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Grace Vesperman and Mount Horeb’s girls basketball team upended Middleton on Feb. 6. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld

BARNEVELD – Julia Magnuson and her fellow seniors on Mount Horeb’s girls basketball team were ready for this moment. The quartet just didn’t expect their Senior Night celebration to be held during a pandemic and in a gym off campus. But the Mount Horeb seniors made it an even more memorable night...

Tyler Banfield and Mount Horeb’s boys basketball team fell to Edgerton on Feb. 5. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld

The road will be brutal. But at least Mount Horeb’s boys basketball team is part of the race. The Vikings received the No. 5 seed in their six-team postseason pod. Mount Horeb will face fourth-seeded Madison Edgewood in a WIAA Division 2 regional quarterfinal on Feb. 16 at a site to be determined....
Mount Horeb’s Jax and Brooks Pernot gave a valiant effort at the WIAA Division 1 Mukwonago wrestling sectional last Saturday. In the end, though, the two Vikings’ standouts fell just short of state. Both Vikings went 2-2 on the day and settled for fifth place overall. The top two wrestlers from...

Erik Peterson and Sauk Prairie’s co-op hockey team defeated Reedsburg in a regional final. Photo submitted

For one night, Hakon Peterson played hero. And boy, was it enjoyable for both Peterson and Sauk Prairie’s co-op hockey team. Peterson, a forward from Mount Horeb, scored the game-winning goal with just more than two minutes left and lifted the Eagles to a 3-2 win over Reedsburg’s co-op team in a...
While many of the festival’s events went virtual or took a year off due to the pandemic, the Scandihoovian Fat Tire Races at Norsk Golf Club took place in-person Saturday despite brisk winter weather. The winners of the first race were: Phil Carlson (first place); Javier Perez (second place); Brad...
The Mount Horeb Village Board could soon refinance some of the community’s debt in an attempt to capitalize on historically low interest rates.  Speaking to the village board last week, Baird financial group’s Kevin Mullen noted that the village plans to borrow roughly $1.5 million for capital...
The truancy laws used for years to prevent local students from skipping school were written long before anyone had ever heard of social distancing, before people wore facemasks to the grocery store, and long before countless students switched from in-person to virtual classes. As a result, local...
Wisconsin voters will have plenty to choose from in the primary for State Superintendent of Schools. On Feb. 16, voters will head to the polls to whittle down the field of seven candidates. The top vote-getters will advance to the general election on April 6. That winner will ultimately become the...
The Mount Horeb Village Board has approved a request by a local restaurant to use the public alleyway next to its establishment again this year, after the owner says doing so in 2020 helped Skål Public House avoid becoming one of the countless businesses that succumbed to the economic fallout from...
As community and government leaders in Mount Horeb continue to discuss the issue of affordable housing, the local library, in conjunction with village leaders, plans to host a virtual community discussion on the subject on Tuesday, March 16 at 6:30 p.m.  The panelists will include Professor Kurt...

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