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.
Area students will clean grave sites, honor Spring Grove vets
By STAFF - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Some 60 volunteers from St. Andrew School in Delavan and community members will clean Spring Grove Cemetery in Delavan on Friday, May 17, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Students are sprucing up the cemetery for Memorial Day. For information on volunteering, call Ken Wargo at (262) 215-9890.
Gypsy moth aerial spraying to start soon
By WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
MADISON -- Some Wisconsin residents will see and hear loud, low-flying planes at around sunrise beginning in late May. Planes will be spraying for gypsy moth caterpillars, an invasive and destructive pest that feeds on the leaves of many species of trees and shrubs.
Purple boxes in trees mean traps for emerald ash borers
By WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
MADISON -- If you see a purple box hanging in a tree this summer, just let it be. That's a request from local, state and federal officials overseeing Wisconsin's efforts to deal with the emerald ash borer, or EAB.
Packers Family Night is Aug. 3
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
GREEN BAY -- The Green Bay Packers have set the date for the popular intra-squad scrimmage in August.
Raw milk advocates plan rally outside trial
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
MILWAUKEE -- Hundreds of raw milk advocates are expected to attend a Wisconsin dairy farmer's trial next week in Baraboo, where supporters have rented a nearby theater to monitor the proceedings and hold a rally.
Poll: Two-thirds of Wisconsin voters back more school funding
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
MILWAUKEE -- A new Marquette University law school poll says two-thirds of Wisconsin voters favor increasing funding for public schools.
Delavan-Darien students will receive tablets, laptops in fall of 2013
By DELAVAN-DARIEN SCHOOL DISTRICT - Wednesday, May 15, 2013
DELAVAN -- On May 13, the Delavan-Darien School District Board of Education approved a one-to-one electronics device initiative that will put a laptop or tablet computer in the hands of all students in the district shortly after the start of the 2013-14 school year.
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