lake Foods late Monday morning for a report of a natural gas leak. Fire and rescue crews responded to the area about 10:50 a.m. and determined the gas odor was emanating from the Echo Lake Foods […]
Highway 75 remains closed near Bong Recreation Area Conservation wardens are among a team of public safety and emergency workers keeping round-the-clock watch on Kenosha County’s Vern Wolf Lake Dam which is threatening to fail under the weight of heavy recent rains and embankment erosion. “We have a system in […]
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent While they are all autonomous from one another, officials overseeing each of five area public school districts recently discussed collaboration with each other, as well as their parochial school counterparts, at their most recent semi-annual Super Board Meeting. Leaders from the six school districts, in addition […]
Average retail gasoline prices in Wisconsin have fallen 4.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.56 yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 3,112 gas outlets in Wisconsin. This compares with the national average that has fallen 5 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.52, according […]
Fire began in storage area near practice gymnasium A small fire at Waterford Union High School was quickly extinguished Monday morning, but classes were canceled for the day. Initial reports from officials at the scene were that the fire broke out in a storage area near the practice gymnasium. The […]
By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer While the City of Burlington Plan Commission may have raised some concerns about how traffic will flow in and out of the new business, the commission ultimately approved the site plan submitted for an O’Reilly Auto Parts store. The store will be located at 824 […]
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