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Your Beliefs
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Politics
How would you describe your political beliefs? Are you registered with a certain party?
I am not registered to any party and consider myself an independent, voting for the candidate(s) I feel are most aligned with my views.
Religion
How religious would you consider yourself?
I believe in God.
Local Hot-Button Issues
What do you think are the most important issues facing the community?
Growth, development, taxes, the school system, village leadership, jobs/unemployment and home values seem to dominate conversations and concerns across the board.
Where do you stand on each of these issues?
I don't stand anywhere on the issues. My job is to report the facts as accurately and as objectively as possible so the reader can decide where he/she stands.
Alex Richter will spend 80 years - the rest of his life, really - in prison after he entered a no-contest plea Monday to four of 49 child sex assault charges against him.
Boo at the Zoo! will be a good time had by kids of all ages.
Quonset homes were originally designed as convenient do-it-all storage buildings for the military in WWII. Turns out they make good houses for Sturtevant residents.
Superhero movies have never really gone out of style, and now there's a cool TV show spinning off of "The Avengers." So we wondered ... what super power would you choose?
A Florida man is in jail because police say he was prostituting a teenage girl out of a local motel.
Need plans for Saturday? Enjoy live music, raffles and a pig roast to help aid South Shore Administrative Assistant Lori Swenson pay her medical bills after she was critically injured in a motorcycle accident.
Do you recognize these men? They are suspects in a theft in Caledonia last month and now, possibly, a new case in Brookfield.
The CP Rail Holiday Train has Sturtevant on its 2013 tour schedule. All donations collected that night benefit the Racine County Food Bank.
Curt Johnson's child sex assault case remains on hold until the state Supreme Court makes a decision about one of its decisions.
Cops and firefighters will take to the basketball court for Special Olympics.
Celebrate the lives and service of our veterans at the Veteran's Day parade Nov. 9 in downtown Milwaukee.
Racine police are looking for a man they say exposed himself to a young girl.
A Caledonia man remains in jail after police say he punched, kicked and strangled his child's mother.
Mount Pleasant police officer is Racine County's first K9 handler.
Convicted sex offender Michael Fink is in custody for possibly violating the terms of his supervised release.
A night with Black Violin is no ordinary night at the symphony. Instead, be prepared to have this dynamic duo rock your socks.
The new Walmart Neighborhood Market opens in eight days. Patch got a sneak peek into the new story Tuesday.
Patch is working on getting details about an accident with injuries on 4-Mile Road near Green Bay Road.
Join the Washington Park cheerleaders for a fundraising dinner from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Chick-Fil-A.
The new South Shore ambulance has arrived and is on the road taking calls.
