As mentioned in previous columns, I grew up in a family that never missed watching "The Lawrence Welk Show" every weekend. So when I saw a wire report that Norma Zimmer, Lawrence Welk's popular ...

Lawrence elected officials and civic professionals speaking during a panel Monday identified trends they say disrupt the ...

Get ready for great music, great laughs, and of course, lots of bubbles! If you are old enough to remember “champagne music,” you might have watched the Lawrence Welk Show airing every Saturday night ...

My parents Chester and Peggy suggested I share with readers a wire obituary because they definitely found it of interest. They were surprised when I told them of the death of Joe Feeney, the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Joe Feeney, a Nebraska-born tenor who crooned "Danny Boy" and other standards for 25 years on "The Lawrence Welk Show," has died. He was 76. Feeney died of emphysema on April 16 at ...

I occasionally watch the old Lawrence Welk variety show. If you were a kid in the l950s, it’s a real time warp to see it again. There he is in the ether of TV reruns. I view the show these days like a ...

The year was 1955. Ike was in the White House, Disneyland had just opened, and rock and roll was starting to rattle the rafters. But you wouldn’t find any swiveling hips or hound dogs howling on ...

Robert D. Welk, Jr., 70, of Wethersfield, passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 1, 2025. Born and raised in East Hartford, he was the son of the late Robert D. Welk, Sr. and Mary Ellen (Monroe) Welk.

We’re just home from a Lawrence Welk weekend, and by that I mean, total immersion in all things Welk. Three things came together. First, the debut screening of the new Welk documentary by Prairie ...

The State Historical Society of North Dakota will celebrate a decade of managing the Welk Homestead State Historic Site with a free public event on Sunday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The "Life on ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – From his perch on a stage colored in pastel hues, Lawrence Welk led his band on a bubble-filled romp of champagne music that lasted more than 30 years until his retirement in 1982 at ...