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Beautiful Norwegian Hardanger fiddle music will fill the Mt. Horeb Public Library Saturday, February 1 at 10 am. All ages are invited to listen as the talented Ladies of the Fjord, comprised of Carlyce Skjervem and Karen Rebholz, perform and share tales that surround each tune. A stunning...
The Driftless Historium is again an official Scandihoovian Winter Festival event site with their third annual Cupcake Walk, to take place Saturday, February 1 from 3 to 4 p.m. All ages are invited to bop to the music (polka, of course) until the music stops; if your number is called, you win a...
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23
Ballet Folklorica will perform a diverse range of Mexican dances. Free, public welcome, 5:30pm-7:00pm at High School auditorium. Salsa making at 4:30pm. Program made possible by Alumni Endowment grant & Mt. Horeb High School Spanish Club.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24
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Vendors of vintage farm toys filled the Mt. Horeb High School Gym and Commons on January 5th for the 28th Annual Mt. Horeb FFA Alumni Toy Show. In addition to items for sale, the public was treated to farmstead displays and hand-crafted working machinery models. A popular pedal tractor pull was...
120 Years Ago-
Jan. 25, 1900
Rev. Gunderson is wearing that contented and pleasant smile on his face that indicates that a man is well pleased with conditions at home. On returning from services last Sunday, a boy had arrived at his house and all is reported well.
S.K. Swiggum will build a barn...
Southwest Dane Outreach would like to thank the Mt. Horeb Community Foundation for their very generous grant of $1,500.00. This money will be used for our “Newsletter Project”, in which we mail 300 newsletters, email about 140 newsletters and hand out about 220 newsletters to seniors in the Mt....
Jessica Arrigoni for the school board is an easy choice. Jessica is energetic, smart and deeply committed to the children, parents and schools in the Mount Horeb Area School District. Beyond her many years of experience as an education researcher at the UW-Madison Wisconsin Center for Education...
“Listen! A sower went out to sow…” Mark 4.1-9
I was born into a family of fisherfolk. Not romantic, deep sea, long voyage fisherfolk, but more the cane pole, lakeside, long summer afternoon sort. Early on a Saturday morning, my step-dad would fill a can with red wigglers from the back yard and...
People in Mount Horeb and Blue Mounds experienced shock, anger, fear and perhaps most of all, confusion last week when the body of 26-year-old Nicholas Day was found on the side of County Highway JG.
Authorities originally said he was likely the victim of a hit-and-run. But one day later, the Dane...
The first time Brynn Bruijn went scuba diving, she slipped and fell off the coral reef.
“I fell to the bottom, maybe 75 feet or whatever,” she recalls, sitting in her Mount Horeb home, sipping coffee. “At first I was scared to death. Then I saw the wonder of the Red Sea, and I knew I wanted to...
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