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 […]
Sports & Other News
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 […]
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 […]
Burlington baseball advances to 3rd straight sectional championship
(1) Kenosha Tremper (21-4) vs. (2) Burlington (19-7), 4 p.m., tonight, Kenosha Tremper High School By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] KENOSHA – Trey Krause pitched like the ace he is, and the Burlington bats eventually erupted in a WIAA Division 1 sectional semifinal Tuesday at Kenosha Tremper’s Alan Smith Field. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hot enough to melt (but it didn’t)
ChocolateFest is able to endure record heat to finish in the black By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief With temperatures more suited for melting rather than savoring chocolate, Burlington’s ChocolateFest withstood a string of 90-degree days last weekend to finish in the black for 2018. Festival President Bil Scherrer on […]
Local man dies in crash with dump truck
A Burlington man died Thursday afternoon when the SUV he was driving collided head-on with a dump truck on Highway P in the Town of Burlington. William D. Rachel, 50, of the City of Burlington, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which occurred on a section of […]
State bound: Burlington’s Goliath-slaying campaign culminates with 3rd win over mighty Westosha, sectional championship
Klein allows three runs to Central all year, SLC team makes state 9th straight year By Jason Arndt [email protected] Before the season, if someone would have told Burlington High School senior Jaina Westphal her team would be competing for a shot at a state softball berth, the Demon second […]
Ready for splashdown
New Burlington Community Aquatic center opens Friday By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief On Friday, a year and a half after they overwhelmingly approved spending more than $5 million to replace their 51-year-old pool, City of Burlington residents will get a chance to take the plunge into the cooling waters […]
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