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Friday, May 3, 2024
News from the Burlington area
Haylofters’ adult-themed show plays on stereotypes By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer As one of the main characters in “The Great American Trailer Park Musical” will explain, not every stereotype about a trailer park is true. Just, as it turns out, most of them. With off-color and offbeat humor poking fun […]
Officials discuss whether to offer it again next year By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer When City of Burlington Alderman Ruth Dawidziak was asked to share a story she’d been told at last week’s City Council meeting, she broke into tears midway through. Dawidziak had described a young boy coming up […]
Local officials don’t see any changes in the meantime By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer For now, it’s situation normal, all up in the air both in the state of Wisconsin – and in Burlington Area School District, at least when it comes to Act 10. With legal action now pending […]
Extreme weather takes its toll on specialty varieties at local orchard By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer As you walk into the barn at Brightonwoods Orchard on highways 142 and B just south of Burlington, you can see the effect an early spring and dry summer has had on the apple […]
A Burlington area man is dead and another in critical condition Friday night after a piece of farming equipment tipped over on an area farm Friday afternoon. According to Catholic Central High School officials, Clayton Weis – who drove school buses for athletic events for the school – died Friday […]
School Board members weigh in on spouses serving as citizen representatives By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer What exactly constitutes a conflict of interest? Depending upon whom you talk to now in the Burlington Area School District, it might be who has applied to be citizen representatives on the BASD […]
Facing repairs, sewer hook up, owner says ‘it’s time’ By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer Since March of 1976, a small building on the corner of highways 36 and W in Burlington has housed a family restaurant – one full of memories, style and attitude. The doors on those memories will […]
Marcia Carmichael, historical gardener at Old World Wisconsin and author of “Putting Down Roots: Gardening Insights from Wisconsin’s Early Settlers” will give a presentation on Saturday at the Burlington Public Library. The program, which is free and open to the public, begins at 1 p.m. at the library, 166 E. […]
By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer After coming up with a variety of solutions other than the one presented to be voted on Tuesday night, the City of Burlington Common Council finally tabled a proposal to place T-turnarounds in the Spring Brook Landing development. At the Sept. 4 Committee of the […]
By Jennifer Eisenbart Staff Writer The Burlington Area School District is ready to close the chapter on its 2011 Wisconsin Knowledge and Concept Exam scores. That doesn’t mean, however, that the district didn’t learn a few lessons from lower-than-expected test scores. Last year, the WKCE exams were given in November. […]
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