By Chris Bennett Sports Correspondent The Waterford Union High School football team will not lack motivation when it hosts Wauwatosa West at home tonight in a Level 1 WIAA Division 2 playoff game. “We’re going to focus on the fact that they don’t think going 8-1 and being […]
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PLAYOFF PREDICTIONS: Flip of coin drops undefeated Catholic Central to No. 2 seed
The final Friday night of regular season high school football was worth all the hype. There was plenty of history made, a ridiculously impossible comeback and a considerable upset. Catholic Central won its first conference title since 2010, and Union Grove earned its first playoff berth since 2009. Lake […]
Warm glow for cold hands
Participants in the tri-parish Lifeteen Cold Hands Warm Heart fundraiser gather around a burn barrel Oct. 17 at St. Charles Catholic Church in Burlington. Seventy-eight students from St. Charles, St. Mary and St. Joseph, Lyons, parishes slept out in cardboard boxes the parking lot as a one-night homeless simulation that […]
Washington-Caldwell budget falls into place
By Dave Fidlin Correspondent In stark contrast to the distress signal sounded last year by Washington-Caldwell school officials, this year’s district budget is more status quo. Full details of this year’s operating budget and property tax levy will be shared with the public at the district’s annual meeting this coming […]
AT&T in Burlington robbed
Two men – one armed with a semi-automatic handgun – robbed the Burlington AT&T Wireless Logic store on Milwaukee Avenue Thursday evening. According to a press release issued by the City of Burlington police department, the two suspects entered the store shortly after 7 p.m. and ordered employees onto […]
Missing a cat? Call Love Inc.
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor Employees at Love Inc. in Burlington are looking for someone who donated a brown couch last week – and is missing the black-and-white cat that hitched a ride in it. The cat was found in the couch Oct. 15 when employees brought the overnight donation into […]
Burlington volleyball cruises to second straight conference crown
Top-seeded Lady Demons open playoffs Saturday night in Burlington By Mike Ramczyk Sports Editor On Sept. 29, the Burlington High School volleyball team reached rock bottom. Decimated by injuries to starters Quinn Spieker and Reba Thomsen, the freshmen-and-sophomore-led Westosha Central Falcons came into the BHS gymnasium and shook up […]
School district OKs teachers’ contract
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor The 2015-16 contract between the Burlington Area School District and the Burlington Education Association – the teachers union – was approved by the School Board Oct. 12. The contract gives a 1.62 percent increase in base salary per cell – which Superintendent Peter Smet said was […]
Watch out for soaring squash at the annual Great Pumpkin Chuckin Fest
By Maureen Vander Sanden Correspondent The Greater Union Grove Area Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for a smashing good time Saturday, Oct. 24 and Sunday, Oct. 25 when it hosts its annual Great Pumpkin Chuckin Fest at the Racine County Fairgrounds. “The Great Pumpkin Chuckin Fest is the best […]
Tattoo shop closes after withdrawing application
By Jennifer Eisenbart Editor Fat Daddyz Tats in Burlington officially reached the end of its lifespan Oct. 13. The business, which closed its doors a day earlier, came off the city tax rolls when the City of Burlington Plan Commission denied Mary Ann Sander’s conditional use application. The vote was […]
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