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The Mount Horeb Area School District Board of Education last week held the first reading of an anti-racism statement that the superintendent said is “the next evolutionary step in the district’s efforts to advance equity for all.” While the board appeared supportive of the overall message, it did...
A Mount Horeb man, accused murdering a jogger earlier this year was found not competent Monday to stand trial on homicide and use of a dangerous weapon charges.
In October, Riley L. Berg, 22, had been found competent to stand trial for allegedly shooting and slashing the neck of Nicholas Day, of...
The Mount Horeb Village Board in the summer voted to expand its sidewalk café program and provide grant money to help buttress local eateries during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, the board approved two action items to help restaurants, and one of them led to enhanced outdoor options...
120 Years Ago-
Nov. 15, 1900
Nils Vingum and family moved into the rooms vacated by the editor and his family yesterday.
Ayen & Opsal have been moving buildings for Gesme & Field this and last week.
The Dixie Jubilee singers at the opera house last Tuesday evening were good, and it was...
The Dane County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the 2021 county budget at their meeting Monday night. The operating budget totals $615,596,386. The capital budget is $80,789,300. The budget includes a tax levy increase of 3.4 percent.
The annual budget process takes place each October and...
I was driving through Mount Vernon recently, when the sun, which looked like it was just up ahead, dipped below the horizon. Like a mammoth blood orange sinking slowly to the bottom of a celestial sea, it was so stunning that it seemed, as it usually does, far more special than most things that...
The online edition of the Mount Horeb Mail shows that our State Assembly rep won with almost 70 percent of the vote in the Village. Congratulations. One question of conscience though: After the death of George Floyd there was an outpouring of support in Mt Horeb for black lives. Some businesses...
The overwhelming support for the fair maps advisory referendum in Iowa County proves that there is still some precious common ground across the political divide. The margins of victory in the races between candidates in local and national elections come nowhere close to the 73.8% margin of victory...
On Nov. 6 the Wisconsin District III Court of Appeals ruled that an executive order limiting public indoor gatherings to 25 percent capacity was “invalid and unenforceable” in a split decision.
The court had blocked Executive Order #3 issued by Secretary-Designee of the Wisconsin Department of...
The Drifltess Historium invites fans of the nationally-syndicated PBS farm adventure series, “Around the Farm Table” to a live, virtual cooking demo and conversation with host Inga Witscher, straight from her Osseo, Wisconsin dairy farm on Saturday, November 21 at 2:00 p.m. Inga will take a maximum...
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