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Best Finish Ever For Dance Team

The Mount Horeb High School Dance Team started its winter competition and dance season off with its highest ever placement of fifth in its class earning them their first trophy at the Watertown High School Dance Team Invitational on Dec. 14, 2019. They continued the month of December with some...

As Rain Intensifies, Sewage Problems Surge

Thirty-year-old Conner Andrews has swum in Lake Michigan since his childhood days vacationing in Door County. “It was always a huge deal for me to go to the beach and have fun there and enjoy the waves and just being immersed in such a vast, vast body of water,” said Andrews, a Nashotah resident...

Dawn A. McIntosh .

McIntosh Take Over CLE Consulting LLC

Dawn A. McIntosh of Madison recently took the helm of CLE Consulting LLC, forming what is thought to be the county’s first and only solely woman-owned construction firm. Founded in 2013, CLE Consulting was established by Charles Elliott of Verona. Prior to starting CLE Consulting, Elliott had been...

George Joseph Hove

MOUNT HOREB- George Joseph Hove, age 81, of Mount Horeb, passed away on Saturday, January 11, 2020, at William S. Middleton Memorial VA Hospital. He was born on February 20, 1938, in Madison, the son of Perry and Mary (Frye) Hove. George graduated from Stoughton High School in 1956. He married...

Tiffany Rae Olson

MOUNT HOREB - Tiffany Rae Olson, age 38, of Mount Horeb, passed away on Tuesday, January 7, 2020, at UW Hospital from complications of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was born on August 7, 1981, in Elgin, Ill., the daughter of William and Donna (Grim) Olson. Tiffany graduated from Mount Horeb High...

Calendar

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16 Community Clothes Closet open 5:00-7:00pm SUNDAY, JANUARY 19 Lunch Outing-5th Quarter, Verona-Leave at 10:30am. RSVP at 437-6902. Mt. Horeb Senior Center. TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 Bridge, 1:00pm. Mt. Horeb Senior Center Bookmobile, Blue Mounds Village Park, 6:15...

School Board Says Voucher Schools Have Hidden Costs

Dear Mount Horeb Area Community Members, For the first time in our school district’s history, a substantial amount of aid from the State of Wisconsin was diverted from our public schools. According to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, $105,906 from our expected allotment was paid to a...

CCS Says "Thanks"

We at Children’s Community School would like to express our appreciation to the Mt. Horeb Community Foundation for awarding us with a grant to purchase new toddler sized furniture. We are honored to meet the needs of the growing Mt. Horeb community by offering a full day Montessori enriched...

Feral Children

There was a report in Florida (where else could it possibly be?) several years ago, about some neighbors who saw a little girl’s eyes peering out of a broken basement window. She was about seven years old, and according to the authorities who rescued her she had probably never been outside, never...

Deputy Reports On Calls To Primrose Home

PRIMROSE – Regular police activity at a Primrose residence has led to speculation on the circumstances of the visits, prompting the Dane County Sheriff’s Office to make an appearance at Primrose Town Hall. Deputy Christopher Kauer spoke about the “house on the corner” during a Primrose Town Board...