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Marc Brody with farmer Zhang Xiao Ping.
“It’s an odd time to be conscious on this planet,” muses Marc Brody.
As president of Panda Mountain, a nonprofit that works in the Wolong Nature Reserve outside Chengdu, China, Brody says it is a time of enormous despair angst. He says there is an impending sense that the natural world is on the...
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The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for Dane County in effect from 7 p.m. today, January 10 until 6 a.m. Sunday, January 12. Heavy Snow is expected to develop in our area later this evening and continue into the weekend, with the heaviest snowfall on Saturday evening....
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) last week announced our state has seen 459 hospitalizations for influenza this season, more than three times as many than at this time last year. Admissions to intensive care units for respiratory illnesses are also on the rise. And already, 11...
Eldon F. Schraepfer
HOLLANDALE/BLANCHARDVILLE - Eldon F. Schraepfer, long time area auctioneer and realtor, passed away on Monday morning, January 6, 2020 at Upland Hills Hospital in Dodgeville at the age of 86. A lifelong resident of Moscow Township, Eldon was born on July 4, 1933 in Mount Horeb...
Elizabeth “Betty” (Handel) Ryan
MADISON/MOUNT HOREB-Betty (Elizabeth) (Handel) Ryan, age 90, of Mount Horeb, WI died on January 4, 2020 at Agrace Hospice, with her family by her side.
Betty was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great, great grandmother, and friend. She was...
Kirk Matthew Jewell
MOUNT HOREB - Kirk Matthew Jewell, age 37, of Mount Horeb, passed away on Thursday, January 2, 2020. He was born on June 2, 1982, in Richland Center, WI, the son of Dean and Julie (Polaski) Jewell.
Kirk graduated from Richland Center High School in 2001 and went on to receive a...
The Blue Mounds Caucus. Photo by Matt Geiger.
The Village of Blue Mounds held its annual caucus on Wednesday, Jan. 8, just prior to the regularly scheduled board meeting. There are two seats up for grabs in the Spring Election, each with a two-year term.
At the caucus, residents nominated three potential candidates, but only two received the...
The Mount Horeb Police Commission has completed its first round of interviews and released the names of five candidates for the position of chief. The finalists are Donald Bomkamp, Lieutenant, Fitchburg Police Department; Eric Fisher, Chief of Police Poynette Police Department; Mark Garry II,...
She had a Doc McStuffins sphygmomanometer around her arm when I walked into the room. With her fourth birthday freshly behind her, she’d probably decided it was finally time to take stock of her health. When she heard me entering the room, she didn’t turn around right away. Rather, she slowly,...
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