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Dane County Board chair Patrick Miles last week announced the appointment of Chad Kemp to replace Mike Bare in the District 32 county supervisor seat. Bare, a Democrat, had been serving as both the District 80 State Assembly representative and the District 32 Dane County Board supervisor for more...
Pictured above, Hunter Rue and Alexa Ouradnik riding in the 2022 Homecoming parade. File photo by Matt Geiger.
The 2023 homecoming parade will take place on Friday, October 13th. Start time for the parade will be approximately 2:45 - fifteen minutes after the pep rally at the high school.
The route will start on Academy Street in front of the Primary Center. From there it will take a left onto Fourth...
June 14, 1931 – September 16, 2023
Charles “Chuck” Albon Morkri, of Verona, Wisconsin passed away on September 16, 2023, after a brief illness. We are thankful that his entire family was able to be with him during his final days.
Chuck was born in rural Folsom, Wis. in 1931. He was raised during...
The Mount Horeb area’s mountain bike team has continued shining this season, three years after its inception. The Driftless Mountain Bike (DMTB) team is one organization of three teams: Middleton MTB, Mount Horeb MTB, and Waunakee MTB, allowing the team to pool resources and expertise.
The local...
Each year the Mount Horeb Music Boosters recognize F.H. Hanneman’s pioneering contributions to music in Mount Horeb by honoring an outstanding musician in the eighth grade and the senior class.
To be considered for the award, interested students submit an application then have their materials...
Kristen Dresen found peace and connection while gardening with her father (above) when he was suffering from dementia. As the new owner of Olson’s Flowers, she believes flowers possess the power to help people heal and connect.
When Kristen Dresen’s father was diagnosed with dementia, the man she loved so dearly started slipping away. It is a long and erratic goodbye that many people are forced to say to their parents. But when he would work in the garden with his daughter, he would return to her, becoming more fully...
Mount Horeb native Johanna Gorman-Baer is currently a resident teaching artist at Children’s Theatre Company, the nation’s largest and most acclaimed theatre for young people. It creates theatre experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire for more than 250,000 people annually. CTC is the only ...
On Tuesday, September 19 at 6 p.m., Mount Horeb’s Driftless Historium (100 S. 2nd St.) will host Corey Geiger (pictured above in 1983), dairy farmer, 28-year Hoard’s Dairyman editor, and author of On a Wisconsin Family Farm: Historic Tales of Character, Community and Culture and its recently...
In this Jan. 30, 1939 file photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing white hoods and robes, watch a burning cross in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/File) ORG XMIT: NY764 The Plain Dealer
People often associate the infamous Ku Klux Klan (KKK) with acts of bigotry-fueled domestic terrorism that occurred exclusively in the American South a very long time ago. But in truth, the Klan’s tendrils stretched further north, and much deeper into the 20th Century, than many realize.
The KKK...
The village board reviewed the 2024 Fire Department and EMS budget, considered pollination gardens, approved the senior center remodel bid, added a parking space, applied for exception from the county library tax, and approved a driveway plan and a parking spot last week.
Pollination gardens...
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