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On Friday, Feb. 21 and Saturday, Feb. 22 at Mount Horeb High School, in conjunction with the Mount Horeb Optimists Club and two trained performers from Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre, based out of Minnesota, local students in grades one through eight put on a prodution of “Pinocchio.” Photos...
Brenna Siebold had just returned home from teaching third grade at the Mount Horeb Intermediate Center. Her 9-month-old son, home with his sitter, was acting sluggish. She took Leo’s temperature. It was 103 degrees.
The fever was only the latest health scare in Leo’s short life. He was born with ...
About 130 Farmers Union members and local residents filled Brix Cider in Mount Horeb for a Feb. 16 viewing of the documentary “Right to Harm.”
The event was hosted by the South Central and Iowa-Grant chapters of Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU). The documentary, which is being shown by several WFU...
Get your little dancer ready for Spring Ballet! Miss Ellen is back for Monday night ballet at the Senior Center from March 16 through June 8 (no program on April 6 and May 25, plus a Friday class on May 29). Pre-Ballet I, II and III is for ages 4-6 from 4:30-5:00PM, Beginning Ballet I and II is...
The most important match of the night occurred at Harley Blue in Blue Mounds. The undefeated Kleeman Hay Shakers couldn’t get a whole lot of shaking going on as the Express, without three of their regular players, rolled over the Hay Shakers to make all of their stops on time and 47 points ahead...
Recently the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted permission for the Cardinal Hickory Creek high voltage line to be run through the U.S. Wildlife Refuge near Cassville. This is upsetting on so many levels. The Environmental Impact statement clearly expressed reservations and concerns about this...
I recently heard a discussion that came out of the ELCA about why we “fast for Lent.” I know that there is a rich history of people giving up things for the Lenten season as a way of disciplining themselves to understand better our dependence on God, but other than in conversation, it seems that...
120 Years Ago-
March 8, 1900
The Woodman boys of the camp at this place will rejoice over the missing tug-of-war rope having been found and restored to the lodge room. It was not the commercial value that makes it a cherished article, which goes to make up the paraphernalia of Camp No. 723.
The...
Vierck.
The Mount Horeb Police Department will host two meet and greet events next week at which the public can get to know new chief Doug Vierck. The first will take place Tuesday, March 10 from 5-7 p.m. The second will be Thursday, March 12 from 6:30-8:30 a.m. Both will be at the public safety building...
MIchelle Meyer.
“I’ve always been drawn to trees and the land,” says poet Michelle Meyer. “It’s like music to me.”
The music of nature turns to poetry in Meyer’s mind, and her poems - her “short bursts” and “ditties,” as she calls them - have earned her a large following on social media, where her work reaches...
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