Ryan Otten was informed by people in the know about Hamilton girls soccer history.

After winning the Classic 8 Conference indoor title and conference relays, the Mukwonago boys track team needed one more jewel to obtain the conference triple crown.

Matt Huffaker had four hits and six RBIs, powering the Oconomowoc varsity baseball team to a 16-5 victory at Racine Horlick on Saturday. The game was called after the bottom of the fifth inning, because of the 10-run mercy rule.

It's showdown time for the Arrowhead varsity girls softball team and longtime rival Milwaukee Pius.

Sarah Gelhaar is used to traveling more than the average student-athlete to play the sport she loves.

Prices for regular unleaded gasoline hit $4 in Milwaukee earlier this week and the ever-climbing prices are heading westward.

Certain signs point toward the end of the school year and in recent years, Grilling 2 Give has been one of them at Oconomowoc High School.

A popular eatery in the downtown area has closed, temporarily.

The Town Board on Tuesday took another step toward a new municipal facility by choosing an architectural firm to prepare conceptual drawings and cost estimates in preparation for a November referendum.

What a difference four years can make.

The Town of Oconomowoc will join more than 200 other state municipalities after being delegated responsibility for erosion control by the Department of Commerce.

The recently founded Oconomowoc Public Education Foundation is setting the pace with its first project.

Town of Oconomowoc officials are looking into the purchase of new land from the state so the municipality could relocate its yard waste recycling center.

Mayor Ed McAleer has expressed a vote of confidence in former Plan B Committee Chairman Kean Kemnitz in the wake of the latest controversy to swirl around the construction consultant who played a key role in the successful $12 million referendum for new city buildings.

Recent problems caused by high water levels on local lakes have led to the adoption of an ordinance giving the town the ability to establish emergency slow, no-wake zones on five local lakes.

With donations from parents, the reward for information about the burning of playground equipment at Hartland North Elementary School was increased by $500.

A former City of Pewaukee man is scheduled to appear in court Monday for a preliminary hearing on charges that he allegedly rammed a car that he believed was driven by his father May 7.

There isn't a much better of a feeling than the satisfaction one gets by helping out a child, not even receiving a state-wide award for doing exceptionally well.

Picture yourself surrounded by an assemblage of musicians, listening to selected songs from their past year's repertoire, culminating in a powerful grand finale of John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" by a massed band of almost 600 students, with more than 50 percussionists and 100 tru
(Published 5/15/2008)

In compliance with Wisconsin's Smart Growth planning legislation, village officials will hold an informational open house May 21 to discuss updates and revisions to the village's master plan and to get input from residents.

The Wildlife In Need Center, founded in 1994 by Nancy Frank, is looking to expand, as the demand for wildlife rehabilitation in Southeastern Wisconsin grows.

Hamilton School District will host its seventh annual Camp Invention from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. July 28-Aug. 1 at Maple Avenue Elementary School for children entering first through sixth grades in the 2008-09 school year.

A psychiatrist's report on whether a Sussex man who slit his wife's throat should be released from a state mental health facility will be reviewed in a court hearing May 30.

Owners of yard signs promoting products, services, real estate and rummage sales must remove signs posted in the town's roadside rights-of-way by June 1.

More than a dozen soldiers and veterans lined up on each side of the center aisle of the Sussex Village Park Pavilion on Saturday as friends, family and supporters surrounded them at the sixth annual Proud American Rally for the USO.

A bench that was in the old Journal building in the 1960s has seen its share of history.

School library aid totaling $35 million was distributed last week, and because of legislation passed as part of the 2007-09 budget, for the first time, school districts will be able to use a portion of that aid to purchase computers and related software.

It was one of the most challenging accident scenes North Prairie Fire Department Assistant Chief Karen Keys can remember - a car T-boned by a box truck, involving an unresponsive accident victim with a head injury and part of the car's door frame impaling the patient in the hip.

Field Park may soon take a technological leap. If CenturyTel has its way, there could be free wireless service in Field Park, possibly in time for the upcoming Maxwell Street Days season.