Opinion
Dear Mount Horeb Mail readers,
If you got a bright orange envelope from MHTC in the mail last week, it could be your “magic ticket” to better internet. MHTC has decided to apply for a state broadband expansion grant to cover people who were left behind by the earlier high speed broadband build-...
From our earliest years, we are taught what to do and who to call when someone has a medical emergency. What our parents didn’t tell us is that after we dial 911 and share the numbers of the address we practiced so hard to remember is what actually happens next. Unfortunately, in many of...
My daughter came outside early this morning to help me shovel the driveway before heading off to third grade. As we pushed and tossed the slab of fresh white snow to the side, I jiggled the shovel and assessed its considerable heft.
“This snow is heavy,” I said. “This will make great snowballs.”
“...
When adults think back to our formative years, we can likely pick out a teacher or two that fundamentally made a difference in our lives and influenced our future career paths. For many in the agriculture industry, that teacher was an agricultural teacher. Hundreds of agricultural instructors work...
If you ever want to see the best and worst of humankind, just go to the dog park.
You can stand in a field and listen as a woman describes her dog to you. “He’s just so smart! He’s really very clever! Sometimes I swear he should run for office! Hahaha!”
As she goes on and on, you can look around...
I write this from the left bank of the Mekong River, in Vientiane, Laos. It’s a part of the world I’ve come to know in 30 years of working and sometimes living here.
Laos is somewhat under the radar as a country, but it has at least one distinction, an unfortunate one: it is the most bombed country...
Rigged maps
are not
representative democracy
Dear editor,
Thanks for publishing the interesting analysis of the effect of Republican-led gerrymandering on our local districts.
One thing that was not mentioned was that the town of Blue Mounds, which surrounds Mount Horeb on three sides, was lopped...
Open Letter to the Town of Blue Mounds Residents,
Serving on the town board has been a tradition in the town of Blue Mounds that goes back to the original settler of Dane County, Ebenezer Brigham. At 7 p.m. Monday Jan. 9, the Town Board is holding the semi-annual Caucus. At this meeting, you and...
To the editor,
At this time of year, when our thoughts revolve more frequently around the parts of our lives for which we are most grateful, it seems only natural to reflect on our generous community.
One of our local advantages, in particular, is the Mount Horeb Community Foundation. For a number...
Cécile Druzba (center) with her family.
I used to often stop and chat with an elegant woman named Cécile, who worked in an office a few steps from mine in the City of Middleton. I edited the local newspaper (which was essentially just an ongoing saga about how much the community’s leaders at the time loved concrete and development of...
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