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Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Construction workers start laying the first of the new pavement on one half of Milwaukee Avenue on Tuesday. It was a welcome sign for local motorists who have endured months of construction on the city’s busiest street. The project is slated for completion in November. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)
The Burlington Haylofters will close the season with a musical comedy featuring the ridiculous; a hilarious romp through a Florida trailer park, whose residents include an agoraphobic housewife, Jeannie, and her toll collector husband, Norbert, who’s been spending time with a stripper, Pippi, on the run from Duke, her magic […]
By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer Like many organizations these days, the Chestnut Club in Burlington, a non-profit senior citizen daycare facility, works on the generosity of others. So when the group issued a request for care packages – items desperately needed for every day use in the facility – RN […]
A car jumped a curb in the Burlington Pizza Hut Thursday afternoon, crashing into the restaurant and damaging the building. The restaurant was serving its lunchtime crowd at the time of the crash. According to the Burlington Police Department, no one was injured in the crash and the matter is […]
iPad initiative takes off at Catholic high school By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer There’s a new level of excitement at Catholic Central High School this fall, and teacher Matt DeLorme thinks he knows why. It’s called the CCHS iPad Initiative, where every student at the school receives an iPad for […]
Carson Keim, 5, of Waterford, reacts with wild enthusiasm to a distance shot taken on the pumpkin roll hill at the Sept. 8 Antioch (Ill.) Fall Fest, with encouragement from onlookers, including his brother, Everett, 8 (kneeling). (Photo by Earlene Frederick)
LarryVille Farm’s Michelle Cannon (left) Hands a bag of tomatoes to M.T. Boyle at the Burlington Farmers Market last week. The market, held Thursday afternoons at Wehmhoff Square, runs through October. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)
Kailey Harris, 8, (above) bounces her way down an inflatable slide at the St. Mary’s Fall Fest Saturday. The three-day event feature food, music, games and auctions. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)
Pilot from Chicago dies in mid-Sunday crash A Chicago area pilot is dead after the plane he was flying crashed and burned in a residential yard near Eagle Lake in the Town of Dover about noon Sunday. The pilot, John “David” Brock, 66, was the only occupant of the plane. […]
Burlington Area School District Superintendent Peter Smet walks with a group of kindergarteners to the first day of classes at Cooper School in Burlington Tuesday. It was also a first day of sorts for Smet, who became superintendent in July after serving for many years as the district’s business administrator. […]
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