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120 Years Ago- Nov. 8, 1900 J.T. Mithus has taken the job of painting the Lutheran Church and has employed Steeple Jack to assist with high altitude work. They commenced Monday. Fred Allen of Mt. Vernon is building a new icehouse. It brings to the little ones that priceless gift of healthy flesh,...
To all Wisconsinites, I would like to start this off by saying that Gov. Evers, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barns, and DOC Secretary Kevin Carr are failing to keep the citizens of Wisconsin and the people within their prisons and jails safe from the covid-19 virus. As we speak the covid-19 virus is spreading...
Given how much there is to think about in the world, I’m a little disheartened by how much of my mental energy has been going into toilet paper math. A few months ago, when the pandemic began, there was a run on toilet paper, most stores ran out, and you sort of had to just buy whatever lonely pack...
Does a much-publicized new law strip journalists and the public of the right to information? A recent statement by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association says it shouldn’t. In April of this year, the Wisconsin electorate approved Marsy’s Law, which had passed the Wisconsin Legislature in two...
Before we get to your writing, tell me a little about your life. What is your background and how did it inform your work as an author?   I am a Wisconsin native.  I grew up in the Town of Vermont on a farm,  not far from Mount Horeb. I went to school at the University of Wisconsin, where I earned...
The Town of Springdale will hold a public hearing on the proposed 2021 budget on Thursday, November 19 at 7 p.m. via Zoom web conference. Springdale citizens are welcome and are encouraged to participate in the hearing.   The budget as proposed includes $1,003,138 in revenues and expenditures, a...
A recent vote by the Mount Horeb Area Board of Education gave local families the option of sending their young children to school two days per week, and a subsequent survey of families shows the majority will choose to do so.  An estimated 60 percent of students in grades K-2 will utilize the...
Wisconsin had 2,408 active polling places on November 3, following extended periods of both mail-in voting and in-person absentee voting at local municipal buildings across the state. Election Day came and went Tuesday, but voting is not the end. In fact, it is just the beginning.  There are three...
In the spring, John Kahl planted 250 acres of soybeans and corn. One summer Sunday in June, he died unexpectedly. It was remarkable, say those who knew him, what a big hole such a quiet man could leave behind. But even in death, life persists. Those tiny sprouts continued aspiring to the sky, even...

Torin Hannah and Mount Horeb’s boys basketball team are scheduled to start their season on Nov. 23. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld

Monday had turned to Tuesday, and Kolleen Nesheim knew she should be getting some much-needed sleep. Instead, Mount Horeb’s athletic director couldn’t turn her brain off. After seven months without home runs and touchdowns, devoid of triple jumps, stolen bases and birdies, everything suddenly...

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