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Once upon a time, there was a horse so wild people were scared to ride him. He was a barrel-chested bay quarter horse and in his early years people brought him elk hunting out west. When they threw the dead animal on his back to haul to camp, he took off and disappeared into that vast wilderness...
For all of human history, for however many hundreds of thousands – or even millions – of years we have walked the Earth, we have known, not just in our minds, but in our bodies and our bones, that the world around us does not bend to our whims and desires. The fabric of reality is not a cloak we...
What a
wonderful
Art Fair
Dear editor,
Wow, what a wonderful 2023 MH Art Fair it was!!! Precious Metal Kreations and Ivy K Designs have had a booth at the art fair for years past as well as the past two years. We would like to give praise to Jessie Bedward for her expertise at coordinating this...
Dear editor,
On behalf of the PFLAG Mt. Horeb Executive Board, I would like to thank the Mt. Horeb community for their show of support during Pride month in June. We thank the families, churches and organizations who joined us in the Frolic Parade. We thank all the folks on the parade route who...
America is a beautiful, crazy, creative and often confused and fear-filled place – the word “intense” comes to mind. And what better way to immerse oneself in our schizophrenic beauty than in that quintessentially American mode of transportation, the car. I did so recently - three weeks through...
The Mt. Horeb Sustainability and Natural Resources (SNR) Committee was formed in December 2022, and we were able to take advantage of the spring election to informally survey all of you about your opinions on sustainability. We wanted to know what sustainability practices you already engage in, and...
During the month of May, approximately 400, mostly fourth grade students, spent their day at the District #1 School, on 2nd Street in Mt Horb. Students were emerged in an 1893 Wisconsin School Life and Home Life Program. The program was successful due to the time, work and support of the following...
When it comes to the topic of employment, some adults ponder and respond with, “Heck, I still do not know what I want to be when I grow up.”
Many may say this in jest, but there is often some underlying truth to their response. It can be difficult for a person of any age to determine their...
My daughter threw a lot of cheese at people on a recent Sunday afternoon, only confirming something I’ve long suspected: If something comes out of a cow in Wisconsin, people will eventually pick it up and give it a fling.
When I first moved here many years ago, one of my first jobs as a reporter...
When Madison Metropolitan School District communications director Tim LeMonds sued his employer in March to block release of a complaint against him, he claimed there would be grave repercussions if the public were allowed to see the allegations it contained.
Access to the documents, LeMonds’...
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