Category: News
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Silver Lake Memorial Day parade slated
The annual Silver Lake Schulz-Hahn American Legion Post No. 293 Memorial Day Parade will be held on Monday, May 28. Those interested in participating in the parade are welcome and should be at Riverview School, 300 E. Prosser St., Silver Lake, by 8:15 a.m. on Monday morning. The parade will begin at 9 a.m. Monday…
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Paddock Lake raises boat launch fees to cover costs
By Gail Peckler-Dziki ~ Correspondent The recent hike in the Paddock Lake boat launch parking lot fee of $3, from $2 to $5, was the culmination of three years of board discussion, according to Village President Marlene Goodson and Village Administrator Tim Popanda. The cost of an annual pass is $35 for one lake and…
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Paddock Lake water rates to increase $1.83 per quarter
By Gail Peckler Dziki ~ Correspondent The Paddock Lake Village Board voted unanimously to raise water rates from $30 a quarter to $31.83. Trustee Jake Hansen was absent/excused. The rate increase is effective April 1 of 2012, to be billed in June of 2012. Trustee Terry Burns commented that the last time water rates were…
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Village’s fifth season to begin: road construction
By Annette Newcomb ~ Editor If it’s spring in Wisconsin, that must be hot asphalt you smell. During Monday’s regular board meeting the Twin Lakes Village Board approved the village engineer’s recommendations for the 2012 street resurfacing project. The village accepted a low bid of $168,217.50 from B.R. Amon and Sons from Elkhorn. Payne and…
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Movies in the Parks begins Friday night
The Village of Twin Lakes Park Commission and this season’s sponsor, Baxter and Woodman Consulting Engineers, announce the start of the 2012 season for the Movies in the Parks program. Free movies are presented every other Friday night beginning Memorial Day weekend in the outdoor amphitheater on the shores of Lake Mary at Lance Park,…
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Legion to host service, parade on Monday morning
The Twin Lakes American Legion family of Post 544 will be hosting its annual Memorial Day parade on Monday, May 28. Parade participants will gather at Lance Park between 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., and step off will be at 11 a.m. The route will take the parade from Lake Park to the American Legion…
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Lakewood prepares for budget issues
By Gail Peckler-Dziki ~ Correspondent Lakewood Elementary School held a special meeting May 11 for non-renewals of staff. District Administrator Joe Price said that the school is bound by statue to issue preliminary non-renewal in late April, with final non-renewals by May 15. “We will have preliminary school aid figures by July 1,” he explained.…
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All the way!
Grant Dull, a former Wilmot Panther who played his senior year at North Crawford High School, goes up against Green Bay Packer safety Morgan Burnett. Dull was selected to the Southwest Senior All-stars and played in a game against the Green Bay Packers’ “Green Machine” on April 26 at the Richland Center Fieldhouse. Honorary team…
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Artists of the Week!
Lilly Silva (from left), a kindergarten student at Lakewood School in Twin Lakes, is Artist of the week for her incredible rainy day drawing. Sean O’Dowd, fourth grade, is artist of the week for his skillfully crafted Dreamcatcher and first-grader Olivia Pellegrin, is Artist of the Week for her beautiful veggie garden painting. Students are…
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Kids help St. Jude’s
Students at Messiah Christian Preschool in Twin Lakes recently raised $2,160 for the St Jude’s Hospital, making a total of $38,200 raised by the preschool since 1996. The children learned about bicycle safety as they road through a course set up in the church parking lot. Susan Pralle’s class also used the time for a…