Tougher safety belt enforcement pending in state
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, May 17, 2013
MADISON -- Wisconsin drivers and passengers should buckle up or they will have a better chance to get a ticket under a new statewide crackdown.
Visionary Artists to feature 'Alphabet of Art' at Hoard Museum
By WHITEWATER ARTS ALLIANCE - Friday, May 17, 2013
The "Visions: A-Z" exhibit at the Hoard Museum of Fort Atkinson in June will showcase “art inspired by the alphabet” – a remarkable and wide-ranging view of the same alphabet - by Visionary Artists Joyce Follis, Marilyn Fuerstenberg, Barbara Grant, Tom Jewell, Mary Nevicosi and Karolyn Alexander Tscharnack. The Visionary Artists show runs Saturday June 8 to Friday June 28 and is open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays at the Hoard Museum, 401 Whitewater Avenue, Fort Atkinson.
No-Call List deadline approaching
By WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION - Friday, May 17, 2013
MADISON -- The quarterly deadline for Wisconsin’s No Call List is May 31. All registrations that are added on or before that day will receive protections from unwanted phone solicitations and text messages beginning on July 1.
Take part in Lake Geneva’s parking survey
By STAFF - Friday, May 17, 2013
LAKE GENEVA -- Lake Geneva is encouraging drivers who live, work or visit downtown to take a parking survey on the city’s website.
Chocolate Fest: one sweet celebration in Burlington
By STAFF - Friday, May 17, 2013
Peace, Love and Chocolate is the theme for this year’s Chocolate Fest, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend. The festival is an experience of all things chocolate.
Badger High School team wins National Restaurant Association competition
By STAFF - Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Wisconsin team from Badger High School in Lake Geneva won first place in the 12th Annual National ProStart Invitational Management Competition held in Baltimore, Maryland, last month. The ProStart Invitational is a high school culinary and foodservice management competition presented by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation.
McHenry County drug court’s first ‘graduates’ ready to begin again
By STAFF - Thursday, May 16, 2013
MCHENRY COUNTY, ILL. -- McHenry County’s drug court is seeing its first five graduates in a program that promises another opportunity, according to a story in the Northwest Herald.
State budget committee OKs stewardship reductions
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, May 16, 2013
MADISON -- The Legislature's Republican-controlled budget committee has approved a plan that would dramatically scale back the Department of Natural Resources' ability to borrow to buy land through the state's stewardship program.
Baseball exhibit travels to Miller Park
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory is bringing its traveling exhibit to Miller Park.
Band with DDHS, EAHS members a finalist in Launchpad
By STAFF - Thursday, May 16, 2013
Relatively Blue, a blues group featuring students from Delavan-Darien High School and Elkhorn Area High School, will be heading to Madison on June 8 as a finalist for the Les Paul Launchpad Award.
Sign-up deadline extended for Kenosha job fair
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thursday, May 16, 2013
MADISON -- Wisconsin officials say job seekers have until Friday to register for a career fair scheduled for next week.
St. Patrick Parish School to close in Elkhorn
By STAFF - Thursday, May 16, 2013
ELKHORN -- The pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Elkhorn announced the parish school would be closing at the end of this school year.
Northwestern Wisconsin wildfire consumes 8,700 acres
By CARRIE ANTLFINGER, ASSOCIATED PRESS, STAFF - Thursday, May 16, 2013
Authorities are investigating whether logging operations may have sparked a massive wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that destroyed dozens of buildings and forced at least 60 people from their homes, state officials said Wednesday.
Planting a legacy at Kishwauketoe
By STAFF - Thursday, May 16, 2013
Students from Williams Bay Elementary School got a hands-on lesson in planting trees at Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy in Williams Bay on Monday, May 13.
Participants needed in DNR program to track turtles
By WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
MADISON -- Wisconsin motorists and others can join a new effort to help reverse the decline in turtle populations by helping identify the deadliest road crossings for turtles so that crossing safety measures can be taken to help save turtles.
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