By David Paulsen SPORTS CORRESPONDENT The Burlington High School girls basketball team kicked off its season at Hartford Tuesday and were dealt a 49-40 loss. “It was a decent start (to our season),” head coach Gordon Nikolic said. The Demon girls led 11-7 in the first quarter, but Hartford scored […]
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How ’bout some Clapton with your coffee?
Popularity of open mic night at local coffee house grows By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer If you stop into The Coffee House at Chestnut and Pine, you immediately get the sense there is more to the place than just coffee and tea. Co-owner Rhonda Sullivan said when the coffee shop […]
Focusing on test results
School improvement plans strive to improve measurable scores By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer While administrators in the Burlington Area School District stress that testing is a snapshot of a specific student at a specific period of time, those same tests are also a gauge of overall student achievement. As a […]
Sharing that holiday spirit
Volunteers help prepare desserts as part of the Thanksgiving Dinner served last week at St. John the Divine Church in Burlington. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)
Aurora plans to close hospital birthing center
Local officials are concerned about an erosion of service in Burlington By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Aurora Memorial Hospital of Burlington will no longer deliver babies beginning next summer, shifting that service exclusively to Aurora Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn. While Aurora’s Burlington hospital and clinic will continue to […]
Not your everyday Riverwalk stroll
A pack of runners race down the Riverwalk in Burlington as part of the Talmer Bank Turkey Trot Thanksgiving morning. Hundreds of runners turned out for the second annual event. Lemke finished 11th in the 4-mile race. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)
Woodpile catches fire
Firefighters from the Town of Burlington extinguish a blaze that broke out in a woodpile next to an outdoor wood-burning furnace on the Rice Family Farm, 29800 Bushnell Road, on Nov. 23. Firefighters from several other local departments stood by with addition manpower and equipment as town fire department succeeded […]
Rauch won’t seek another council term
By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer City of Burlington Alderman Steve Rauch announced at Nov. 20 City Council meeting that he will not seek a fourth term. Rauch, who represents the 3rd District, read from a statement during the aldermanic reports, saying the demands on his time by his family and […]
It’s one surprise after another on the WSD beat
By Patricia Bogumil Editor An attorney hired by three full-time employees of the Town of Waterford Sanitary District has made a written complaint to the Racine County district attorney’s office about how WSD conducts its meetings. That letter, sent Nov. 8 by attorney Paul Bucher to District Attorney Richard Chiapete, […]
Man tools over to jail after standoff in Yorkville
An argument in the Town of Yorkville over a toolbox resulted in a visit by the county SWAT team, which in turn led to accommodations at the Racine County Jail Saturday for a Racine County man. As of press time, Laurence Esser, 55, was being held in the jail on […]
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