Average retail gasoline prices in Wisconsin have risen 5.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.45 Sunday. This compares with the national average that has increased 3.8 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.41, according to gasoline price website WisconsinGasPrices.com. Including the change in gas prices […]
Sports & Other News
Asphalt plant owner wants to be a good neighbor
He contends operation won’t cause the problems opponents fear By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff writer To Asphalt Contractors Inc. owner Bob Kordus, the time for controversy over his asphalt plant setting up operation in Burlington is long past. In fact, at the first meetings over the process, Kordus saw maybe 15-20 […]
WSD recall election set for Aug. 14
By Patricia Bogumil Editor The Waterford Town Board met in special session Tuesday morning to certify the validity of 695 signatures on a petition to recall Commissioner Bill Gerard from the Town of Waterford Sanitary District (WSD). The 695 valid signatures are 164 more than the 531 required by the […]
Aug. 1 deadline looms for WSD employee benefits
By Patricia Bogumil Editor Employment contracts sought under the state Open Records Law for full-time employees in the Town of Waterford Sanitary District were released July 2 to former WSD Commissioner Dan Dickinson, who made the request last month. He is currently a candidate in a recall election set for […]
Farmers, gardeners, drowning in speculation, but no rain
By Annette Newcomb Staff Writer You don’t have to be a farmer to be worried about the weather. Backyard gardeners and landscapers are dealing with moisture-starved, browning lawns, and wilting trees and shrubs. And there’s no relief in sight. Every day without rain means farmers are watching commodities like […]
Mother Nature, could you spare a drink?
Crops suffer, water levels plummet as hot, dry weather lingers By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff writer Long before Ralph Rice was Chairman for the Town of Burlington, he was a farmer. “I’ve never done anything else but,” he explained. And in the 60-plus years he has been farming, he has […]
Talented and tough: Fitzpatrick tops All-Area team
By Jennifer Eisenbart Sports editor For the Union Grove Union High School softball team, there’s nothing like having an ace in the hole. A pitching ace, that is. Any time Alice Fitzpatrick took the mound for the Broncos over the past four years, it became clear her team would have […]
Water level will keep Aquaducks on dry land
The Browns Lake Aquaducks water ski show team has cancelled all shows after it’s July 7 Venetian Night performance due to low water levels. Saturday’s main show is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at Fischer Park on Browns Lake. The team regularly performs on Thursday evenings through the Labor […]
Struggles continue for Blue Devils
By Jennifer Eisenbart Sports editor Life has not been kind to the Southern Lakes Blue Devils so far this season. A handful of missed opportunities led to the fourth straight loss for the Blue Devils, this time 14-12 to the Wauwatosa Spartans at Westosha Central High School Saturday. The Blue […]
Check your computer before Monday
Infected computers could lose Internet access, BBB says Hundreds of thousands of Internet uses may lose their online access on July 9, 2012, and the Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is urging all consumers and businesses to run a quick and easy diagnostic test to see if their computers are infected. […]
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