Maxwell Street Days feature communitywide rummage sales, special vendors Shoppers get ready because the Burlington Chamber of Commerce is again hosting its annual Maxwell Street Days featuring sidewalk sales, special vendors and communitywide rummage and yard sales. The event begins at 9 a.m. both Friday and Saturday. In addition to […]

  By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] Every little bit helps in desperate times, and area churches stepped up to help the community last week. Wendy Bell, a member of LifeBridge Church, said Tuesday she and a group of six other women rallied to help flood victims near the Fox River by […]

Samaritan’s Purse, other groups provide supplies, comfort   By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] Deborah Cooper, a representative from Samaritan’s Purse, said cleanup crews worked July 19 with flood victims on Maryland and Fox streets in Burlington. And on Wednesday, two weeks after a record flood ravaged the area, crews were still […]

Just two years after it was refinished, the Burlington Area School District has been forced to approve an emergency appropriation of more than $47,000 to repair the gymnasium floor at Burlington High School. Sections of the finish coat are coming off the floor, presenting a hazard for students and others […]

  Response to flooding was aided by sessions in emergency management By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief In May several Burlington city leaders joined their counterparts from throughout Racine County at a disaster-training course in Maryland. Little did they know that two months later they’d put that training to the […]

Officials want to review finances before considering liquor license By Jason Arndt Staff Writer Members of the Burlington Common Council decided to table a decision related to issuing a full liquor license to a Waterford couple who have plans to create the city’s first duckpin bowling center. Common Council members […]

“I don’t know what to do right now. Some day, I want to walk my girl down the aisle. That’s what keeps me fighting.” – Jeff Austwick       By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] “It’s my day today, it’s so hard for me not to have her.” Burlington resident Jeff […]

$50,000 still needed to complete project on blighted site   By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief With approval from the Department of Natural Resources to proceed with development of a park on a blighted piece of property adjacent to B.J. Wentker’s restaurant, Burlington Mayor Jeannie Hefty has issued a plea […]

“I’m bruised and cut and have muscles hurting I didn’t even know existed. I just don’t know what to do anymore. I’m lost, and I feel like I’m on autopilot.” – Nicole Gramhofer, who lost her home to the flood     By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] Nicole Gramhofer lives along […]