With winter weather well on its way, homeowners are looking for ways to curtail their energy dollars.

Next year's tax bills will rise 3 percent, or $27 on an average home assessed at about $200,000, if the Village Board passes the proposed 2009 budget it's been working on the last couple of months after a public hearing at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in Village Hall.

Voters will consider the town's 2009 levy, highway budget and elected officials' salaries at their annual town meeting tomorrow, Nov. 20, in the Hamilton High School library.

Your mother was right. The best way to stay healthy during cold and flu season is to get lots of rest, drink plenty of liquids and eat nutritious meals. Oh, and don't forget a flu shot.

At just 24 years old, Jeremy DuCharme is now one of 2,000 special agents working around the globe for the United States government.

The 24th District state Assembly seat will remain in Republican control, but the winner, 49-year-old Daniel Knodl, remains under a cloud.

Five years after quarry blasts damaged well pumps or contaminated water for about half of the 58 homes at the south end of Maple Avenue, the town appears no closer to a solution for the neighborhood's water problems.

Lisbon and Sussex agreed recently to restore $2,000 of what had been an $8,000 cut to the Pauline Haass Public Library budget.

Bucking the tide of history in the nation and the state, but consistent with its own historical voting patterns, the four Sussex Sun communities gave John McCain the bulk of their votes in Tuesday's presidential election.

Lake County residents with fireplaces in their homes are being reminded by North Lake Fire Chief Jack Van Goethem to have their chimneys cleaned.

The mood at the Waukesha County GOP election party was subdued, though anything but despairing.

James Behrend, the Republican candidate for the Register of Deeds post in Waukesha County, easily defeated Democrat Rachel Christoph in Tuesday's election.

Bucking the tide of history in the nation and the state, but consistent with its own historical voting patterns, Lake Country gave John McCain the bulk of its votes in Tuesday's presidential election.

Voters in the 98th Assembly District have overwhelmingly decided to send incumbent Republican Rich Zipperer back to Madison for a second term in the state Legislature.

The Town Board will recommend a levy hike to Lisbon's voters Nov. 20 that will raise the local property tax rate by about 12.4 percent.

Lisbon and Sussex agreed last week to restore $2,000 of what had been an $8,000 cut to the Pauline Haass Public Library budget.

Families looking to connect with their communities have a new monthly resource in western Waukesha County.

Valerie Linton-Reed told the Lisbon Board that a memo denying local officials the authority to conduct driver's license checks on voters contradicted a conversation she had with an official.

The Village Board voted 6-1 last Tuesday to recommend a budget for 2009 that would increase the tax levy by 4.66 percent to $4,319,679 - or $192,312 more than this year's $4,127,367 levy.

No matter who wins the race to succeed Sue Jeskewitz (R-Menomonee Falls) as the 24th Assembly District representative, the newcomer will no longer come from Waukesha County.

Town residents will be asked to decide in three weeks whether they want to pay lower taxes or fix more roads.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, at the following locations in the communities served by the Sun.

Robert Raymond of Shorewood thinks people should have options.

Bielinski Homes has asked the village to extend its Oct. 30 deadline for removal of the ground concrete pile on the old Mammoth Spring cannery site by two months, to Jan. 1.

National politics doesn't often make itself felt in this rural exurban outback, but one partisan controversy has made its way here.

Interim Fire Chief Kevin Bierce has been chosen as the new chief of the Pewaukee Fire Department by the City of Pewaukee Police and Fire Commission.

As the Democratic candidate in the safest Republican legislative district in the state, Victor Weers of Brookfield knows that his best chance of getting elected is if Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama can carry Wisconsin by a big enough margin to create a political tsunami that sweep
(Published 10/21/2008)

Jim McLoone, the man who shaped Lake Country journalism for 30 years, will be inducted Friday into the Milwaukee Media Hall of Fame.

Bielinski Homes has hired Rawson Contractors to remove the 11,000-ton pile of crushed concrete from the old Mammoth Spring cannery site.

Struggling to cut $90,000 from a $5 million budget by the end of the month, town supervisors found $37,800 in reductions they could agree on Monday night.

After nearly 40 years, Waukesha County will have a new register of deeds.

Preparing for a presidential candidate to come to town is no easy task.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin greeted a roaring crowd in Waukesha last Thursday, at their "Straight Talk" town hall meeting.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin invited Wisconsinites to look forward with them at Thursday's Straight Talk Town Hall meeting in Waukesha.

Volunteer firefighters are organizing a benefit Oct. 11 for one of their comrades who was seriously injured during a softball game.

With a month to go before the fall elections, voters are already beginning to cast absentee ballots, which became available Monday.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, have scheduled a town hall meeting for 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Waukesha County Center Court Sports Complex on Northview Road across from from the Waukesha County fairgrounds.

Waukesha County food pantries are feeling the pinch of a troubled American economy.

While most of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted yes to the $700 billion bailout, the House ignored warnings from President Bush and defeated the rescue plan.