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There are many who can answer that question because there are 19 MHHS alumni in the Badger Band, the most of any high school. In fact, it’s not even close; McFarland High School is next with six alumni in the approximately 300-member Badger Band.
It’s not a running joke that a cluster of Mount Horeb High School alumni often hear now that they’re in college. It’s a marching joke.
Time and time again when they’re among their peers in the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, someone will make conversation and ask where they are from. The...
120 Years Ago-
Nov. 7, 1899
There were many a porker marketed here last Monday.
Remember the raw fur buyer at the Mt. Horeb House on Wednesday, Dec. 13th.
How about the size of the wood pile? is a vital question with many of our villagers just at present.
The creamery here is now overloaded with...
It took nearly four hours on a Thursday evening for the Mount Horeb Area School District board of education to draft the details of an open letter to the community outlining their reasons for taking no action at the Nov. 18 board meeting on a request to sign a letter of intent supporting the...
Following a brief public hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 20, the Village of Mount Horeb board of trustees made one change to the $7.76 million annual operating budget proposal for 2020, re-allocating a total of $5,400 between the Historical Society and the Chamber of Commerce.
Two people spoke during...
For the second time this year more than 100 citizens gathered in Mount Horeb to provide their input on an updated master plan that will shape the future uses and boundaries of Blue Mound State Park.
The estimated 140 people who attended the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) meeting...
Kiley Newville gets ready for 'Crazy For You' at Mount Horeb High School.
Mount Horeb High School performed Crazy for You November 7-9, entertaining audiences with Gershwin classics including “I Got Rhythm” and “You Can’t Take That Away From Me.” Pictured above, dancer Kiley Newville, a junior, gets ready for the show backstage. Photo by cJefko Photography.
Santa Claus is coming to the Mount Horeb Public Library! Local citizens are invited to come join the library for songs, stories, crafts, and of course the Jolly Old Elf himself. Children are encouraged to bring their Christmas lists and parents to bring their cameras to catch that special picture...
I was reminded Wednesday of how fragile and thin the veneer of civilization is.
This was not one of my quiet, plodding, vaguely philosophical realizations. It did not come with a slow nod or a breathy “aha.” No, this came with the crack of a gunshot slicing through daggers of sleet. This came with...
Donald Soper.
Donald and Colleen Soper spent Thanksgiving with their family Thursday. While no one knew it at the time, it was one final chance for the 87-year-old couple to gather with those they loved.
Donald, who was 87 and suffered from diabetes, and Colleen, who had Alzheimer’s disease, departed from the...
The annual Vermont Lutheran Church Lutefisk/Meatball Mission Dinner took place Saturday, October 19. Diners crowded into the rural church for several hours to fill their bellies with lutefisk (cod that has been soaked in lye), meatballs and gravy, green beans, lefse, relishes, cranberries,...
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