Carey Fowler opened Eight Maids Cheese Shop, 723 Williams Bay in Lake Geneva, in December 2025. The cheese shop features locally-produced artisan cheeses, meats, jams, wines and beers. Fowler is following in her family’s tradition of producing cheese and dairy products, as they have operated…
Officials from the Lake Geneva Business Improvement District hosted their Annual Meeting and Community Improvement Awards event April 1 at the Cove of Lake Geneva hotel, 111 Center St. Awards were presented for Citizen of the Year, Community Spirit, Volunteer of the Year and Best Business Im…
Lake Geneva Mayor Todd Krause presented David Wingate, co-owner of Flat Iron Tap, with a certificate of recognition during the March 23 Lake Geneva City Council for performing the Heimlich maneuver on a customer during an emergency situation in October 2025. Krause said Wingate’s actions all…
As voters head to the polls in Williams Bay on Tuesday, April 1, a contested 6-way race is on the spring general election ballot for the three Williams Bay Village Board trustee seats up for election this cycle.
A three-way race in on for the two Walworth Town Board seats up for election this cycle at the Tuesday, April 1 spring general election. Incumbent Walworth Town Board Supervisor William "Bill" Pearce will face a challenge on the ballot from Peter Featherstone and Daniel Kauer. Incumbent Supe…
In the 5,390-resident Town of Geneva, challengers Richard A. Watson and Scott Williams will face off for the Town Supervisor 2 seat being vacated by incumbent Supervisor Larry K. Kulik.
Volo, Ill. resident Richard Schultz won the $350,000 top prize in the Wisconsin Lottery's Feb. 22 SuperCash! drawing, purchasing his winning ticket from the Genoa City BP. Schultz matched six of six numbers.
The Fontana Film Club will host a red carpet world premiere weekend for its newest thriller production, Super Falcon, with showings on Friday, March 14 at 7 p.m., and Saturday, March 15 at 2 p.m. in the gymnasium at Fontana Elementary School, 450 S. Main St. in Fontana-on-Geneva-Lake. There will be free popcorn and free prizes. Admission is free. Donations in support of the Fontana Film Club are welcomed and appreciated.
Proactively turning their sights to the upcoming 2025-2026 school year, the Williams Bay Board of Education on March 10 approved three intergovernmental agreements under the provisions of Wisconsin Statute 66.0301, sharing its staff with neighboring school districts.
A contested race is on the Tuesday, April 1 spring general election ballot for the Linn-Bloomfield Joint 4 School District Board of Education, as challenger Heather Leedle takes on incumbent William Leonard, board clerk. Leonard is a past and current Board of Education member.
There will be a contested race for the Big Foot Union High School Board of Education on the Tuesday, April 1 spring general election ballot for the board's dedicated Sharon seat representing the Town of Sharon and the Village of Sharon. The ballot will feature incumbent Board of Education member Edward A. Hayden, board president, and challenger Chris Walter.
The longstanding legacy of award-winning journalistic excellence in Walworth County continues at the weekly Lake Geneva Regional News, as West End reporter Eric A. Johnson received two first place and two third place awards last Friday in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNAF) 2024 Better Newspaper Contest.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers released a statement on Jan. 16 regarding the passing of Baseball Hall of Fame radio broadcaster Bob Uecker, the voice of Milwaukee Brewers baseball from 1971-2024.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced Jan. 14 that is will host five career fairs across the state in early 2025. The fairs will be held in Eau Claire, Oshkosh, Milwaukee, Fitchburg and Woodruff, starting Jan. 18.
Last week’s flip of the calendar page from December to January marked another milestone passage of time.
Beginning Jan. 6, Fontana resident Carly Van Pelt, 11, a Reek Elementary School fifth-grader, will be a contestant participating in the 13th season of Food Network's "Kids Baking Championship." A 2-year entrepreneur, youth baker Van Pelt runs her own business, VP's Treats, selling a variety of baked goods and animal treats online via Instagram (@vpstreats) and seasonal retail sales at the summer Williams Bay Farmers Market and occasional pop-ups at Fontana Home.
The first baby of 2025 born at Aurora Lakeland Medical Center was Remy Jay Bethke, daughter of Gabrielle and Raymond Bethke of Pleasant Prairie in Kenosha County, who was born at 7:50 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.
Members of the Geneva Lake West Rotary Club gathered Dec. 19 at Walworth Elementary School and Sharon Community School in the run-up to the Christmas and New Year's holidays to assemble and then deliver 243 food boxes as part of the nonprofit service organization's annual Holiday Food Assistance Program outreach to food insecure individuals and families in its West End service area encompassing Fontana, Linn, Sharon, Walworth and Williams Bay.
Gov. Tony Evers on Dec. 30 signed Executive Order #249, ordering the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff in honor of the passing of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100.
Seasonal songs of good cheer were in the air at Williams Bay Middle-High School on Dec. 12 as the school hosted its “The Merriest Noel” holiday concert.
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