Tag: Featured
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To honor
Members of the Kenosha Area Pipes and Drums Association perform during Kenosha’s Civic Veterans parade held June 29. This year’s parade theme was, “A Home Run for Hometown Pride.” The mission of the Kenosha Area Pipes and Drums Association is …”to honor our fallen law enforcement officers and firefighters who have given their lives in service…
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Buy your ‘lucky’ duck tickets for Saturday’s race
Make sure to buy your chances for the Libertyfest duck races. From 4 to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 5, numbered ducks will float to the finish line at Lance Park. Tickets are $5 for one or $10 for three. Cash prizes are $200, $100, $50 and three $25 winners. The duck races will help defray…
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Slow No Wake will stay in place through Libertyfest
Village of Twin Lakes officials announced Tuesday that high water levels in Lake Mary and Lake Elizabeth are expected to continue through next week and therefore the Slow No Wake will be in place over the Fourth of July weekend. Approximately 9 inches of rain plus run off since June 1 have swelled the lakes…
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It’s Thursday
Conductor Steve Porch takes the Lakes Area Community Band through their musical paces prior to the first It’s Thursday concert held at the Brook Bandshell, 900 Skidmore Dr., Antioch, on June 12. It has become a tradition for the band to kick off the summer series which continues through Aug. 14. For more information about…
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Rebels prepare for battle
You can’t celebrate the Fourth of July until you battle through the Revolutionary War. Luckily the Village of Silver Lake hosted Rebels and Redcoats at Fox Lake Park last weekend to settle the score. Re-enactors fire a salvo over the heads of the Red Coats (not shown here). Re-enactors were members of the North West…
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Everyone loves a parade
St. Alphonsus School students (top) and members of the Wheatland Willing Workers 4-H Club participate in the 45th annual Wheatland Volunteer Fire Department Festival parade held June 21. (Earlene Frederick photo)
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WVFD on parade
Wheatland Volunteer Fire Department hosted its 45th annual Fireman’s Festival last weekend. Top, Janice Richter and Katie Daniels are all smiles during the June 32 parade and above, candy showered from the heavens, or at least from the top of this engine, during the parade. (Earlene Frederick photo)
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Slow No Wake remains in place for Twin Lakes.
Until further notice there is NO WAKE posted on Lake Mary and Lake Elizabeth.
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VFW Post 4551 hosts half-a-beef raffle
VFW Post 4551 Antioch, concluded its Memorial Day Half-A-Beef raffle June 7 at the Antioch Packing House. Commander Robert Sokoloski (top, from left) and Quartermaster William Oerly presented checks for $250 each to Holly Vittitow of Antioch and Jean Craig of Antioch. The first place prize winner, Stacey Carney of Bristol, was unable to be…
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RB BREAKS DONOR RECORD
RBCHS has hosted blood drives since 1996 and the last one was the best in RB history with 121 donors. Cassie Owen, from the RB Class of 2014, donated blood. A representative from Heartland Blood Center told the RB’s National Honor Society students that this drive surpassed the number of donors at all local drives…