By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher
An ambulance call in Ontario ended in a cocaine bust April 7 when emergency personnel responded to the Wildcat Bar for a victim reportedly down with a seizure.
Upon arrival, the ambulance staff found that Johnny Lacy, 42, of Ontario was unconscious. After the ambulance transported Lacy a few miles north on Highway 131, he had revived and demanded to be released from the ambulance.
Monroe and Vernon County officers, along with a K-9 unit, searched the area, finding Lacy about four hours later. He was transported to the Vernon County Jail and charged
Monroe County voters now will be able choose from three candidates for sheriff in the fall election.
Mark Jerdee now has thrown his hat in the ring, joining former Tomah Police Chief Wes Revels and Scott Perkins
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher
Trustee Johnny Lacy was elected to the Ontario Village Board in April 2013 but has attended only one meeting in the past year, so the board agreed Monday to meet, possibly as early as next week,
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Managing Editor
Each year for the past 14 years, the Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton School District has been shorted by about $100,000 in federal Title I funds, Superintendent Kelly Burhop told the board of education at its meeting Monday.
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Managing Editor
The Kendall Lions Club and the Monroe County Drug Coalition will sponsor a public meeting in May designed to disperse information on drug use and prevention, Alice Brandau, a
The Monroe, Juneau, Jackson Genealogy Workshop meeting will be Tuesday, May 6, at the Tomah Area Historical Society and Museum, 1112 Superior Ave.
The doors will open at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting will be at
State Sen. Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse) will hold in-district office hours from 1–2 p.m. Monday, April 28, at Cashton Memorial Library, 720 Broadway St.
Members of the public are invited to discuss legislation or any state-government issue.
The Royall Music Department will host a spaghetti dinner and bake sale fundraiser in the high school cafeteria from 5–6:30 p.m. Friday, April 25.
Tickets are $5 apiece, and children 5 and younger may attend for free.
Bill Quackenbush will present a public history program, “History of the Ho-Chunk People: Past, Present, and Future,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at the Monroe County Local History Room, 200 Main St., Sparta.
The public also is
A routine traffic stop in Wilton resulted in drug charges for an Ontario man early Monday evening.
Randy Harmel, the passenger, faces charges of possession of THC and drug paraphernalia and was booked into Monroe County Jail.
The Wilton Legion Auxiliary will host an Easter egg hunt at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 19, starting at the Lions shelter in the Wilton Village Park.
All Wilton area children through sixth grade are invited to
A Lyme disease support group for Vernon, Juneau, Monroe, Sauk and Richland counties will meet from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, April 25, at the Hillsboro Public Library meeting room, 819 High Ave.
For more information,
The Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School spring concert will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 1.
Kindergarteners, first-graders and second-graders will sing at the event, plus the elementary band will perform.
The Vernon County Health Department will conduct an immunization clinic Thursday, April 17 at the Vernon County Health Department, 318 Fairlane Drive (County Hwy. BB), Viroqua
The clinic will run from 9–11:30 a.m. and 4:30 to 6
By JOE VITCENDA | Royall baseball coach
Opening the season, the Panthers fell to the New Lisbon Rockets with a shutout score of 6-0 on April 7.
Marcus Blaha took the
By NATE BEIER | For the County Line
Brookwood’s softball team faced a 10-2 deficit going into the fifth inning at Hillsboro on April 10. The momentum was all in the Tigers’ favor, as they had just put together an 8-run fourth-inning effort.
By JOE VITCENDA | Royall baseball coach
Eyes are level, hips are level, knees are level, the hands are in front of the armpit and the mind is focused on the baseball! It appears to be a
By NATE BEIER | For the County Line
Sometimes all you need is a win to get back on track. That’s what the Brookwood boys were hoping for after their season-opening loss to Bangor on April 7.
By NATE BEIER | For the County Line
The Brookwood and Royall girls track teams combined to win eight of the 17 events at the Necedah Early Bird, a track and field invite that featured six schools, on April 7.
By NATE BEIER | For the County Line
Kelly Wallace’s debut as the head coach for the Brookwood softball team seemed to go well, as his team defeated Mauston 5-1 at the Melrose-Mindoro tournament on Saturday.
The
By NATE BEIER | For the County Line
Bangor’s Canon O’Heron struck out 10 and walked just two as he led the Cardinals to a 5-3 win over Brookwood on Monday afternoon in Wilton.
Though the Falcons
By NATE BEIER | For the County Line
The spring sports season hit the ground running — literally — when Brookwood and Royall participated in the Cashton Indoor Invitational on March 29 at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to return to a town after decades of absence? Richard Brown shares his bird’s-eye view of Kendall after being gone for more than 30 years.
Richard Brown was in the U.S. Navy from 1962-65. Following military service, he
County Line staff has been searching for the photo below for a long time. It is a rare shot of the Vernon Hotel, which stood on the lot now occupied by the Ontario Community Hall.
