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Governor Tony Evers on Monday signed an executive order suspending in-person voting the following day. The resolution effectively rescheduled the Tuesday, April 7 election to June 9, 2020, although many voters have already cast their ballots by mail and in early voting at village and city halls...
Patrick Durkin with his daughter, Leah.
“The trail I used to follow on all my adventures is long since buried beneath cement,” says Patrick Durkin. He’s remembering childhood days when he would haul glinting fish out of area lakes and stalk wild game with a bow and arrow.
Those paths may now be entombed in lifeless pavement, but the...
Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell.
As states across the U.S. delay their primary elections in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, Wisconsin decided to stay the course — and found itself in complete disarray.
On Friday, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called on the Legislature to meet in a special session Saturday to decide the fate of...
The Dane County Sheriff’s Office would like to remind all residents that the Wisconsin DNR has cancelled all burning permits until further notice. Therefore, all burning debris in barrels, piles on the ground and grass or wooded areas with annual burning permits in DNR protection areas is...
Some of the first greens to appear on spring’s landscape are tiny tree-like mosses. When viewed up close, they may resemble a forest.
Spring is reproductive time for mosses, too, with billions of spores released from tiny capsules, which open later and fling these spores to the wind. Some mosses...
It all feels so scary and unprecedented. Many of us are hovering around our kids, monitoring every cough and checking temperatures, and scouring the Internet for the latest identified COVID-19 symptoms and information.
But don’t feel alone! Kids have given parents plenty to fret about since the...
Leila Aburomia (Magna Cum Laude) was inadvertently omitted from the recently published 2nd Quarter Mount Horeb Honor Roll.
The Mount Horeb Area Food Pantry will continue to be open on Saturday mornings from 10 a.m. to noon and on Monday evenings from 5 to 7 p.m. The Food Pantry is located at 102 E. Lincoln St. in Mt. Horeb.
The pantry is available to those who live within the Mt. Horeb School District who are...
Your local library’s doors may be closed, but their services aren’t.
Offering a wealth of ebooks, audiobooks and videos, as well as online services and programs, Mt. Horeb Public Library staff continue to serve the community.
“It truly saddens me close the library to the public,” writes Library...
Several times over the last couple years I’ve asked you for information about Veterans in your family. Rita Sailing gave me information on brothers Gregory and Joseph Haag who served during World War I. Three generations earlier their ancestors had immigrated from Germany.
Lawrence and Christine...
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