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Tom Lesar and Mount Horeb's girls basketball team began play this week. File photo
They’re baaacccckkkk — and boy are they happy about it.
The Mount Horeb School Board recently approved the return of winter sports, with all games to be played outside of Dane County. And the Vikings girls basketball team got back in the gym last week and began preparing for a handful of games that...
Cody Anderson and Mount Horeb’s wrestlers will begin their season Friday with a dual meet at Lancaster. File photo
Josh Hinze’s happy place has always been the wrestling room and the weight room at Mount Horeb High School.
So naturally, Hinze — the Vikings’ wrestling coach — was one happy camper last week.
Last week, Mount Horeb’s School Board gave the Vikings clearance to begin competitions for all winter...
Verona/Mount Horeb boys swimming coach Bill Wuerger led the Wildcats past Middleton in a ‘virtual’ dual meet last Friday and Saturday. News Publishing Co. photo by Mary Langenfeld
It had been nearly 11 months since the Verona Area/Mount Horeb boys’ swimming co-op program was able to ramp up its competitive juices.
But the lengthy wait finally came to an end last week.
Following a season-opening triple dual Jan. 5 at Sauk Prairie along with Madison Edgewood, the Wildcats...
Emergency medical service (EMS) agencies across Dane County - including 54 first responders from Mount Horeb (pictured above) - are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. Public Health Madison & Dane County is administering the vaccinations at the Alliant Energy Center. EMS personnel are receiving...
As one election season rolls to a close, another looms on the horizon. The Spring Election, which will lack the spectacle and bombast of the recent presidential campaigns, will allow voters to decide who will run their local municipalities, and their local school district, for the coming terms. The...
The Mount Horeb Village Board held its first meeting of 2021 on Wednesday, Jan. 6.
The board unanimously approved both an ordinance providing for the annexation of the land as well as an actual annexation agreement for the new Kwik Trip proposal. Lastly, the board changed the land’s zoning to PB...
This holiday season, Mike Larson was delivering hams to tenents in the vaious rental units he oversees in Mount Horeb.
When it was over, he had extra, so the food pantry at Neighbors Helping Neighbors received 70 pounds of free hams to distribute to their clients, as well. Pictured here, Chloe...
Pocan.
United States Rep. Mark Pocan was watching live television footage of the violence that erupted at the nation’s Capital last week. As he viewed history unfolding on the screens in front of him – the last time the seat of the country’s government was invaded like this was in 1812, by British troops...
The village board voted unanimously last week to table consideration of a drafted mission and vision statement, after a board member raised concerns that the proposed statement did not contain wording about “diversity and inclusion.”
The draft statement grew out of a collaborative effort in 2019,...
The Village of Mount Horeb voted last week not to repeal the extraterritorial zoning ordinance that gives it significant power over land use in the neighboring Town of Blue Mounds.
“I think the first meeting [of a recently formed joint zoning committee with Blue Mounds] went fairly well,” village...
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