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Pam Allen during a special ceremony at Mount Horeb High School on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
Mount Horeb Welding Teacher Wins 2026 Harbor Freight Tools For Schools Prize For Teaching Excellence
Pam Allen, a Agricultural Sciences Instructor and FFA leader at Mount Horeb High School, has been named a winner of the 2026 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, winning $75,000 for her school’s program. She was honored in a surprise ceremony at the high school last...
Louisa Strohl became the Mount Horeb Senior Center’s new Social Work Case Manager on July 20, and director Joan Laundy said she has settled in nicely to the position.
Strohl’s job is vast and varied, but at its heart it’s all about helping people.
“My main jobs are connecting people with...
The Board of Education updated its policy regarding the use of unmanned aircraft over school grounds. The board met for its biweekly regular meeting September 8, where it approved Board Policy #732, “Use of Unmanned Aircraft (Drones),” and revisions to Board Policy #732, “Buildings and Grounds...
The Mount Horeb Vikings celebrated Homecoming in style Friday with a pep rally, the annual parade (above) and the evening’s football game. See more from the festive parade on page 9. Photo by Matt Geiger.
Dave Laufenberg with his dog, Tui, who originally came from the Assiniboine and Sioux Indian Reservation in Wolf Point, Montana. They are pictured on land that was recently home to two plants - corn and soy - and now boasts around 200 species. Photo by Matt Geiger.
“Farming is this beautiful intersection of all things,” says Dave Laufenberg. “Everything comes together on the farm.”
Standing in a pasture brimming with life, his words echo those of iconic writer Wendell Berry: “My basic assumption when talking about agriculture is that there’s more to it than...
Laurence Kruckman with Carolyn White. Photo contributed.
A new book published by Little Creek Press on August 15 shines a light on the people and places that make this region special. Readers of the Mount Horeb Mail will likely recognize some of these tales by Laurence Kruckman, which have appeared as his “Village Vignettes” in these pages.
Kruckman...
Rob Reischel, Sports Editor for the Mount Horeb Mail, recently received a Professional Football Writers of America Dick Connor Writing Award.
In addition to his work for Finger Publishing, which owns the Mail, Reischel covers the Green Bay Packers for Conley Media and Forbes Sports.
The Connor...
How can we have conversations that bring us together rather than drive us further apart in an era of increasing political, algorithmic, and social polarization? Join UW-Madison political scientist Katherine Cramer at the Mount Horeb Public Library Tuesday, September 22 at 6:30pm as she explores...
Though you've likely heard of the Louisiana Purchase, chances are you haven't thought about it in years—if ever. But this landmark land deal reshaped the future of the United States, transformed the lives of the Indigenous nations who called these lands home, and forever changed the course of early...
Author S. K. Kruse is back with not one, but two new books that delve into the very essence of what it means to be human. In Of Beginnings and Ends, Kruse explores liminal ideas, spaces and states of being. In the story, a woman named Evy returns again and again to the vast and luminous Hall of...
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