Click here to see Wilton resident Betsy Schindler's account of the visit. By PAT MULVANEY Courtesy of the Sparta Herald Anyone traveling through Sparta on Friday afternoon could have caught sight of strange figure wearing a British Army pith helmet, sitting astride a...
Brookwood graduate serves in Peace Corps in Uganda
By LYDA LANIER Special to the County Line Volunteering to serve in the Peace Corps was the next step for Chelsea Geier of Ridgeville, a graduate of Brookwood High School and the University of Minnesota. With a major in political science, fluency in French and a...
Therapy dog delights children at Norwalk library program
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher The average senior citizen might find more than a dozen high-energy kids a bit unnerving. But 10-year-old Jack (70 in human years) was unruffled by the children who mobbed him last week at the Norwalk park shelter. Jack belongs...
Fleatiquing Mall & More opens Saturday in Union Center
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher Frugal shoppers may recall C&M Liquidators in Union Center, where everything from household items to toys and school supplies could be found at low, low prices. It was the kind of store you visited for one item, and then...
Kansas man reflects on return to Kendall after 30-year absence
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 attended...
Ontario of yesteryear
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. In its heyday, around the 1870s, it was considered one of the finest establishments in...
Mobile food pantry continues to meet local needs
By ROSE EDDY | Special to the County Line Last month marked three years that Second Harvest Food Bank's mobile food pantry has been coming to the Norwalk Community Center. Shirley Degenhardt of Norwalk is coordinator for the event and, with 15-20 other area residents,...
A bump in the road: Gary ‘Drifty’ Withrow adjusts to life after amputation
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher Anyone attending Wild West Days in Viroqua last month might have seen a strange sight: A 90-year-old man pushing his 66-year-old son in a wheelchair. "People must have been thinking, this doesn't add up," said Gary "Drifty"...
Celebrating 150 years down on the farm: Breidensteins to host sesquicentennial weekend
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor It might surprise the Irish poet Thomas Moore to hear a retired Kickapoo Valley dairy farmer recite from memory the stanzas to "Oft in the Stilly Night," a mournful poem on the creeping sadness and loss that haunts old age. But if...
Wildcat gets large-animal rescue glide
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Usually horses are sure-footed creatures. But like people, they occasionally come to grief when they miscalculate a step or suffer a fright. Rescuing a large animal from a predicament is difficult under any circumstance, but the...
