Slinger News

Four men with a passion for stock car racing in Oshkosh are headed for a special honor.

A pair of disqualifications altered the finishes for the Fox River Racing Club's limited late model and super stock features last Thursday night at Wisconsin International Raceway in Buchanan.

Monarch Homes of Wisconsin LLC has filed updated bankruptcy records that show it owes more than $7 million to its creditors, including just over $6 million in unsecured debts.

Jun. 19, 2009 12:38 p.m. Monarch Homes of Wisconsin LLC has filed updated bankruptcy records that show it owes over $7 million to its creditors, including just over $6 million in unsecured debts.

As he departs from Fond du Lac after overseeing the largest Catholic congregation in Wisconsin, the Rev.

Unless the state Legislature changes how aid is dispersed, the biennial budget proposed for consideration this week would hit poorer, lower-spending school districts harder than other districts, officials warn.

Danny Strupp heads to the shop at Strupp Implement in Slinger. Pinched farmers are going heavy on repairs.

Manitowoc Lincoln shot a 351 and wound up seventh out of eight teams at the WIAA Division 1 regional at Washington County Golf Club, hosted by Slinger.

While the economy may be slow to recover, it's still full speed ahead for the Fox River Racing Club at Wisconsin International Raceway this season.

The cost to mail a first-class letter went up to 44 cents on Monday. But if you went to John Auito, of Macomb, Mich., you probably could have purchased stamps at a 15 percent discount.

A group of 36 Slinger High School students joined other trail volunteers at the proposed 414-acre Polk Kames park north of Slinger in the Kettle Moraine Friday to build a new 1.5 mile section of the trail.

Authorities closed Highway 41 Northbound in Slinger in Washington County Thursday afternoon after a bad crash right under the Highway 60 overpass.

Washington County law enforcement agencies confiscated more than 25 pounds of marijuana, $13,024 in cash, a handgun, laptop computer and other drugs in two separate investigations Saturday and Monday in the City of Hartford, Village of Slinger and Town of Hartford, authorities said Tuesday.

Monarch Homes of Wisconsin LLC, a luxury home builder based in Slinger, filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy notice Wednesday, according to reports in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Monarch was the builder of the "Extreme Makeover-Home Edition" house for the Koepke family of Dundee in 2006.

An alleged shoplifter with a bottle of whiskey in his pants decided to take one more gamble before leaving a Washington County liquor store: filling out a raffle ticket.

An alleged shoplifter with a bottle of whiskey in his pants decided to take one more gamble before leaving a Washington County liquor store: filling out a raffle ticket.

A 20-year-old shoplifter with a bottle of whiskey in his pants delayed his escape from a liquor store this week just long enough to write his name and address on a raffle ticket before running out the door, according to a criminal complaint.

Seven steer died in a fire that destroyed a barn and its contents in the Town of Jackson early Saturday.

Ves Pavlovic, a junior in the College of Business Administration, searches on Craigslist, a marketplace Web site where people sell various goods and services.

Five fire departments were called out Friday afternoon to fight a blaze that destroyed a barn in the town of Rubicon in Dodge County.