City of Burlington police are looking for a black male suspected of stealing a 2016 Yukon Denali early Monday morning. The Denali, valued at $72,000, and $8,500 of Bridgestone tires were taken at about 3:10 a.m. Monday. Surveillance video shows a black male breaking the Lynch service bay window and […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor Owner Shad Branen stopped by the City of Burlington Committee of the Whole meeting last week to announce the first tenants at a prominent downtown retail building. The former Schuette-Daniels Furniture store – now known as The Mercantile – will house both a wedding reception/meeting venue […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor A new learning environment for the Burlington High School Architecture, Construction and Engineering Academy students was approved Monday night. The Burlington Area School District School Board Buildings, Grounds and Transportation Committee approved the $306,502 project, which involves moving the students out of a 1,200-square-foot classroom at […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor With costs now before the Burlington Area School District School Board, the narrowing of options on the district’s facilities study is about to start. After a presentation by Nick Kent of Plunkett Raysich Architects Monday night, the board set an Oct. 31 meeting date to narrow […]

New facility has seen booming attendance, strong revenues By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor As Nov. 8 draws near and more people in the City of Burlington start to weigh in on the possibly of a new community pool, local officials have turned to their neighbor to the west for some advice […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor A planned new access for KW Precast met with pushback from Spring Valley Road residents Tuesday night at the City of Burlington Plan Commission meeting. “I’ve never seen anything more ridiculous in my life,” said Jack Sommers, a resident of Spring Valley Road. Representatives from KW […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor With the candidates the same as two years ago, the 63rd Assembly District debate had something of a familiar feel Oct. 5. Both incumbent Robin Vos and challenger Andy Mitchell spoke along familiar lines last week at the debate, sponsored by the American Association of University […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart EDITOR The t-shirts for the event read simply, “An Unforgettable Experience, Roskilde-Burlington, 2016.” “2.0.” The second visit of students from Roskilde to Burlington took place last week, with students arriving Oct. 5 and leaving Sunday morning. In between, students stayed with host families, attended classes at Burlington […]

Main Street will be closed completely as well as a lane closure on State Street Tuesday, Oct. 18, so We Energies can replace a pole next to the Mobil Mart. Work will start at 7 a.m., with a rain date of Oct. 19.

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor As Kathy Spiegelhoff and nine other members of Friends of the Children group waited out Hurricane Matthew last week, the priest in whose home they were staying put the storm into perspective. “He said, ‘This is a windstorm, not an earthquake,’” Spiegelhoff recalled. Spiegelhoff arrived home […]