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Monday, November 18, 2024
Karcher Middle School eighth-grader Dominick DeRosier is one of two local students to participate in the Wisconsin National Geographic Bee earlier this month. The other, Connor Raboine, is an eighth grader at St. Charles School. Both boys qualified by winning their school geography bees and then taking a written test […]
The Fox River in Burlington was nearly two feet over flood stage at 12.8 feet early Friday morning and is expected to rise above 13 feet before subsiding, according to the National Weather Service office in Sullivan. Burlington’s Riverside Park (above) is submerged and water has encroach upon Maryland Avenue, […]
Five years after rare illness almost killed her, Sophie Branen will tell her story to Hope Walk audience By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer Sometimes, it can be terrifyingly easy to lose hope. And sometimes, a simple gesture by a complete stranger can restore it. In 2008, then-14-year-old Sophie Branen was […]
Due to encroaching floodwaters from the Fox River, state transportation officials will close Highway 50 in western Kenosha County early Friday morning. The highway will be closed from Highway 83 on the west to Highway 75 on the east, according to officials with the state Department of Transportation officials. Drivers […]
Officials throughout the county are monitoring rising water levels Communities throughout Western Racine County are making sandbags available to residents whose properties are threatened by the rising waters of the Fox River. Racine County Emergency Management and Public Works Departments hosted a meeting for area municipal officials at 8:30 a.m. […]
Lisa Muschel (from left), Dana Harvey, Carolyn Perrine and Jamie Ellingstad perform as members of the “By the Book” Sweet Adelines Quartet at Sunday’s benefit for the Echo Lake Foods employee relief fund at Veterans Terrace. The event, organized by Miss Burlington ChocolateFest Claire Olson, raised more than $1,200 for […]
City to provide sandbags for flood-impacted residents High water from the Fox River forced City of Burlington officials to close portions of Riverside Park last week. With heavy rains predicted in the period beginning at noon Wednesday through Friday this week, officials with the National Weather Service’s Sullivan office have […]
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 […]
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 […]
BHS cast is custom fit for production of ‘Les Mis’ By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer When Burlington High School produced the musical “Les Miserables” in the spring of 2003, the show was so new – and so widely unknown to American audiences – that it took some added effort to […]
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