Heavy overnight rains reaching 11 inches caused widespread flooding Aug. 28. Pictured here is Garden Street in Ontario. (As it becomes available, flooding information will be updated on this page.)

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A car trip, taken with two or more young children (endurance tests, we used to call them), should not have been considered an official “vacation.”

It seems that — at my age and as a lifelong resident of rural Wisconsin — I should know a lot about plants and flowers and how to grow them.

While I was reading the County Line last week, a manure truck was depositing its load on the field adjacent to our backyard, another was spouting manure in a field across the road, and a fleet of trucks was continually jake-braking down the road, hauling manure from the corporate farms in our area.