Arrowhead boys whip South

Feb. 10, 2012 9:39 p.m. |  Host Arrowhead's varsity boys basketball team whipped Waukesha South Friday night in a Classic 8 Conference game, 71-48.

AHS improved to 10-9 overall  and 8-4 in league play.

South has one win on the season.

Ryan Saeger led the Warhawks with 16 points. DJ Escamilla had 13 points and Kenny Finco had 10 points.

Pewaukee boys win big

Feb. 10, 2012 9:34 p.m. |  Host Pewaukee's varsity boys basketball team rolled over struggling St. Francis Friday night in a Woodland Conference game, 65-29.

PHS improved to14-5 on the season and 12-3 in league play. The win was the eighth in a row for the Pirates.

Senior Jordan Daul fired in 16 points to lead the winners. John Czerwinski had 10 points.

Love is in the air this weekend

Feb. 10, 2012 4:06 p.m. | Theatre on Main invites you to enjoy a Valentine’s treat, A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters”. Starring in this emotionally riveting Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominated play is Carl Liden as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, and local playwright, Lisa Rowe, author of Psych, as Melissa Gardner.

Both born to wealth and position, they become childhood friends whose correspondence begins with birthday party thank you notes and summer camp postcards, and continues throughout their multi-faceted lives. Melissa, who hates writing letters, is portrayed as rich and spoiled, with a private nurse and private schools, artistic, certainly lascivious, divorced, eventually alcoholic, bi-polar, and suicidal. Andy Ladd is square, destined for Yale, a naval officer, a lawyer, and a U.S. Senator, and says that “writing letters is what he loves most”.

Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at tables and read the notes, letters and cards - in which over nearly 50 years, they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats - that have passed between them throughout their separated lives. In his preface to Love Letters, A. R. Gurney suggests that his emphasis in this play on the importance of writing is more than coincidental.

Showing for a limited time only, “Love Letters” is being performed Feb. 10-12. Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2. Theatre on Main is at 25 S. Main St., Oconomowoc. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for seniors and students. Tickets are available for purchase by calling the box office at (26) 560-0564, at Books & Company and the Fox Bros. Oconomowoc Piggly Wiggly. Mature subject matter; some adult language.

Poor driving conditions in Lake Country

Feb. 10, 2012 12:13 p.m. |  Driving conditions throughout the Lake Country area deteriorated quickly Friday morning and just about all roads in the area are snow covered and very slippery. 

As of 10 a.m. the roads were just wet, but not slippery. By 11 a.m. the temperature had dropped, the wind started blowing and the snow became heavier.

Traffic both east and westbound on Highway 16 from Pewaukee to Hartland was going about 25 to 35 miles per hour. Several cars were in the ditch in a two-mile stretch near Yench Road.

Traffc on Highway 83 between 16 and I-94 was also going very slow.

Road conditions in Hartland also were very slippery as of noon.

Hart-Lake makes its case

Feb. 08, 2012 9:21 p.m. | The Hartland-Lakeside School District laid out its reasoning for asking district taxpayers for $930,000 in referendum dollars at a meeting at North Shore Middle School tonight.

Tonight's meeting was one in a series of meetings designed to educate the public on what the school district is asking of taxpayers. The next meeting is set for 9 a.m. on Feb. 13, followed by another that evening at 6:30 p.m.

At the meeting, Superintendent Glenn Schilling outlined the numerous cost-cutting measures the district has implemented in recent years and the effect of recent legislation on the district.

The district is seeking the referendum money to continue offering the same level of services to its students. According to Schilling, an unsuccessful referendum would force the district to make reductions in certain areas, including electives, the arts, support staff, special education, technology. Cuts could also lead to higher class sizes, he said.

Taxpayers will vote on the referendum in the Feb. 21 primary ballot.

Mayor to sign student proclamation

Feb. 08, 2012 2:40 p.m. |  Tomorrow, City of Oconomowoc Mayor Daley will sign a proclamation written by a group of students from Nature Hill Intermediate School and Silver Lake Intermediate School at 2 pm at City Hall.  The students wrote the proclamation as part of the Reading Streak: 100 days of Reading.

Bullying program coming to Mukwonago schools

Feb. 08, 2012 12:10 p.m. | Get Connected, a parent network that helps families navigate the school years by providing information and networking, will present "No Child Should be Afraid to Go to School," with Jim Jelinske on Thursday, Feb. 16.

Two morning sessions, 9 a.m. for grades 4 through 6 and 10 a.m. for students in kindergarten through third grade will be held at Prairie View School. An evening session for adults will be presented at 7 p.m. at Park View Middle School, 930 N. Rochester Street, Mukwonago, in the school library. 

The program addresses bullying at school, which can be reduced through comprehensive, school-wide programs designed to change behavior.

For more information, contact Dr. Maxine Towle, MAS pupil services director at (262) 363-6300 ext. 24200 or towlema@mukwonago.k12.wi.us .

Hart-Lake referendum discussion tonight

Feb. 08, 2012 11:27 a.m. | Looking for more information on the upcoming Hartland-Lakeside referendum?

The school district is holding an informational session tonight at 6:30 p.m. at North Shore Middle School.

District residents face a $930,000 tax referendum on Feb. 21, that district officials say is needed to maintain the current level of district services.

