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Swine flu. Bird flu. Zika. Ebola. It seems like every year, a different potential pandemic makes headlines. While they cause worry, conversation and speculation in the general population, medical professionals must tackle how each contagion could impact local communities - and how to respond.
This...
Abby, the daughter of Chris and Jackie Donaldson, has been very active, both as a volunteer and in high school activities. She was the face of Mount Horeb during her volunteer work at the Chamber of Commerce, answering questions for visitors and meeting people from all over the world. She also...
Brooke Walton is “Someone You Should Know.” Brooke was chosen as the Optimist Club’s high school recipient of the “Someone You Should Know” award for outstanding community service for the month of January.
Brooke is a senior at Mt. Horeb High School. As a DECA member her freshman and sophomore...
We are very fortunate that we live in such a fantastic community. One example of that is the Mount Horeb School District’s Weekend Lunch Program. The membership of the Mount Horeb American Legion voted to donate $500 to the program. I finally caught up with Michelle Denk, Mary McDonough Sutter...
Anthony Thompson, a member of Mount Horeb’s Troop 62, celebrated achieving his Boy Scout Eagle rank December 15th in an Eagle Court of Honor ceremony held at Life Church. He and his team built and installed a 96-foot extension to a boardwalk in Blue Mounds’ Brigham Park. The project took 146 hours...
There are many people from Mount Horeb who are working toward a career in the performing arts. But while their roots are similar, each young artist is carving a new and unique path.
Brett Fredrickson, 20, who is currently a sophomore majoring in both BFA Musical Theatre and BA Dance at the...
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Jason Christopher Hull passed away from an apparent heart attack in early January in his home in Indianapolis. He was born on Januaary 16, 1971, in Lancaster, WI, the youngest child of Leo Hull and Mary Jane Liegel-Hull. Jason attended elementary school in Fennimore and...
BLACK EARTH - Burnett Vilas Severson, age 94, of Black Earth, passed away on Sunday, February 2, 2020. He was born on May 21, 1925, in Vermont Township, the son of Elmer and Bertha (Espeseth) Severson.
A funeral service will be held at Vermont Lutheran Church, 9886 Vermont Church Road, Black Earth...
Several High Point Christian School students who qualified for the ACSI District Spelling Bee in Kenosha, WI this past week. A number of High Point Christian School students placed in their grade levels: Abigail Yakoub, 2nd place (first grade), Jonathan Rajiv, 1st place (second grade), Zion Beck,...
Gardeners, landowners and stewards of public land have all been forced to confront new invasive species of plants that suddenly appear and then proceed to take over anything from the corner of a flower bed to hundreds of acres of forest floor.
The culplrits are often deliberately imported for a...
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