By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor Jillian Leighton smiled Friday afternoon, even as the event she was waiting for at Walmart took a little while to get started. Due to a traffic accident in downtown Burlington, the “cops” portion of “Shop With a Cop” were a little late to arrive – though […]
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Policing change ready to go in Waterford
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent With one week before the monumental switchover, officials in the Village and Town of Waterford are gearing up for a new era in law enforcement services. The Waterford Village Board in early June decided to unwind a decades-long arrangement that called on a Racine County Sheriff’s […]
Girl who lost best friend in New Year’s Eve crash moves beyond injuries
By Jennifer Eisenbart EDITOR For 13-year-old Kayla Brown, New Year’s Eve isn’t a high-profile day – she normally just hangs out with friends. She remembers nothing from the day in 2014 – only from the day before, spending time at her friend Samantha Russell’s home after they went shopping at […]
Burlington fire chief will resign, city says
City’s first full-time chief presided over contentious two years By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor City of Burlington Mayor Bob Miller announced Tuesday night that Fire Chief Perry Howard will resign in June of 2016. In a news release distributed Tuesday evening, Miller stated the city and Howard had “worked out an […]
Girl’s viral plea for cards reaches Washington-Caldwell
By Maureen Vandersanden Correspondent Students at Washington-Caldwell School joined thousands of others from across the country in making one young girl’s Christmas wish come true. Eight-year old Safyre Terry, Schenectady, N.Y., who lost her entire family to arson on May 2, 2013 and was left severely burned herself, made a […]
Christmas Eve ‘in the barn’ set at Squire farm
A live nativity will be held Thursday on Christmas Eve at Squire’s farm, 27615 Church Road, Burlington. The services run every half hour from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The public is invited to this free event. English Settlement Church members and friends will play angels, shepherds, wise men and […]
Teen charged for having sex with 15-year-old girls
A Burlington teenager – who admitted to police he was already on probation for having sex with an underage female – is now charged with felony sexual assault after having sex with two 15-year-olds. Dave Fenlon, 17, was charged last week in Racine County Circuit Court with three counts of […]
Appraisals in village still not finished
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent Slightly more than half of the Village of Waterford’s housing stock was comprehensively inspected during the much-maligned re-evaluation process this year, municipal officials announced this week. Associated Appraisal, the firm contracted to inspect the exterior and interior of homes, reviewed all exterior properties, but company staffers […]
Two men die in Dover crash
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor In what Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling called a “horrific scene,” two area men died Tuesday morning after a crash on Highway 75 in the Town of Dover. Jarett Heck, 20, of Salem, and Zachary Faulhaber, 22, of Kansasville, were pronounced dead at the scene, according […]
Baumhardt is Burlington’s newest sergeant
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor In the grand cascade that has reorganized the City of Burlington police department in the past year, the latest promotion occurred the first week of December. Matthew Baumhardt, an officer who had been with the department since 2011, was officially sworn in as the department’s newest […]
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