LITTLE GEMS
‘America’s Best Restaurants’ is coming to downtown Lake Geneva.
The Magpie’s Lake Geneva team is excited to announce that they are being featured on America’s Best Restaurants! America’s Best Restaurants is a national media and marketing company focusing on local, independently owned restaurants around the country. CEO Matt Plapp came up with the idea to do a traveling restaurant-focused food show in 2018. The show airs solely on social media, such as the Facebook page of the hosting restaurant and America’s Best Restaurant’s YouTube channel. The mission of The Roadshow is to highlight local, independent restaurants with a story to tell and Magpie’s on Main Street will be sharing its story on a future episode to be aired very shortly.
No tornadoes were reported from last week’s tornado warnings, although a gustnado occurred in western Walworth County.
A gustnado is a vortex at the surface that is not extended to the thunderstorm above it, even though the wind power driving its force comes from up there. To be classified as a tornado, the vortex has to be visibly connected to the base of the thunderstorm. Radar scans around the north of Darien showed atmospheric rotation. However, spotter video acquired by the National Weather Service confirmed that there was a gap in the rotation between the ground and the upper reaches of the thunderstorm itself. This event will go in the record books under the heading of, “wind damage.”
The Wisconsin state tornado total for the year remains at two. Tornadoes are extremely uncommon occurrences in Southern Wisconsin during January, February, and March simply because there’s usually not enough warm humid air low to the ground that can rise up to encounter the cold dry air above. In the last five years, the area near Geneva Lake has had only two tornadoes during January, one in February and one in March.
Lake Geneva Fire.
On February 9th, at approximately 8:30 p.m., the City of Lake Geneva Police Department received a report of a fire at an address in the 900 block of West Main Street. Investigators determined that the fire was intentionally set. Detectives from the City of Lake Geneva Police Department arrested Bryon E. Kilgore, a resident of Arizona with connections to Lake Geneva. Kilgore was taken into custody at which time he made admissions to detectives of intentionally setting the fire, related to ongoing domestic issues. Kilgore was confined at the Walworth County Jail. The Walworth County District Attorney’s Office has formally charged Bryon E. Kilgore with arson of a building. He signed a $20,000 cash bond on Feb. 26 to be released until trial.
Person of the Week
Pam Wilkinson (PJ) running for District 3 alderperson.
