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Suspected burglar flees after entering Mount Horeb home

A suspected burglar entered a local home on a recent Sunday morning, but was scared off by the woman who lives there. Early on the morning of March 14, police were called to a house on Fourth Street for a residential burglary in progress. When they arrived, they were informed that a woman had been... Continue Reading

EP Graphics

EP Graphics is a graphic printing company specializing in product labels, decals, vehicle graphics, stickers, signs, banners, apparel and more. Owner Eric Prehn celebrated the start of his local business with a ribbon cutting on April 1 at the offices of the Mount Horeb Area Chamber of Commerce.... Continue Reading

Government

Clean sweep for incumbents in Spring Election

It was a good night for incumbents in local races as the Spring Election results rolled in Tuesday evening. In the Town of Springdale, incumbent town... Continue Reading

Barrett named new Dane County Sheriff

Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Kalvin D. Barrett as Dane County Sheriff. The appointment fills a vacancy created by Sheriff David J. Mahoney’s... Continue Reading

School

Emily Fountas is ‘Someone You Should Know’

Emily was chosen as the Optimist Club’s high school recipient of the “Someone You Should Know” award for outstanding community service for the month of March. Fountas is a senior at Mt. Horeb High School and has been an active member in the band program, starting in... Continue Reading

Xander Strube is ‘Someone You Should Know’

Xander was chosen as the Optimist Club’s high school recipient of the “Someone You Should Know” award for outstanding community service for the month of March. Strube is a senior at Mt. Horeb High School. Xander has been an active member in the band program, starting... Continue Reading

Announcements

26 Momentous Mount Horeb Moments Featured in Editor's Photo Show

“0.026 Seconds: The Magnitude of Small Moments” features 26 photographs—representing a literal 0.026 seconds—taken by Matt Geiger over the course of his eight-year tenure as Editor of the Mount Horeb Mail. This exhibit is now showing through Sunday, May 16, 2021 in the Driftless Historium’s awning-... Continue Reading

US 18/151 "safety improvement" project begins Monday, Mount Horeb to Ridgeway

Safety improvements will begin Monday (April 12) on US 18/151, between the County JG overpass in Mount Horeb and County BB near Ridgeway, in Dane and Iowa counties. The $1.9 million project will install high-tension cable barriers in the highway median. Single lane closures are anticipated in both... Continue Reading

News

26 Momentous Mount Horeb Moments Featured in Editor's Photo Show

Images on display now at the Driftless Historium

“0.026 Seconds: The Magnitude of Small Moments” features 26 photographs—representing a literal 0.026 seconds—taken by Matt Geiger over the course of his eight-year tenure as Editor of the Mount Horeb Mail. This exhibit is now showing through Sunday, May 16, 2021 in the Driftless Historium’s awning-... Continue Reading
Clean sweep for incumbents in Spring Election

It was a good night for incumbents in local races as the Spring Election results rolled in Tuesday evening. In the Town of Springdale, incumbent town chairman Michael Fagan (466 votes) defeated challenger William Garfoot (207 votes). In the race for the Town Supervisor 1 seat, incumbent John... Continue Reading

Barrett named new Dane County Sheriff

Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Kalvin D. Barrett as Dane County Sheriff. The appointment fills a vacancy created by Sheriff David J. Mahoney’s... Continue Reading

This small but mighty motion capture studio's Mount Horeb connection

In 2017, Mount Horeb became home to the only independent motion capture studio in the midwest. Having temporarily moved to Middleton, Mad Marker... Continue Reading

Different visions for the future of Springdale

Two contested races will determine the rural township's fate

There will be two contested races in the Town of Springdale on April 6. Challenger William Garfoot and incumbent Michael Fagan will square off for... Continue Reading

Sports

‘We won’t give up’: Vikings show heart in blowout loss
Bill Cooney
MCFARLAND – The final outcome had long been decided, and the only thing left to play for was pride. That’s when the Mount Horeb-Barneveld prep... Continue Reading
Highlights from cross country, golf, volleyball and soccer
Dennis Semrau
The Mount Horeb boys and girls cross country teams traveled to Oregon for a dual meet last Saturday. Oregon swept both the boys and girls individual... Continue Reading
Inside unprecedented seasons for local swim teams
Dennis Semrau
It was a reversal of seasons that Bill Wuerger didn’t dream was possible when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down sports for Mount Horeb and Verona Area... Continue Reading
Zoey Parker helped Mount Horeb’s girls volleyball team win a pair of matches last week. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld

MoHo spikers are rolling

Vikings top Monroe and Beaver Dam

Rob Reischel | robreischel@gmail.com
Amazingly, the girls volleyball postseason is rapidly approaching. And the good news for Mount Horeb is it’s playing terrific volleyball when it... Continue Reading

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Perspective

Record location fees invite abuses

Bill Lueders

It happens all the time. A member of the public or representative of the press will file a request under Wisconsin’s open records law, which applies to all state and local government entities. But instead of records, the requester gets a bill. “The city will require pre-payment in full before we... Continue Reading

Questions for the school board...

Mike Badger, Mount Horeb

I read the very informative article regarding the School Board President Mr. Hise. I did vote for him in the early voting period. A couple questions the Mount Horeb Mail did not ask. Did teachers who did not work get paid? The workers at local grocery stores, for example, did not miss a beat and... Continue Reading

Working to get veterans vaccinated

Jerry Hook

To assist the veteran community in Mount Horeb we coordinated with the Public Affairs Officer at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison to have them talk to us about enrollment in VA Healthcare, and the latest on the COVID Vaccine at the VA. Recently, the Mount Horeb... Continue Reading

Naturally Speaking

Jerry Davis

There are dozens of spring flowers, particularly among wind-pollinated plants, which barely resemble flowers based on our memory of grade school tulips we drew. The inverse occurs, too, vegetative plant growths that resemble flowers but are no more a flower than a head of cabbage or a deep-fried... Continue Reading

Springdale needs solid land use planning

David Schmidt

Regarding the election for Town Board in Springdale: In last week’s Mount Horeb Mail there was a letter stating that the Springdale Land Use Plan is too controlling and its application is dependent on the requester. As a former member of the Town of Springdale Plan Commission I can state this is... Continue Reading

Gleaning

Gleanings

Barb Johnson

130 Years Ago- April 2, 1891 Dane County Sun Dr. D. E. Soule is roaming around like a lone widower, his wife having gone to Mukwonago, visiting friends. The “grippe” has laid siege to a good many in the Riley Station area. The new meat market fell through, one of the parties threw up the sponge a... Continue Reading

Gleanings

120 Years Ago- March 28, 1901 Andrew Oberg has sold his grubbing outfit to Erick Matson and son. Miss Signa Thoreson is now a stenographer in Wooton & Engeset’s office in Madison. The proposed stockholders of the new bank met at Berg’s hall last Saturday to discuss plans of organization, and... Continue Reading

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