If you can't make tonight's meeting, consider going to next week's discussions at 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 13.

Eat, drink and be merry at Wine and Brewfest

Feb. 08, 2012 11:22 a.m. | Beer, wine and a chocolate dipping fountain dessert bar.

Does it get any better than that?

Yes, it does.

The sixth annual Wine and Brewfest sponsored by the Oconomowoc Rotary Club also includes appetizers as well as American and Italian fare. And if that doesn’t make it even more appetizing, proceeds will go toward Rotary’s charitable endeavors including the polio eradication project around the world. 

The event takes place 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Olympia Resort in Oconomowoc.

Sussex still seeking DPW Director

Feb. 08, 2012 9:58 a.m. | Village of Sussex - Village officials have acknowledged they are having a difficult time filling the position of Director of Public Works/Village Engineer.

Village Administrator Jeremy Smith said eight candidates, thought to be semi finalists for the position, were interviewed by the village staff. Smith said the village will continue seeking applicants who have necessary professional qualifications for the position as well as a personality that enables the candidate to fit in with the village staff and village trustees.

Village President Greg Greg Goetz said the Director of Public Works position requires an individual who has engineering education and skills, a kinowlege of municipal government, and an ability to work with residents of the communtiy.

The position has been vacant since late last year when former Public Works Director Eric Nitschke resigned to accept the position of Director of the Southeastern Region of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Assistant Administrator Melissa Weiss has been serving as interim director. The village officials would not comment on whether they would consider appointing her Department of Public Works Director and later hiring an engineer who would report to her.

Generac plans expansion, remodeling

Feb. 08, 2012 7:52 a.m. | Generac plans to put $8 million to $10 million into an expansion and remodeling project at its Town of Genesee plant, according to an announcement from the company on Tuesday.

Read more in this week's Kettle Moraine Index.

Smith scores school-record 43 points for Arrowhead girls

Feb. 07, 2012 10:30 p.m. | Arrowhead senior post Jenny Smith carved up Germantown in school-record fashion Tuesday, scoring 43 points and guiding her team to a 59-35 nonconference win over the other Warhawks.

Smith made 16 of 18 shots from the field, 11 of 11 from the free-throw line and grabbed 12 rebounds.

"It doesn't get more perfect than that," AHS coach Heidi Hamilton said. "She got great looks from her teammates, and she had the best game I've seen her play. She had 34 against Franklin earlier this year, and this just puts an exclamation point on it."

Smith broke the record set by Lorraine Lorenzen, who scored 42, 39, 36 and 35 points in a game to hold the previous top four marks in school history. Lorenzen graduated in 1977 and later played at the University of Wisconsin.

"The main reason (this happened) is because of my team)," Smith said. "I probably made about three moves by myself. It all came from passing: the lobs, them driving and dishing. I took what I could get, and it was all because of them.

Delafield planners narrowly back chicken ordinance

Feb. 07, 2012 8:13 p.m. |

Town of Delafield – The Plan Commission Tuesday recommended on a 4-3 vote to the Town Board to approve of an ordinance that would allow residents to raise chickens.

The Plan Commission has been discussing such an ordinance for several months after one town resident was found to be raising chickens on a residential property. The ordinance allows residents to raise up to eight chickens.

Numerous other area communities have such an ordinance as do major cities in the United States

Delafield man charged with 6th OWI

Feb. 07, 2012 2:02 p.m. | Waukesha – A City of Delafield man, who is accused of "swerving" all over I-94 Feb. 3 was charged Feb. 6 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with sixth-offense drunken driving.

According to the criminal complaint, two motorists on westbound I-94 contacted dispatchers at about 8:15 p.m. about a vehicle that was "swerving all over the road between all three lanes." A Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department deputy stopped the vehicle, driven by Thomas J. Metsa, 43, of 402 Genesee St., on the freeway near Highway 83 in the City of Delafield.

A preliminary breath test showed Metsa had an alcohol concentration of 0.19. A level of 0.08 is considered evidence of intoxication in adult drivers in Wisconsin. People with three or more drunken driving convictions are prohibited from driving with a level of 0.02 or higher.

Metsa is free on $3,000 cash bail and is scheduled to appear in court March 15 for a hearing.

Oconomowoc man charged with 7th OWI

Feb. 07, 2012 1:39 p.m. |

Waukesha – A 42-year-old City of Oconomowoc man was charged Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with seventh-offense drunken driving after he made an improper turn early Sunday.

According to the criminal complaint, at about 1:40 a.m. a City of Oconomowoc officer saw a vehicle, driven by Darrick B. Junck of 1150 W. Wisconsin Ave., turn left at Collins and Main streets even though there is a sign stating no left turn. The officer stopped the vehicle and noticed the odor of intoxicants.

Junck admitted to the officer he had several beers at a bar and said he should not have been driving, the complaint said. A preliminary breath test showed an alcohol concentration of 0.15. A level of 0.08 is considered evidence of intoxication in adult drivers in Wisconsin. People with three or more drunken driving convictions are prohibited from driving with a level of 0.02 or higher.

Junck was convicted of drunken driving in September 1995, April 1997, March 1998, August 2000, November 20005 and in May 2008, when he was sentenced in Jefferson County to three years in prison and three years of extended supervision.