Bill Livick, a former Unified Newspaper Group reporter and editor who also served as a freelance restaurant reviewer for The (Janesville) Gazette, died Friday, June 18, after suffering a heart attack. He was 65.

Livick earned his journalism degree from UW-Madison in 1990 and went on to teach high school journalism and English on a Navajo reservation in Gallup, N.M. He returned to Wisconsin in 2000, joining UNG as a reporter and starting his freelance role with his hometown paper, The Gazette.

After several years covering the education beat in Oregon and Verona, Livick was named Oregon Observer editor in 2006, succeeding Jim Winter. He held the role until 2011, when he returned to reporting. He covered local government and politics until retiring in November 2018.

Beverly E. Connor, who was a longtime reporter for The (Fox Lake) Representative, died Monday, June 14, after a battle with bone cancer. She was 76.

Connor, who earned her accounting degree from Madison Business College, worked in accounting, finance, office and business management for most of her life. In 1993, she moved to Fox Lake and got her start in community journalism as a reporter for The Representative. She also handled advertising for the weekly newspaper, where she remained through her retirement, which coincided with The Representative's final issue on Dec. 25, 2014.