Opinion
Dear Mount Horeb Area Community Members,
Regular readers of the Mount Horeb Mail know about the increasing struggles school districts, including the Mount Horeb Area School District, are experiencing when attracting and retaining staff; maintaining programs; and paying for increasing costs. These...
Mike Berg, a farmer and truck driver who lives near Blanchardville in Lafayette County, discusses how winding roads in poor condition on the county’s eastern side hinder economic development in that area. Photo by Julian Emerson.
BLANCHARDVILLE – Dairy breakfasts are a revered summertime tradition across Wisconsin, an annual celebration and affirmation of the rural way of life in a state known as “America’s Dairyland.”
But this year the popular dairy breakfast in Lafayette County, in Wisconsin’s southwest corner, was...
On behalf of the Mount Horeb Veterans Memorial Association, we would like to take this opportunity to thank SGT. Josh Jarvis for his help in arranging to have local law enforcement vehicles and the Mount Horeb Fire Department trucks escort the over 40 Wounded Veterans and First Responders...
The Mt. Horeb Pickleball group will be hosting two learning sessions if you would like to learn the basics of Pickleball and get on the courts and try it. Come on Monday night, 9/19, 5:30pm or Saturday morning, 9/24, 10:00am to Viking Park (tennis courts behind the Middle School). Each session...
I’ve been stunned recently when multiple people assumed that I actively use Facebook.
“Do I look like the type of idiot who is wasting their life doing that?” I want to reply.
Sure, I’m an idiot. But I’m not that type of idiot. Sheesh.
Being confused, petty and incorrect are three things I do...
Dear editor,
On behalf of MOHOP (Mount Horeb Pickleball), I’d like to thank all the folks who came out to play, and the many new folks who came to watch our 2nd Annual Round Robin Tourney. A big THANK YOU to the following key players in the Tourney’s success: Todd & Karla Gundlach for...
The 2nd annual MOHOP Pickleball tournament is in the books. On Saturday, August 27, 18 pickleball players in two brackets battled it out for the championship. People came to watch, learn to play, and gather information. I applaud the organizers, volunteers, and players for their sportsmanship,...
There has been a lot of opposition to the construction of the Cardinal Hickory-Creek (CHC) high voltage transmission line and to the proposed gigantic Uplands installation which would place as many as 172, 650 foot high wind turbines, spread over areas of Iowa and Lafayette counties. The opponents...
Dear Dane County Residents:
In the coming weeks and months, you will likely learn more about how public school districts across Wisconsin plan to place operational referendum questions on the November or April ballots. In fact, we expect many school districts in Dane County to do exactly that.
The...
We often use the word ‘breathtaking’, but rarely it is literally true. Not long ago, however, I had an experience when it was, while wading and fly fishing a stream near Spring Green. It was one of those crystalline early mornings of summer, with the world full of promise, and on my second cast a...
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