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In a normal year, you could be forgiven for not being able to name your state’s Department of Health Services Secretary-designee. But 2020 was not a normal year, and as the drama, chaos and political clashes of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, Andrea Palm became something of a household name in...
911 Disconnect – 20
911 Open Line – 2
Accidents – 6
1 Accident – Private Property
5 Accident – Property Damage
Alarm – 1
1 Commercial
Animal Complaints – 6
2 Cruelty
4 Stray
Assist Citizen – 18
Assist DCSO – 9
Assist Fire/Police – 15
Attempt to Locate Person – 1
Bail Jumping – 1
Battery – 1...
This morning, I listened to an interview with Craig Harrison, a soldier in the British Army. He described a firefight in the desert, in which he and his compatriots were on the verge of being overrun and killed. “Smashed” is the word he used.
As bullets slammed into the ground, into flesh and into...
120 Years Ago-
Jan. 17, 1901
The not altogether-unlooked-for event, the marriage of our popular banker, T. G. Lingard, and Maren Halferdahl, the much-esteemed milliner at Dahle Bros. store, took place yesterday, Jan. 16, at the Lutheran parsonage with Rev. Holte officiating.
Electric lights were...
Thank you to Chair Dennis Jelle and the Town of Blue Mounds Board for providing their monthly board meetings on ZOOM. During the current pandemic, the Board makes it safe for Town residents to stay involved and informed. It’s a great public service. I realize it has some cost as well as a bit of...
Veteran’s of Foreign War member are deeply grateful for the generous grant that the Mt. Horeb Community Foundation has bequeathed to us for 2021! During this Covid-19 pandemic, the VFW Post has been unable to hold our popular Steak Dinner nights at the club, so our revenue flow has suffered. A...
Most of us would not consider the year 2020 to be one full of blessings. But in our congregation and in many others across the country blessings still abound with some coming about as a direct result of the pandemic, the justice issues surfaced of late and the political turmoil. Through local...
Public Health Madison & Dane County continues to match Tier 1A frontline healthcare workers who are not affiliated with a major health system to vaccinators in an effort to help them get the COVID-19 vaccine.
These healthcare workers, by definition, have risk of exposure to COVID-19 and include...
Brad and Roseann Murphy, Mount Horeb, were married on December 26th,1970 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. They celebrated their golden anniversary with a special lobster and clam dinner at home with their son Kristopher Murphy, his wife Sarah, and granddaughters, Iris and Ava. Though small and...
Balta, North Dakota and the Philippines-Thomas Owen McMahan, age 62, passed away on Sunday, January 10, 2021 in the Heart of America Medical Hospice Center, Rugby, North Dakota. He was born December 8, 1958, in Dodgeville, Wisconsin to William and Fern (Hamilton) McMahan.
He is survived by his...
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