Author: Jason Arndt
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The sweetest of them all
Hafs Road Orchard touts apple packed with flavor By Jason Arndt Staff Writer Tucked away on a scenic road in Genoa City lies an orchard bursting with flavor and rich in history. Hafs Road Orchard, in operation since the 1930s when it had 400 trees, has expanded since Richard and Debbie Polansky bought the 14-acre…
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Vonco moving operations to Town of Salem
Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and a large contingent of other elected officials welcomed Vonco Products LLC as the first tenant of the future Salem Business Park Thursday. Vonco, a manufacturer of flexible packaging and promotional products, announced on Thursday they plan to move its business from Lake Villa, Ill. into an 80,500-square-foot facility at the…
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CROSS COUNTRY: Falcons’ Patel, Capra move to state
By Jason Arndt Staff Writer When Westosha Central High School senior Sheel Patel entered the cross country season, he had a mission to duplicate the performance of recent graduate Jacob Hebior, who was last year’s Southern Lakes Conference Runner of the Year and WIAA Division 1 sectional champion. Patel nearly accomplished that mission, after he…
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Pedestrian killed on Interstate 94
Details on victim’s identity unclear According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, a 36-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed in a single vehicle crash Thursday morning on Interstate 94 near Highway 158. The crash reportedly happened when a 2007 Acura SUV driven by a 30-year-old Milwaukee man heading southbound had struck the 36-year-old on the passenger…
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Pass game too much for Wilmot
Panthers upset at home By Jason Arndt Staff Writer Wilmot Union High School was not ready for Watertown’s prolific passing attack Oct. 21 at Bucci Field, where the Panthers hosted a WIAA Division 2 Level 1 regional contest. Entering play, the seventh-seeded Goslings had accrued more than 3,000 yards passing, an attack they used to…
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Falcons’ Muhlenbeck flying to the Fleet
Westosha Central senior verbally commits to Erskine By Jason Arndt Staff Writer In an announcement made via social media Sunday, Westosha Central High School senior Drake Muhlenbeck has committed to play men’s volleyball at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina. Muhlenbeck, a 6-foot-2 hitter, joins a team that captured The Conference Carolinas title in…
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VIDEOS: Former Riverview, current Wilmot student appears on WisconsinEye
By Jason Arndt Staff Writer Alexis Peterson, a former Riverview student and current Wilmot Union High School freshman recently made her hosting debut on WisconsinEye. WisconsinEye, a nonprofit organization launch in 2007, gives Wisconsin residents a nonpartisan look at unedited coverage of public policy debate and actions of elected officials modeled after C-SPAN, according to…
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U.S. Representative visits Child Place of Antioch
A Child’s Place of Antioch holds open house Saturday By Jason Arndt Staff Writer U.S. Representative Randy Hultgren, of the 14th District in Illinois, paid a visit to Antioch’s A Child’s Place Learning Center earlier this month to receive insight from the small business. The district is comprised of parts of McHenry, Kane, Lake, Kendall,…
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Nearly all local districts lose state aid
Declining enrollment, increased property values cited By Jason Arndt Staff Writer While eight of 11 Western Kenosha County school districts expect to receive less state aid this year, four of them will experience a drop of 10 percent or more, according to data released last week by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. The DPI,…
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Salem budget proposal includes small tax increase
By Gail Peckler-Dziki Correspondent The Salem Town Board held its first 2017 budget workshop last week, when Administrator Pat Casey presented a plan with slight increase in the tax levy. Casey proposed, and recommends, an overall levy increase of $85,330 from 2016, or 2.25 percent. The mill rate (cost per thousand) could increase from .003468…