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A special Mount Horeb Plan Commission meeting was held on October 29 with all commissioners present with the assignment to review the final draft of the zoning code rewrite.
Czyzewski started the meeting saying, “Before I begin, I want to address two quick issues. First it is nice to be back in our...
Continuing from last week’s article on the October 22 Public Hearing for the proposed Langhús on Main mixed-use building, 54 public comments were made to the Plan Commission members. They were residents, business and property owners, and area residents who frequent Mount Horeb.
John Theobald, a...
A Blue Mounds woman will spend the rest of her life in an institution for fatally stabbing her mother last spring.
Sierra Schoonover, 31, had been charged with First-Degree Intentional Homicide after a confrontation with her mother, Heather Schoonover, turned deadly.
Schoonover had pled guilty but...
Length of meeting: Five-and-a-half hours
Public Comments: 54 (Seven For, 47 Against)
Letters sent to the Village: 29 (Three For, 26 Against)
Registered at Meeting without speaking: Eight (One For, Seven Against).
Meeting Result: Motion made to table the rezoning request. Carried 7-0.
No votes have...
The Mount Horeb High School Band took part in a once-in-a-lifetime musical collaboration under the Friday Night Lights. During the halftime show, Dr. Corey Pompey, UW-Madison’s Director of Athletic Bands, Associate Director of Bands, and Associate Teaching Professor took the field with Mount Horeb...
A young musician’s original song has won the first-round State Division of the Music Teachers National Association’s 2025 Composition Competition.
Seventh grader Gregory Rottinger, a Blue Mounds resident who is part of the Rural Virtual Academy out of Medford, takes piano lessons at Good New...
Meagan Hatfield, owner of Spellerific, chats with a customer during last week’s Witches Night Out event. Photo by Casey McCoy.
Downtown Mount Horeb’s hub for all things metaphysical is turning five. Meagan Hatfield, owner and witch-in-residence at Spellerific, recently took the time to talk about the idea that started as a dream and has blossomed into something truly magical.
“What started as a leap of faith and a dream to...
Officer Steve Rosemeyer (left) with State Rep. Todd Novak.
Mount Horeb Police Officer and current Mount Horeb School District Resource Officer Steve Rosemeyer where he was honored during an Assembly Floor Session as the First Responder Award winner.
Each legislative session, First Responders from around Wisconsin are selected to be honored by their...
Sierra Schoonover
MADISON – A Blue Mounds woman pleaded Not Guilty by Insanity Tuesday, Oct. 14 in connection with fatally stabbing her mother last spring but coupled it with a guilty plea to committing the act.
Sierra Schoonover, 31, admitted that she intended to cause the death of mother, Heather Schoonover, but...
The Village of Mount Horeb’s planning commission will hold a public hearing on JG Development’s proposed four-story mixed-use development on Wednesday, October 22. The developer has submitted a project that would include 6,720 feet of commercial space and 63 apartment units at 208, 214 and 220 East...
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