By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Egads, a Wisconsin boy in the running for vice president of the United States? Really? Though Wisconsin has had its share of famous (Bob La Follette) and infamous (Joe McCarthy) senators, a chief executive or junior chief from the...
50 years late, Wilton High School graduates go to prom
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor “I am behaving myself tonight,” Jerry Von Haden of Tomah shouted to me at the Wilton High School reunion for the classes of 1962 and 1963 on Saturday. And indeed he did, but it was not always so. The class of 1962 was naughty,...
Lac du Flambeau museum reflects Ojibwe resilience
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Yes, it's OK to take a vacation and never leave the state. Most of us travel thousands of miles to exotic locales when in fact we haven't unexplored some territory here in Cheesehead land. Come to think about it, I know of multiple...
The charms of an auction
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor I admit it: I love auctions. Were it not for the demands of this newspaper, I would probably idle away the balance of my life standing around at an auction, consuming poisonous hot dogs, bidding on items I don't need and wasting an...
News-gathering now outsourced, thanks to technology
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Imagine that in the near future you open the pages of the County Line and read stories that were written in the Philippines, South Korea or another foreign port. That's what the residents of Homewood and Flossmoor, two south...
July 4 a time to reflect on religious tolerance
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Each year we confuse our fine readers about our printing schedule for the July 4 holiday. Some years we drop the paper that week, and other times not. DO NOT say no one told you. We will publish a paper next week. REPEAT. There...
Kammes custom builds his trike tranportation
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor I confess that what I know about motorcycles would not fill a thimble: All I know is they are loud and take tiny sips of fuel. If I actually rode one, it would kill me within five minutes. Nevertheless, the greatest joy of a...
VEDA could be model for job creation in poor economy
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor The future of job creation may look a lot like the former NCR building in Viroqua. In 2009, NCR, a global corporation, pulled up stakes and moved its Viroqua operation to Tennessee. With it went 81 decent-paying jobs, a loss Vernon...
Walker just another guy serving scrambled eggs
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor He may be a rock star in the Republican Party, but Saturday on St. Mary's Ridge, Gov. Scott Walker was just one more guy holding a serving spoon of scrambled eggs. When I arrived home Saturday, my family inquired about my annual...
Recall election seems anti-climactic
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Hang in there, friends and readers. In only a few more days, we will be free of the election bombast for, oh, possibly a few weeks, before we head into the fall primary, and then the general election. With the exception of an...
