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All things bright and beautiful

Racine County’s rural roads are ablaze with color, as maples, birches and oaks dazzle passersby with a display of foliage in bright golden, orange and red hues. Scientists say the brilliant colors occur when production of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants crucial to photosynthesis, slows down as days get […]

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Kings of the Crop Walk

Eli (from left), Rob and Aidan King get ready to participate in the Crop Walk to end world hunger Sunday in Burlington. Participants registered at Cross Lutheran Church and then ventured out on a walking route in the city. (Photo by Jennifer Eisenbart)

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Firefighters corral barn blaze

Firefighters from Rochester and Waterford survey the remains of an old barn destroyed Monday afternoon in a fire at 736 N. Browns Lake Drive, Rochester. Rochester Fire Chief Jack Biermann said the blaze started after sparks from a pile of debris burning about 20 to 25 feet away were carried […]

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A patriot honored

            Jeremy Morris, of Virginia, performs a solemn salute at the gravesite of his relative and Revolutionary War patriot, Andrew Lytle, Jr., during the final Wisconsin Historical Marker Program held at United Presbyterian Cemetery in Dover on Sept. 17.   Lytle, born in 1762, came to Wisconsin with his son […]