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Mount Horeb native Johanna Gorman-Baer is currently a resident teaching artist at Children’s Theatre Company, the nation’s largest and most acclaimed theatre for young people. It creates theatre experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire for more than 250,000 people annually. CTC is the only ...
On Tuesday, September 19 at 6 p.m., Mount Horeb’s Driftless Historium (100 S. 2nd St.) will host Corey Geiger (pictured above in 1983), dairy farmer, 28-year Hoard’s Dairyman editor, and author of On a Wisconsin Family Farm: Historic Tales of Character, Community and Culture and its recently...
People often associate the infamous Ku Klux Klan (KKK) with acts of bigotry-fueled domestic terrorism that occurred exclusively in the American South a very long time ago. But in truth, the Klan’s tendrils stretched further north, and much deeper into the 20th Century, than many realize.
The KKK...
The village board reviewed the 2024 Fire Department and EMS budget, considered pollination gardens, approved the senior center remodel bid, added a parking space, applied for exception from the county library tax, and approved a driveway plan and a parking spot last week.
Pollination gardens...
Facing immeasurable pain and loss thirteen years ago, a group of people in Mount Horeb needed something to smile about. They wanted a place free from angst, anger, politics and pessimism. They wanted to come together and build a “Happy Place.” So they did.
The inspiration for the Happy Place, which...
Wisconsin’s biennial budget includes a hefty increase in funding for local municipalities. Starting this summer, a full penny of the sales tax, equaling more than $1.5 billion, will end up in the coffers of local government, providing funds that can be used for law enforcement, fire protection, EMS...
The Wednesday Night Live (WNL) concert series crossed the quarter-century mark last year, then returned in July and August of 2023 with a brand new slate of performers that ranged across vast musical styles and genres. The summer weather was nearly perfect, the rain stayed away, and sizeable crowds...
It was the hottest day of the year on Wednesday last week, with temperatures in Mount Horeb soaring to 98 degrees. While some curmudgeons chose to complain about the heat, many local kids instead used it as an excuse to fill the day with aquatic fun. Pictured above, Reid Tryba hangs in the air for...
The board discussed post-high school preparation, graduation rates, attendance rates, student volunteering and summer school at their August 21 meeting.
Director of Student Services Brian Johnson and Director of Curriculum and Instruction Sara Straka presented a report on observed graduation and...
The Village of Mount Horeb has seen a recent uptick in annoying “nuisance-type” offenses by youth, including multiple eggings. In some cases, local authorities have been able to crack the case. In others, they are still digging. “[W]e have had an issue with nuisance-type offenses such as ringing...