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VFW Post 9511 Commander Don Hartman and Major (Ret) Jerry Hook are this year’s Summer Frolic Parade Marshals. Photo by Matt Geiger.
This year’s Mount Horeb Summer Frolic parade grand marshals will be Major (Ret) Jerry Hook and VFW Post 9511 Commander Don Hartman, two of the community’s most esteemed members. The two, who play key roles in a vast array of initiatives and groups that help both veterans and the broader community,...
A wild deer had to be euthanized by police on May 22 after the animal smashed through the window of a local thrift shop.
It was 7:36 p.m. when authorities first received a call alerting them to the fact that a deer had entered the Bargain Nook at 126 East Main Street and was wounded and bleeding in...
John Hardick and wife Rebecca are the new owners of the pizza restaurant at 1213 Springdale Street. Pictured above, nephew Mateo slides a hot pepperoni pizza out of the oven. Photo by Matt Geiger.
Journey “under the sea” with Mount Horeb Middle School students as they present Disney’s The Little Mermaid JR. Thursday, June 6 at 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. in the Mount Horeb High School Auditorium. Performances are free and open to the public. In a magical underwater kingdom, the beautiful young...
A storm on the evening of May 21 ripped through the Mount Horeb area, leaving a path of downed trees and power lines in its wake. PIctured here, a camper was flipped on its roof at the Havens family’s farm, deadly voltage arced through the forest due to a downed power line on Sletto Road, and...
For some odd reason, vending machines in this country have long been the domain of junk food, and junk food alone. These ubiquitous automated stores are nearly always filled with heavily-processed snacks that favor salt and sugar over any local or sustainable food ethic or ingredient.
But a local...
The Mount Horeb Area School District Board of Education and the Mount Horeb Education Association (MHEA) are once again disputing definitions of the base wage, meet and confer and bargaining protocols and issues of open communication.
The board of education meeting on May 20 ended in a closed...
For at least a thousand years, people have played lacrosse on this soil. Through times of famine and plenty, through war and peace, through and across the broad, messy, perplexing and breathtaking spectrum of the human experience, people have found joy and solace in the games they play.
Lacrosse is...
As Mount Horeb worked to come to terms with the events of May 1, parents of students in the school district learned that the local school district and law enforcement were dealing with troubling comments made the following week.
“This afternoon, we learned of a situation involving a student who...
May 4 2024-MOUNT HOREB, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is continuing to investigate the incident that occurred in the Village of Mount Horeb, Wis. on the morning of Wednesday, May 1, 2024.
At approximately 11:11 a.m., a citizen called 911...
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