Demons show potential to contend in SLC By Mike Ramczyk [email protected] The Burlington High School gymnasium scoreboard read 0.0 seconds Thursday night. For a brief moment, Wilmot girls basketball players walked off the floor relieved to have held on and knocked off the pesky Demons, thus maintaining their perfect […]
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Coach Parker discusses thrilling battle with Wilmot
Sports Editor Mike Ramczyk interviews Burlington High School girls basketball coach Mary Parker following her team’s thrilling battle with unbeaten Southern Lakes Conference leader Wilmot on Thursday at BHS. The Demons lost the game by two points, but turned in a competitive performance that few expected against the touted Panthers. […]
Town official convicted of drunken driving
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor A Waterford Town Board member who will be running for re-election this spring was recently convicted of drunken driving. According to a report filed by the Racine County Sheriff’s Department, Timothy Szeklinski, 45, was arrested for his first offense of operating while intoxicated on Oct. 2. […]
Icy snow piles cause blood to boil
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor The amalgamation of snow, ice and sleet that pelted Burlington Dec. 28 and 29 left the city with a clean up quandary – and at least one resident and business owner steamed. Dale Bruesewitz came to the City of Burlington Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday […]
Green Bay Packers causing me early mid-life crisis
Team opens playoffs Sunday against Redskins Ah, our beloved Green Bay Packers. Titletown. The Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field, a virtual Mecca of America’s favorite sport. For the past three decades, thanks to consecutive Hall-of-Fame-caliber quarterbacks, along with strong management and a dedicated, die-hard fan base, the Packers have […]
Bird remains undefeated after Bi-States championship
Burlington senior beat top competition in dominant fashion By Mike Ramczyk Sports Editor Is it possible that Burlington wrestler Josh Bird ever gets sick of winning? While most grapplers are front row at events watching their teammates, the fact that Bird spends most of his time waiting for the […]
Local student suffers serious injuries in crash
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor By Mike Ramczyk Sports Editor In the space of time it took to turn a vehicle around Friday, Austin Neuhaus almost lost his life. The Genoa City resident and Catholic Central High School junior was on the way to a friend’s house at about noon on […]
Four men drown on lake in East Troy
By Tracy Ouellette STAFF WRITER As of Wednesday morning, the bodies of three of the four men who took a canoe out on Mill Lake in the early hours of Jan. 3 and went missing had been recovered while dive teams continued to search for the missing fourth man. Mill […]
CCHS to present ‘Usher — a Totally Teen Comedy’
Catholic Central High School student Melissa Schoedel balances a book on her head in the school’s performance of “Usher – a Totally Teen Comedy.” The play takes a mix of Edgar Allen Poe’s writing and characters and weaves them together into a teen-savvy comedy loosely based on “The Fall […]
Large family leads to whopper of a lie
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor If liars – and lies – come in all shapes and sizes, the entries in this year’s Burlington Liars Club competition certainly ran the gamut. And for a Waupaca man who allegedly grew up in a large family, the size of his family gave him the […]
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