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120 Years Ago-
Sept. 28, 1900
Hans Groneng had the misfortune to have his foot crushed under a rock while working at the stone quarry last Saturday.
Knute Kleven ventured out last Friday for the first time since he was taken down with sickness and looked rather weak, having had a hard tussle.
Rev....
MOUNT HOREB - Bennett Ryan Ammerman, of Mount Horeb, born February 28, 2020, passed away unexpectedly on September 14, 2020, on a beautiful fall day that started out like any other.
Bennett is survived by heartbroken friends and family, including his parents, Ryan and Christina Ammerman of Mount...
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
MOUNT HOREB village-wide garage sale. Masks, social distancing plus extra sanitary measures recommended for all sellers and shoppers. Info and listings at: 437-5914 or www.mounthorebchamber.com or www.info@trollway.com
BLUE MOUNDS PANTRY. CLOSED
MOUNT HOREB...
District considers
a return to
in-person school
for K-2 students
On Monday night, Mount Horeb Area School District’s administration proposed the district return local K-2 students to in-person learning at the beginning of the second quarter, November 9. The district would also continue its K-2...
When I was very small, I scavenged and rummaged in old barns and sheds on the farm, looking for scraps of steel and wood to make the kinds of weapons carried by mutated turtles.
It was the 1980s, and Donatello, Leonardo, Rafael and Michelangelo were on everyone’s minds. They, along with the robe-...
“I sometimes joke that we’ve been wearing masks for so long that we don’t remember what smiles look like,” says Dr. Charles Moore, principal at High Point Christian Schools.
Moore, who oversees schools in Mount Horeb and on the Madison/Middleton border, says the past few months, weeks and days...
People often talk of escaping the place where they grew up. As if they absconded in the dead of night, stuffing their identity beneath the false floor of a briefcase, like a rare and imperiled treasure. As if they tip-toed away just in time and never looked back.
Author Melissa Faliveno did leave,...
On Monday night, Mount Horeb Area School District’s administration proposed the district return local K-2 students to in-person learning at the beginning of the second quarter, November 9. The district would also continue its K-2 all virtual pathway for the foreseeable future.
“Our K-2 students’...
The Mount Horeb Summer Frolic presented Mount Horeb Light the Night on September 6 near Grundahl Park. The fireworks display attracted many local residents to watch from their vehicles and outdoors, and provided a safe communitywide celebration for the end of summer. The Summer Frolic is grateful...
Janet Mae (Peterson) Grender, age 54, passed away peacefully in her husband’s arms on Friday, September 4, 2020, at UW Hospital. She was born to Clayton and Mae (Brusveen) Peterson on October 2, 1965. Janet lived in Mount Horeb and graduated from Mount Horeb High School in 1984. On June 1, 1985,...
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