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Proposals to change Wisconsin’s voting system could determine how one of America’s top swing states picks congressional candidates, how it awards its 10 Electoral College votes, how fast results can be announced and who can use the increasingly popular method of absentee voting.
But the political...
The Mount Horeb Village Board flexed its considerable land use powers last year when the neighboring Town of Blue Mounds declined to come to the table and come up with a joint vision regarding the future of development there.
While the move swiftly achieved its intended effect, giving Mount Horeb...
Moody’s Investors Service has assigned an Aa3 rating to the Village of Mount Horeb’s $2.3 million General Obligation Promissory Notes and $1.9 million Taxable General Obligation Refunding Bonds.
Aa3 ratings indicate that a municipality is judged to be on sound financial footing with very low...
A lot has changed over the past two weeks, but it looks like next month public school in Mount Horeb will look more “normal” than it has in over a year. At least, for some students.
Many people expected the school board to vote on Monday of last week on whether to send most or all students back to...
A local artist’s work was recently honored by 4-H. Jenna Crolla, a member of the Springdale 4-H Club and a senior at Mount Horeb High School, entered an art piece into the 2020 Wisconsin 4-H Foundation Art Contest, which had more than 150 outstanding entries. The panel of judges granted her piece...
On March 4, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and laboratory partners identified a second variant strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in Wisconsin. This variant strain differs from variant B.1.1.7, which was first identified in Wisconsin on January 12, 2021.
The newest...
The Dane County Sheriff’s Office Marine and Trail Enforcement personnel want to alert ice anglers and winter sports enthusiasts of deteriorating ice conditions on our Dane County waterways. Recent warm temperatures, with predictions for temperatures near 60 degrees early next week, are causing...
Mount Horeb’s girls gymnastics team finished second at the WIAA Division 2 state meet last Saturday. On top (front, from left) are junior Ella Peterson, freshman Violet Statz and senior Grace O’Neil. In back (from left) are juniors Sydney Stoenner and Lexie Weier./Photo courtesy of Jason McMahon
Every season, Mount Horeb’s girls gymnastics team picks a motto to rally around.
In this wild, wacky year — one in which Mount Horeb wasn’t sure it would have a season until January — the Vikings chose ‘Stronger Together.’
“I felt it was very fitting back in November when we were uncertain about...
Mount Horeb senior libero Abby Steinhauer is a three-year starter who was named honorable-mention all-conference last year. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld
The wait is over.
And Mount Horeb girls volleyball coach Kurt Owen is giddy thinking about what the next six weeks could entail.
The Vikings’ season typically runs in the fall. Due to COVID, though, the WIAA gave teams the option of postponing fall sports to the spring, and Mount Horeb elected to...
The Verona-Mount Horeb girls swimming and diving team edged Janesville Craig, 106-64, last Friday. The meet was in-person instead of virtual, which Wildcats’ coach Bill Wuerger said was a boost for his swimmers.
In fact, 39 of the Wildcats’ 45 swins were season-bests.
“The girls swam well,” Wuerger...
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