Big offensive nights from Dalton Grove and Kyle Calhoun combined with a strong pitching performance from Cody Smith to lead the Kettle Moraine varsity baseball team to an 8-2 win over Waukesha North in Tuesday's WIAA regional.

What a difference a couple of weeks can make. The Oconomowoc Land O' Lakes Western Division baseball team found that out the hard way.

Eric Van Beck picked a great time to pitch his best game of the season Tuesday night.

Nick Heppe was a big hit Tuesday, and so were the Chargers.

The Village Board is filing a civil lawsuit against property owner Kent Hanson, who refuses to plow under a 7-acre crop of corn growing on his business-zoned property on Highway 18.

The School Board has accepted a $1.2 million offer from a local developer to purchase the Oconomowoc Middle School property.

When police arrived at the front door of Eric Tavulares' apartment shortly after 3 a.m. July 19, Tavulares answered the door and immediately said, "I did it," according to a criminal complaint.

If Village President Bryce Styza's proposal is accepted by the state Department of Transportation (DOT), Highway 83 will no longer go through the village, North Lake, the Town of Erin or the City of Hartford.

Lake Country commuters who use Highway 16 should either seek alternate routes or anticipate delays during morning and evening rush hours for at least a month.

North Shore Middle School Director of Student Services Michele Schmidt will assume the position of principal at the school in August.

Trains and their horns are a fact of life throughout Lake Country, but at least 171 people in Hartland are in favor of quieting those horns in the village.

Dorner Inc. Superintendent Matt Athey is expecting the terrace areas between the street and sidewalks to remain unfinished by the time the downtown Oconomowoc Street Dance on Aug. 9.

The Oconomowoc Area School District has reached out to the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department to ensure Nature Hill and Silver Lake intermediate schools will be safe for students walking to class.

An administrative internship project between the School District and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will go into effect at the start of the upcoming school year.

The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life of Oconomowoc, held at Oconomowoc High School last weekend, raised $24,000 for the American Cancer Society.

No summer is complete in the Village of Dousman without celebrating its biggest community-gathering event of the entire year. That's right, it's time for Dousman Derby Days.

No Dousman Derby Days would be complete without the event from which the areawide festival originated.

The Village Board has agreed to offer a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for the recent vandalism done to the soccer pavilion at Wales Community Park.

A 25-year-old Butler man has been charged with battery to a police officer for allegedly punching a Butler policeman shortly after midnight Monday.

A few weeks after the 2007-08 school year ended, Hamilton School District Superintendent Kathleen Cooke boarded a plane for the "trip of a lifetime."

Former Police Sgt. Gaetano "Tom" Alioto has charged Lisbon officials with harassment, retaliation for whistle blowing, conspiracy, discrimination and defamation in a lawsuit filed last week stemming from his feud with former Police Chief Terry Martorano.

Spend a day at Old World Wisconsin and explore an entirely different time and place. Watch as a blacksmith works over hot coals and smell the aroma of country cooking.

After sorting through more than 20 applications, the Mukwonago Community Library Board selected a successor to fill the seat vacated after Library Director Kathy McBride's retirement.

After several years of erosion eating away the Mukwonago River shoreline in Indianhead Park, a project to stabilize the shoreline and create a more natural appearance will begin soon, possibly in the beginning of August.

Headway is being made in Country Bliss subdivision, as a fourth pump was used last Thursday and Friday and water levels continue to decline.