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Couper.
“I’d rather be a poet,” wrote David C. Couper, “than what I am today/ I’d rather be/ a feeling expressing man/ than what I am today/ I’d rather be a poet/ and tell you who I am/ and how I feel/ and what you mean to me/ you’ll love me as a poet.”
Couper, a Blue Mounds resident, penned those lines...
Mount Horeb’s Driftless Historium (100 S 2nd St) will host Wisconsin Historical Society Lead Curator Joe Kapler, author of “Wisconsin in Watercolor: Life and Legend of Folk Artist Paul Seifert,” on Thursday, March 19 at 6:30pm.
Kapler will share his research on the enigmatic life and artistry of...
At the March 4 village board meeting, the trustees approved the job description for an economic development director.
The new position is designed to provide “leadership and direction for economic development, planning, building services, and project management” for “the physical development of the...
An issue that first came to the Primrose Town Board in February is still undecided due to ambiguous ordinance language.
The board has been mulling a request for the construction of a field road off Peerless Road, but it is now considering whether the town even has jurisdiction over such roads....
The Mount Horeb Area School District will continue their partnership with Bray Architects following an extension of an existing contract and a shift to working on the district’s long-range facility improvement plans.
“The partnership with Bray continues to be very favorable,” superintendent Steve...
120 Years Ago-
March 15, 1900
We have been charged with publishing poetry in the past that has been of inferior quality, and somewhat disagreeable to the fine poetic taste of some of our readers. This week we hope to be able to redeem ourselves by publishing an original production by one of our...
The meaning of life...
At a certain point in your life, you stop coveting information and begin looking for wisdom. You realize that what is, is, but what you do with it, how you love it or hate it or try to interact with it, matters just as much.
You can know things without understanding them,...
Dane County FFA Officer teams and Downtown Madison Kiwanis members met for a luncheon and meeting on March 2nd. The gathering was held at the Madison Club. FFA chapters choose a member to receive the Louis S. Sasman Outstanding Member Award. Louis Sasman, a teacher educator at UW-Madison and...
The Wisconsin Pork Association Youth Committee recently awarded 46 youth with $50 grants to help offset the costs of their upcoming 4-H and FFA swine projects. The Youth Pig Project grant program began in 2003 to encourage youth to become involved in the Wisconsin pork industry through projects...
It is color that attracts spring seekers to the skunk cabbage because the flowers are tiny and there are no showy petals, some even say just unattractive parts. But the purple-marron hood, a spathe, is quite attractive, other say. Let the eyes be the guide; olfactory systems will surely...
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