The Great Pumpkin Chuckin Fest will take place in Union Grove on Saturday and Sunday at the Racine County Fairgrounds. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The schedule is as follows: Little Sprout Stage Saturday 10 a.m. – […]
Sports & Other News
Man charged with stealing racing bike
A Rochester man charged with stealing a $30,000 motorcycle in Waterford was bound over for trial following a preliminary hearing on Oct. 17. Patrick James Bennett, 33, was charged Oct. 5 in Racine County Circuit Court with burglary of a building or dwelling and two counts of receiving stolen property, […]
Tractorcade
Tractors make their way along a 28-mile route around Waterford on Oct. 14 during the Lions Club of Waterford’s annual Tractorcade. (Photo by Tyler Myrick)
Rib Festival moved to Oct. 27
Event will share the day with annual Spooky City activities By Jason Arndt Editor The date of the City of Burlington’s second annual Autumn Rib Festival has been moved to Saturday, Oct. 27. The event was originally scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 20, but city officials decided Friday to postpone it […]
Costs exceed budget for Lewis Street wall project
Reconstruction complications add more than $58,000 to bill By Jason Arndt Editor While the Lewis Street wall was under reconstruction this past summer, contractors were hampered with two unexpected circumstances, which left the City of Burlington covering cost overruns. Although the city was reimbursed for the first unexpected circumstance, which […]
FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS: 3 state champions provide huge roadblock to Burlington football playoff hopes
Demons open postseason Friday in Brookfield For the second straight season, the road was anything but smooth for Steve Tenhagen and the Burlington Demon football team. In 2017, a team spearheaded by multi-dimensional athletes Grant Tully and Nick Klug battled through injuries to Klug and came out on the […]
Victim in fatal crash identified
The Racine County Sheriff’s Department has identified the woman who died Tuesday in a crash with a semi truck on Highway 20 in the Town of Dover as Allison Olesinski, 23, of North Prairie. According to her obituary, Olesinski was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was studying […]
Gateway to host fire, EMS recruitment event
The Gateway Technical College Fire Program is partnering with fire departments throughout Kenosha, Racine, and Walworth counties to recruit new firefighters and emergency medical technicians. Gateway will host a recruitment event on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the HERO Center, 380 McCanna Parkway, Burlington. Participants […]
Your chance to learn about the referendum
BASD hosts open house sessions for district voters By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Burlington Area School District residents have a chance to learn more about the district’s Nov. 6 referendum during a series of open house sessions that began this week. The first session was held Tuesday and the […]
In this week’s Standard Press…
School Board members have been working more than a year to craft a referendum that addresses the Burlington Area School District’s facility needs and has a chance to garner approval of local voters on Nov. 6. So what’s in the $43.7 million proposal and how much will it cost […]
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