Opinion

“Perhaps you hate a thing that is good for you, and perhaps you love a thing that is bad for you.” -Quran 2:216 Yesterday afternoon, my daughter and I took our dog, Cowboy, and strolled down to the corner store by our house. We left Cowboy under a tree on a nice patch of grass, where he sprawled...
A commentary by Secretary Randy Romanski of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) June Dairy Month is a special time in Wisconsin. As summer starts, we celebrate the many hardworking Wisconsin farmers and processors who make our state a leading source for...
My nine-year-old daughter calls getting out of school “getting loose.” Like she’s Andy Dufresne, crawling through a sewage pipe under the Shawshank State Prison. Like a bonobo that scaled a fence at the zoo. “We got loose at 3:15 today,” she says, like that’s what time they snuck in some bolt...

Monarch caterpillar feeding on native butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa). Photo by the author. 

The growing season is here! Flower blooms burst with color and shades of green cover the landscape as warmth and longer daylight surrounds us. Does this burgeoning life encourage you to create beauty and habitat for native pollinators? What better way to welcome the growing season in our community...
No Mow May has provided 25 acres of increased habitat for vital pollinators Our initial goal of the No Mow May proposal was for one hundred households to participate. We ran out of our first 100 yard signs and ordered about 50 more! We estimate the initiative will provide 25-30 acres of increased...
Nothing beats growing up on a farm, when it comes to life lessons. If you aren’t lucky enough for that, you can come close by having lots of pets. We got new chicks this spring, little balls of down that will grow into squawking, egg-laying, feathered dinosaurs. We wanted four, so I ordered five,...
MoHo is ready to play Pickleball! Thank you to the Village Board, the Parks, Recreation & Forestry Commission and Jeff Gorman for approving the reconstruction of the courts at Viking Park (Middle School)!  The Mount Horeb Pickleball (MOHOP) community is ready to raise $30,000 to meet the...
Throughout the year, kids and parents alike look for little milestones inching them closer to the end of the school year. In the month of May, one of these is the distribution of the Berohbok. Students collect their copies and wander the halls looking for their pictures, signing each other’s...
Throughout the year, kids and parents alike look for little milestones inching them closer to the end of the school year. In the month of May, one of these is the distribution of the Berohbok. Students collect their copies and wander the halls looking for their pictures, signing each other’s...
Throughout the year, kids and parents alike look for little milestones inching them closer to the end of the school year. In the month of May, one of these is the distribution of the Berohbok. Students collect their copies and wander the halls looking for their pictures, signing each other’s...

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