Yes, that is the opening line of a song written for the world famous singer named Madonna. Life is a Mystery. No truer lyrics were ever written. In Lake Geneva, there are plenty of mysteries, most right in front of the public but many lying under the radar or even the ground.
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Living Here Beauty, money, and ability can be used to attract, influence and manipulate others,...
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The Roger Brooks Report is an assessment of the City of Lake Geneva as a destination to attract visitors and future residents. It focused on the benefits of tourism and growth for the city. However, tourists, who are visitors to our town, are like visitors to one’s residence.
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A notorious serial killer, trapped in Trinke Estates, was found, investigated, convicted and given the death sentence in February of this year.
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No sooner does Jim Weiss win re-election to the position of President of the Town of Linn Board, then he becomes the main player in the resolution of the Starry Stonewort problem. The problem of what to do about the initial appearance of this potentially invasive species in Geneva Lake’s pristine pure water, and all else that goes with that, has been partially solved.
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This is not an article about global warming, although it might as well be something like it, but much smaller in scope and potential effect. This article is about that invasive plant species brought over from Europe called the Starry Stonewort
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WHO’S WATER IS IT, ANYWAY? The real truth in responding to such a question about the body or corpus of Geneva Lake is: Nobody
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The days come and go along the shores of Geneva Lake, and the homes along the edges, built on some of the most expensive waterfront property on the planet, evolve and change substantially as new owners acquire the residences.
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The earth under the Yerkes moves, like an earthquake, building into a tsunami.
Let’s go all the way back to when Mr. John Johnson donated the land that the Yerkes Observatory sits on. Mr. Johnson gave the property to the University of Chicago, apparently without restriction…
Little Gems Stone Manor. A rumor started a couple of weeks ago. The rumors involved the coming...
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From precisely seven p.m. through nine-thirty p.m. on Monday night the Town of Linn Plan Commission set out to demonstrate that it is indeed one of those rare bastions for local American politics of the most extraordinary kind.
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Yerkes barricades itself in for the long siege. What is it that the University of Chicago is trying to prove with the Yerkes Observatory? They shut the thing down and boarded up the building. They blockaded the entrance.
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