By Chris Bennett Sports Correspondent The Waterford Union High School softball team announced its award winners after a season in which the consistent growth of a young team meant as much as winning games. Junior Myranda Schuttenhelm repeated as the team’s Most Valuable Player. Gabi LePine earned the Most Improved […]
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Sex offender charged after approaching kids at bus stop
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor A convicted sex offender was arrested and charged Monday afternoon after approaching students at a bus stop near Cooper Elementary School. According a criminal complaint filed in Racine County Tuesday afternoon, Leon Hopson, 29, was charged with two felonies of misidentifying himself, as he is a […]
Hitting the road
Participants in the annual Special Olympics Torch Run get ready to take off from the Burlington Kwik Trip on the north side of the city. The run went from the north side Kwik Trip to the south side Kwik Trip, bringing in law enforcement and service agency participants from all […]
Overachieving season ends for young soccer squad
By Tim Wester Sports Correspondent Big and physical opponents have been tough on the Union Grove girls’ soccer team this season. Unfortunately for the Broncos, it was another big and physical team that ended their season. New Berlin West’s superior size and strength proved to be the […]
Family retires scholarship for special ed. students
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor Almost three decades worth of giving back to an education program that helped thousands has reached its sunset. The end of the 2015-16 school year will mark the official end of the Chris Roanhouse Award, given each year to a special education student for post high […]
DEMON-ATION: Burlington dispatches Kenosha Bradford, advances to 3rd state tournament
WIAA SECTIONAL FINAL: Burlington 6, Kenosha Bradford 1 3rd-seeded Demons rout way through sectional By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] “This team is special, let’s keep climbing.” Burlington High School baseball head coach Scott Staude said these words with conviction in a huddle near home plate, while cameras flashed from […]
City of Burlington sends two high school baseball squads to sectionals
By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] For the first time since 2010, both the Burlington Catholic Central and Burlington High School baseball teams will play in WIAA sectionals. The Hilltoppers play in a Division 4 sectional today at noon at Johnson Creek High School. The third-seeded Toppers smashed No. 2 Barneveld, […]
Burlington girls soccer captures historic championship
Mundt scores four goals, Oliver, Jachim stop Waterford attack By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] BURLINGTON – Late last year, a foundation was built for the future of Burlington soccer. The Burlington Youth Soccer program will be partnering with the Croatian Eagles Soccer Club and Burlington High School to form Burlington […]
Summer concert series opens this week
The Burlington area summer concert series B-Town Sounds returns starting next Thursday. All concerts are at Echo Park in the pavilion, with an event every other week. The concerts are free, with parking at Veterans Terrace and adjourning lots. This year’s bands are: June 9 – “American Folk,” bluegrass June […]
Waterford to introduce new incident procedure in fall
By Dave Fidlin CORRESPONDENT As school shootings, bomb threats and other potentially catastrophic events occur at schools across the nation at a growing rate, Waterford Graded school officials have examined the district’s policies and procedures for most of this school year. The outgrowth of those efforts is ALiCE, a program […]
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