Year: 2017

Burlington

Getting out of the gas business

Longtime station will focus on service, towing after shutting off pumps By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Tuesday will officially be remembered as the day the gas pumps ran dry at Merten’s service station in Burlington. The station, at 389 Milwaukee Ave., has been pumping gasoline since 1959. “That’s when […]

Obituaries

WAYNE A. KOEPKE

      Wayne A. Koepke, 85, of Union Grove, passed away Oct. 24, 2017. He was born February 26, 1932 to Franklin and Irma (nee Pelchen) Koepke in Cold Spring. He was a proud Navy Veteran who served in Norfolk, Va., during the Korean War from 1951 to 1955. Wayne married […]

Obituaries

DENNIS GEORGE ACKER

      Dennis George Acker, age 65, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Wednesday Oct. 25, 2017. Dennis was born Oct. 16, 1952, to the late Ivan and Joanne (nee. Peplinski) Acker. After graduating from Waterford High School, Dennis worked as a telecommunications technician for 42 years […]

Obituaries

JANE E. McCOURT

      Jane E. McCourt, 92, of Burlington, passed away peacefully, with family by her side, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, at Waterford Senior Living. She was born in Kansasville, on Aug. 4, 1925, to Lawrence and Florence (nee Reuschlein) Daniels. She spent her early life in Kansasville where she attended grade school […]

Union Grove

Pumpkin pie in the face

Jessica Schnick works on her pie with no hands during the pie-eating contest at the Pumpkin Chuckin’ Festival at the Racine County Fairgrounds on Sunday. The event was part of the Great Pumpkin Chuckin’ Fest, sponsored by the Greater Union Grove Area Chamber of Commerce. (Photo by Toni Schneider)

Union Grove

Union Grove man charged in bar brawl

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 2 for a Union Grove man charged with beating two people in a “mob-mentality” fight outside a Racine bar in September. Marshawn J. Thurman, 27, was charged Oct. 23 in Racine County Circuit Court with two counts of substantial battery as a party […]