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How does Jim Crow and the Sixties Civil Rights movement inform the protests and resistance of today? Join Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, professor of history at UW-Eau Claire, on Thursday, October 8 beginning at 6:30pm via Zoom to explore these topics. This program is hosted by the Mt. Horeb Public...
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1
THE SPRINGDALE TOWN BOARD will hold a meeting on Thursday, October 1, 2020 at Town Hall (2379 Town Hall Rd. Mt. Horeb, WI 53572). The Board will convene at 8 a.m. to review “a resident complaint regarding their property tax assessment and the correct handling by the Board of...
Have you been talking to friends and family about any of the new COVID-19 vaccines? I know I have. Though likely not available until 2021, we’re already discussing their safety and the risk of possible side effects. Some vaccines are entering stage three trials, where 30,000 people per trial are...
Dear editor,
Governor Tony Evers has called several special sessions of the state legislature over the last twenty months to address critical issues. All have been met with callous disregard by Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature. The standard operating procedure of Assembly Speaker Vos...
Our daughter’s desk collapsed on her the other day, pinning her to the ground in a pile of rubble consisting mostly of magic markers, erasers and books of a most considerable heft.
We had had to fashion an office for her, when it became clear there would not be in-person classes. Desks, my wife...
The Mount Horeb Police Department participated in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign from August 21 to September 7.
In all, nine local officers spent 180 hours on enforcement during that time period. They made 89 traffic contacts for violations.
There were 27 citations issued and 64...
The Mount Horeb Area Chamber of Commerce (MHACC) Fall Village Market, originally scheduled for Saturday October 3rd, has been moved to a virtual market with drive thru pick-up at the downtown ELC/Duluth parking lot on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Throughout the planning and re-planning of...
MOUNT HOREB – Joyce Elaine Lesar, age 91, of Mount Horeb, passed away peacefully on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. She was born on March 14, 1929, in Madison, Wis., and was the daughter of George and Della (Lease) Beale. Joyce grew up on the east side of Madison and graduated from Madison East High School...
MOUNT HOREB - Martha Hartman, age 94, of Mount Horeb, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, at The Cottages in Madison. She was born on July 4, 1926, in Holstein, Iowa, the daughter of James and Carrie (Hansen) Leinbaugh. Martha always joked the national holiday was in her honor.
After high...
Belleville, WI/Primrose, WI - Francis “Frank” O’Connor passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on Friday September 25, 2020. Frank was born on the O’Connor Family Farm in the Town of Primrose, WI on May 15, 1932. The farm quickly became his lifelong passion. He attended Mount Horeb...
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