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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...
While the pandemic will prevent the Mt. Horeb Farmers Market from holding their usual November and December indoor markets this year, it will still be possible to purchase produce and other goods from many of the market’s vendors in time for the holidays.
Customers will be able to go to the market’...
Thanksgiving meals will again be delivered this year for seniors and those unable to leave their homes. Please contact the Mount Horeb Senior Center at 437-6902 to find out more. Please call, leave your name, how many meals, address and phone number. Volunteers plan to have meals to people by...
DECORAH, Iowa - Lavern Elvin Hillesland was born Friday, October 22, 1926, in Calmar, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at Calmar Lutheran Church. Vern joined the United States Armed Forces during World War II, serving stateside as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. His military service,...
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