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Car crashes through store entrance

No serious injuries reported at Reinenman’s By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief As a longtime member of the Burlington Rescue Squad Jeff Koenen is accustomed to rushing to the scenes of car crashes. However, he never had a crash come directly to him – until Tuesday, that is. It was […]

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STATE SOFTBALL: Burlington ‘upsets’ #2 seed Chippewa Falls, plays Friday night in semifinal

Schmalfeldt’s 3-run blast sparks five-run first inning   By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] Apparently, someone didn’t get the memo about the Southern Lakes Conference. It makes sense, a little, that the Burlington Demon softball squad wasn’t seeded in the top four of the eight-team WIAA Division 1 state tournament, with its […]

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A massive undertaking

Railroad will connect Calumet Street to Bridge Street By Jason Arndt Staff Writer Eager to start construction on a large-scale project to connect little-used Calumet Street to the Bridge Street overpass, Canadian National Railway Co./Wisconsin Central Ltd. made a series of concessions Tuesday, which brought approval by the Burlington Common […]

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In this week’s Standard Press…

     It’s not often that schools have two different teams in the state tournament in the same season. Burlington High School joined those elite schools this week when its baseball team qualified for the state tournament for the third year in a row. The baseball team’s performance comes on the […]

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Burlington baseball trumps Tremper, clinches 3rd straight trip to state tournament

WIAA SECTIONAL BASEBALL: (2) Burlington 6, (1) Kenosha Tremper 3 Turzenski starts, Krause finishes as Demons capture 3rd straight sectional championship   By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] How’s this for coaching? The nails were bitten shorter, and the gray hairs were beginning to stand up for the lawn-chair sporting Burlington baseball […]

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Burlington soccer overcomes frightening injury to capture 3rd straight regional championship

Fifth-seeded Demons travel to No. 1 Waunakee Thursday at 6 By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] SAUK CITY – Sam Naber was straight killing it Saturday afternoon. The freshman attacking midfielder, one of Burlington soccer’s strongest two-way threats, only needed 10 minutes to exert her will in a WIAA Division 1 regional […]

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B-Town Sounds returns June 14

Outdoor concert series features seven shows in 2018 The B-Town Sounds concert series is slated to return June 14 for another season of pairing live music and craft beer with summer nights in Burlington’s Echo Park. This year’s seven-show lineup features a full spectrum of music from bluegrass to country […]