By David Paulsen Sports Correspondent With a 59-48 non-conference win over Racine Horlick Friday, the Burlington High School girls basketball team has put together a mini winning streak. The win was the second in a row for the team that has won just three games so far this season. “We’re […]
Sports & Other News
School Board candidate defends BASD insurance costs
His figures show Burlington has lowest cost to taxpayers among local districts By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer Burlington Area School District School Board of Education member Larry Anderson ran for the board three years ago saying he wanted to help the district in a time of financial turmoil. Now, […]
’Toppers split games during busy week
By Bud Milroy Correspondent For the first time this season the young ’Toppers picked up back-to back-wins last week, defeating Kenosha Ruether 52-40 and Greendale Martin Luther 65-38. The mini winning streak was short lived, however, as Catholic Central (3-12, 1-10 MCC) dropped its next two to conference rivals St. […]
Standard Press to host School Board candidates forum on Feb. 7
The Burlington Standard Press on Feb. 7 will host a forum for candidates in next month’s primary election for local School Board. The forum is slated for 7 p.m. at Veterans Terrace at Echo Park, 589 Milwaukee Avenue. All nine candidates for the two open seats on the Burlington Area […]
Wrestlers pin down another title
By David Paulsen Sports Correspondent With a team total of 414 points, the Burlington High School wrestling squad won the 18-team Highlander Invitational Friday at Homestead High School, Mequon. “That was obviously a good night,” head coach Jade Gribble said. Port Washington finished second with 361.5 points. Four Demons won […]
City will consider installing crosswalk
Granddaughter of man who died urges officials to improve safety By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Autumn Hoffman believes her grandfather might still be alive if there was a lighted crosswalk in the area of the new Kwik Trip store on South Pine Street. Motivated by that notion – and […]
Determined dribbler
Catholic Central High School’s Kelsey Robers wears a determined look as she dribbles up court during a Jan. 21 game against Racine Lutheran. Robers led the Hilltoppers with 12 points in the losing effort. (Photo by John Fisher)
Beauty and the beast
Even as temperatures plunged below zero Tuesday morning Mother Nature had a way of taking the chill out of the air by providing scenes like this at the White River Dam in Burlington’s Echo Park. The early morning sun illuminated trees and danced through the icy vapor rising from the […]
Fire crews dispatched to local restaurant for ceiling collapse
The Town of Burlington Fire Department was dispatched to the Waterfront restaurant on Weiler Road shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday night after a report of the ceiling collapsing in the kitchen area. According to dispatch from the Racine County Communications Center, a portion of the ceiling had collapsed in the […]
BREAKING NEWS: Deputy shoots, kills inmate during escape attempt at Lakeland Hospital
A Walworth County Sheriff’s Deputy shot and killed a jail inmate Monday evening at Aurora Lakeland Medical Center near Elkhorn as the inmate was attempting to escape, according to authorities. Jail inmate Alfredo Emilio Villarreal, 18, of Janesville, was at the hospital for medical tests when, according to a sheriff’s […]
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