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Are you ready to (safely) follow in the footsteps of America’s infamous gangsters as they turned Wisconsin into a land of crime during Prohibition? Join renowned lecturer Chad Lewis at the Mt. Horeb Public Library Tuesday, January 21 for a fascinating Midwestern history program. Lewis shares tales...
The Wednesday Night Live (WNL) summer concert series supports Neighbors Helping Neighbors (NHN) in its mission to make sure everyone has adequate food, clothing, housing and more. WNL charges a vendor fee for each of the food trucks at each of the shows, and the money collected gets turned around...
Paul Baum.
For the third time in as many years, Paul Baum has stepped in to provide some stability during a time of unexpected transition in Village of Blue Mounds government.
Baum was recently appointed village president following the resignation of long-time president Audra Anderson. Just a few months...
130 Years Ago-
Jan. 4, 1895
Andrew Huset had a chopping bee last Saturday.
The Buchanans are immense, with the accent on immense.
Thomas N. Lund died at the county poor house Tuesday evening, January 2nd from consumption, from which he had suffered more or less perhaps for the last two years. The...
Middle school student Jamie Katzman sings a lullaby to Crumble, the Mount Horeb Area School District’s new service dog. Photo by Matt Geiger.
Twenty-six thousand years ago, a little boy and a shaggy wolf-dog walked together through a dark cave in what is now France. The child carried a torch to ward off the tunnel’s dark terrors, stopping to rub it against the wall, the friction prompting the flame to burn a little brighter. At one point...
When Dennis Chandler released his debut book in 2019, a collection of 15 literary short stories set in an intimate and liminal Midwest, he offered a voice that felt both fresh and ancient. Like his influences – William Gay and William Faulkner among them – his writing hit the mind and the ear like...
Traci, Dominic, Eli, Addy, Theo and Benjamin Jones got the chance to meet with St. Nick during the library's cookie walk.
The Friends of the Library (FOL) just wrapped up the Cookie Walk, a fun holiday fundraiser for the library. Each year, members from our community volunteer to bake and donate beautiful holiday cookies to the FOL. Then, on the first Saturday in December, we open our doors to the community and let...
Blue Mounds Village Board president Audra Anderson announced her resignation at the board’s December 11 meeting. Anderson, citing her discomfort over “the extent of conversations that occur by the majority of trustees outside of monthly board meetings,” had been a member of the board for more than...
The Dec. 12 article titled “Neighbors Voice Concerns Over Development plan” incorrectly stated that village trustee Ben Jones “addressed some of the technical concerns.” It was actually planning consultant Ben Rohr that spoke on the topic. The Mail regrets the error.
The village board approved a moratorium on new electronic smoking retailers. It will have no effect on stores that are already operating.
Board trustee Brett Halverson said he supports the 180-day temporary stop until a more permanent ordinance can be installed.
“We’re not doing anything permanent...
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