DAYS GONE BY 5 Years Ago April 16, 2015 Amanda Plachinski and Rebecca Strigenz are the latest recipients of the J.O. Reigle Scholarships awarded annually by Regal Ware, Inc. The scholarship program was established in 1963 in honor of Regal Ware’s founder, the late J.O. Reigle. The award recognizes the outstanding scholastic achievements of one or more graduating high school seniors in

DAYS GONE BY 5 Years Ago April 2, 2015 Destination Imagination is growing in the Kewaskum School District. This year, seven teams took to the challenge of using their imagination to solve problems and competed in the regional tournament in Germantown. The Farmington Fighters chose the technical challenge “Creature Feature”. At the tournament there is also an Instant Challenge which requires

DAYS GONE BY 5 Years Ago September 4, 2014 Scores of students taking the ACT test in Kewaskum rose in all subjects and one stayed the same. However, the number of students who took the test decreased slightly and Kewaskum is still just short of the state average in all but one subject. School officials are pleased with the results but they strive for better scores in 2015. If a convincing

DAYS GONE BY 5 Years Ago August 7, 2014 Quietly, Sunday morning, August 2, a portion of an I-beam from the north tower of the World Trade Center arrived in Kewaskum. The lonely piece of steel is a memorial for the community to remember one of their own fallen in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Andrea Lyn Haberman, daughter of Gordon and Kathy Haberman of Farmington and a 1994 Kewaskum High

DAYS GONE BY 5 Years Ago July 24, 2014 The Kewaskum Fire Department took delivery of its new ambulance and recently placed it into service. The ambulance is a replacement for one totaled in a crash January 31, 2014. The new ambulance is on a 2015 Ford F-450 chassis. It has the same patient compartment as the previous ambulance. A mainstay at what was once the village’s most southern

DAYS GONE BY 5 Years Ago July 17, 2014 In a few weeks the lights on Main Street will shine again. In April the primary power feed to the lights along the project route was accidentally cut, according to a notice posted on Kewaskum’s village web site. Because of safety concerns the line needed to be de-energized. The line was a dedicated power source for the lights and the outage did not

Sign-Up To Participate In October Deer Hunt For Disabled Hunters Now Open Eligible disabled hunters hoping to participate in the 2019 gun deer hunt for hunters with disabilities must contact a hunt sponsor to sign up before September 1. As of the June 1 sponsor application deadline, 62 sponsors have enrolled over 73,000 acres of land across 41 counties for this year's hunt, which takes

DAYS GONE BY 5 Years Ago July 10, 2014 Even 24 years after he retired from Kewaskum High School and nearly seven years after his death, Roy Esser is still respected by those involved in the field of agriculture. Just recently, Esser was posthumously inducted into the Wisconsin National FFA Organization Hall of Fame, an award created in 1995 to honor those individuals who made significant contributions