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120 Years Ago-
Oct. 18, 1900
Ole Sale and Ole Olson sped to the capital city and back on their bikes last Sunday.
S. G. Gesme sports a neat and lively team of roadsters.
Bert Holmes left the employ of W. F. Scott this week in a rather unpleasant and unexpected manner.
There is not as much politics...
The National High School Activities Month will recognize coaches like Mount Horeb’s Tom Lesar the week of Oct. 18-24.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused everyone to hit the pause button on life. During the stoppage and forced time away from routines, many people have come to appreciate the important things in life – family, friends and faith among others.
Still, the loss of some routines and regular activities hurt...
Patrick Mahomes, the Super Bowl MVP in February, was a three-sport athlete at Whitehouse High School in Texas. Mahomes nearly quit football as a junior in high school to focus on baseball, but his mother talked him out of it.
Patrick Mahomes is an anomaly, a once-in-a-generation athlete who kept all of his coaches at Whitehouse High School on edge about his future.
That, however, wasn’t intentional.
“We all understood that Patrick was good at all of them,” says Adam Cook, Patrick’s head football coach at Whitehouse, who...
The Wisconsin Elections Commission reminds voters that if they don’t have an acceptable photo ID, they still have time to get one to vote.
“If you don’t have an acceptable photo ID, you can get one for free after just one visit to a Wisconsin DMV office through the ID Petition Process,” said Meagan...
A group of citizens in the Mount Horeb Area School District this morning filed a statement of intent to recall Mount Horeb Area School District Board of Education member Leah Lipska.
Lipska was the supervisor who called the special meeting at which the board cancelled in-person classes shortly...
Potential changes to absentee voting in Wisconsin will come before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the coming days. The 7th Circuit Appellate Court, while debating a lower court ruling, asked the upper court to intervene.
The legal process has been convoluted.
On September 21, Judge William M....
The proposed 2021 Dane County Budget unveiled by county executive Joe Parisi late last week includes an operating budget of $615.5 million (a 3.68 increase). The capital budget is $71.6 million (a 2.92 percent increase). The budget includes a levy (tax) increase of 4.09 percent.
The total budget is...
The first presidential debate was a disgrace. In a world where basic facts are regularly disputed, there are few who would argue with this assessment.
Given the tone of civic discourse over the past four years and the truculent personality of the president, a sharp and combative debate was expected...
The first Presidential Debate last night was neither “Presidential” nor a “Debate.” It was a pit fight between a killer Pit Bull and a sensible Border Collie. The only way this can be a fair and educational “Debate” is if the
contestants are in separate rooms and their microphones are turned off...
A big thank you to Miller and Sons Supermarket for everything you do to make grocery shopping safer for all of us during this time of Coronavirus.
Like so many other folks over 70, we really appreciate the time and effort you are investing in providing on-line grocery ordering and curbside pickup...
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