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People from Mount Horeb and beyond will again don their red hats soon as the area’s most unique family-friendly festival will be held for the ninth year.
The Scandihoovian Winter Festival on Jan. 31-Feb. 2 brings neighbors together and visitors to town, all with the goal of shaking off cabin fever...
Two local businesses are expanding and the Village of Mount Horeb will be seeing the benefits.
At the January board of trustees’ meeting, no one spoke at a public hearing for an adjustment to the village’s comprehensive plan and zoning for a west side development centered around Midwest Prototyping...
DANE COUNTY–A whirlwind of resignations and appointments over the past week has left the Dane County Board of Supervisors with a new board chair and a new interim executive director of the Alliant Energy Center.
Board chair Sharon Corrigan, of Middleton, rendered her resignation on Jan. 23 at the...
SPRINGDALE – Now that local tax bill season is ending for the Town of Springdale, the 2020 election season is about to begin.
The town received payment for 853 tax bills between Dec. 15 and Dec. 31 totalling almost $2.5 million, town treasurer Rebecca Boelhower Santi said at a Jan. 21 town board...
On the April ballot, residents of the Town of Vermont can weigh in on allowing all-terrain vehicles and utility task vehicles (ATVs and UTVs) to use town roads.
The town board has been discussing the issue for several months, hearing from local riders’ groups and others while looking at definitions...
From the town’s point of view, Tyrol Basin’s first haunted hill event was a success.
“To the best of our knowledge, nobody contacted us about any complaints or concerns,” said Tyrol’s Nathan McGree, speaking at the Dec. 9 board of supervisors meeting. “I think it went well.”
Town chair Karen...
Snow brings with it newness, changing the world so completely in just a few hours that we are forced to actually see our everyday surroundings. And when we see them, we are so often amazed by their splendor.
I’ve always thought of the snow as beautiful, but really it isn’t the snow at all. The...
The 2020 campaign for president starts in earnest with the Iowa Caucus next week. There can be little doubt that this campaign will be one of the most bitter and divisive elections in American history. To find a historical analog to current polarization, experts point to the election of 1860 when...
Senator Johnson,
I think you take your position on the Homeland Security committee seriously and must know that threats to our nation are not limited to armed or cyber threats, but can also be very human threats in the guise of a single person or aberrant movement.
The biggest threat for the last 3...
To anyone watching the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, it is clear that we have a New York mob boss posing as President. On 1/22/2002 we watched a stellar presentation by House prosecutor Adam Schiff and his more than able associates give a clear and concise description of Trump’s “corrupt...