The often-heard phrase, “You can take the boy out of the Kickapoo Valley but you can’t take the Kickapoo Valley out of the boy,” might well have been written with former rural Norwalk resident Stanley Walz in mind.
When did we decide to execute truth?
Local history corner: The night Ontario’s downtown nearly burned to the ground
Remembering the World War II generation
Local farms named to Wisconsin Century Farm list
These are trying times for America’s farmers. The daily news brings headlines on the exodus of dairy farmers from the business, corn and soybean farmers who depend on government bailouts as the trade war shrinks the Chinese market, and drastic weather events that drown crops and wash away hope of profits.
Ontario wins USDA Search Grant
The flood: A one-year summing-up
Labor Day’s meaning has been obscured
It must have been an interesting Labor Day weekend for Chris Rowe and Chris Sexton. They are two of the sometimes up to 100 miners parked on the railroad tracks in Harlan County, Ky., blocking the passage of a million dollars in coal.
Should we rethink how we respond to natural disasters?
My personal experience with weather disasters dates to Palm Sunday of 1965, when a series of ferocious tornadoes swept through Wisconsin, striking multiple towns such as Watertown, Jefferson and my hometown, Monroe.
Hawk High Dairy expansion unacceptable to some town of Ridgeville residents
