By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor In a week where most political pundits were predicting Wisconsin could turn the tide of the Republican Presidential nomination, one of the party’s biggest local supporters died without seeing all the action. Bob Geason, who spent his early years in Union Grove before moving to Burlington, […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor The Burlington Area School District on Monday took the next step in providing students one-to-one computer technology. BASD Technology Director Scott Christensen gave an update at Monday’s Burlington Area School District Finance Committee on the three-year lease of equipment the district is pursuing, with the committee […]

  By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor Back when Jeannie Hefty was first mayor – and riding with the Burlington Area Rescue Squad – she would never call in on the rescue squad radio using her name. The joke, explained Troy Everson Tuesday night as Hefty won the City of Burlington mayoral […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor When Donna McKusker found out she was the Burlington Kiwanis 2016 Frank Tobin award winner, her first question was, “Why?” “When you do something like Special Olympics, you do it because you really want to do it,” McKusker said. “And you get so much more back […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor The way Amy Zott looks at her situation right now, she feels she has a choice. A long-time attorney in Burlington, she was diagnosed last summer with pancreatic cancer. The cancer was already in stage 4B, and she was given six months to a year to […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor While the City of Burlington Common Council may see a change in mayor next week, depending on the outcome of that race, all four seats on the council itself are unopposed. In fact, Aldermanic District 1 – a year after a late step-up by John Ekes […]

A significant fire department presence – which including the City and Town of Burlington, Rochester, Lake Geneva, Twin Lakes and Lyons fire departments plus various rescue squads – ended up at Nestle USA Friday morning. According to a press release from the City of Burlington, the city received a report […]

By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor A pair of candidates are fighting for the open Racine County Court Branch 4 seat, and both have run for the office before. Mark Nielsen of Racine and Joseph Seifert of Raymond are the two options for the spot left open by John Jude, who announced […]

A 2-year-old Burlington boy died March 24 in what law enforcement officials are calling an accident. Wyatt Johansen’s death was handled by the Racine County Sheriff’s Department, although Town of Waterford police would normally have handled the call. Town of Waterford Police Chief Tom Ditscheit said his squads were administering […]

The Racine County Bar Association released the results of its judicial qualification poll Tuesday, with Mark Nielsen easily leading the poll. Members of the bar association were asked to vote on the qualifications of the two candidates for Racine County Circuit Court Judge Branch 4 – Joseph Seifert and Nielsen. […]