By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Yes, we do call ourselves a weekly newspaper. But we did not mean that it would take a week to get it through the mail. To all of you who called last week to complain that the County Line did not arrive on Thursday or Friday or...
Ontario gets in on community garden trend
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Does it appear this may be the summer of no summer? Did we turn off the furnace only to suffer through a few months of chilly nights and soggy damp days until we turn on the furnace again in September? Will July 4 find us peering...
Online reviews at times do little to help consumer
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor It occurred to me Friday evening that we had checked into the Bates Motel, that fictional lodging in the horror flick "Psycho" where Janet Leigh meets her gruesome end. I am not one to spend a lot of money on luxury accommodations....
Legislature didn't think through food-stamp proposal
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor I know this is hard to believe, but once upon a time, serving in the Wisconsin Legislature was a part-time - very part-time - job. Our elected representatives saddled up, trotted to the capitol and earned a heady $2.50 a day for...
The late John D. Rice offered extraordinary insights on Kickapoo Valley
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor My last two columns, in which I carped about the endless studies of the Kickapoo Valley, inspired a reader, Barbara Rice of Sparta, to dig through the archives for an old newspaper clipping written by her late brother-in-law, John...
Tourism-study money should be redirected
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor One pitfall of writing a weekly column is that at least one or more readers will disagree with you, or worse yet, you will be caught in an error. The first is unavoidable, and the latter requires getting the facts right before they...
Are government studies always worth the price tag?
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor It does seem that academics are greatly intrigued with shoving the Kickapoo Valley under a microscope. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Life Sciences Communication Department presented such an effort last week at the Kickapoo...
Petersen gives outstanding, overwhelming performance
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor A wave of astonishment swept through the Kendall Community Hall on Sunday afternoon when Leroy Petersen stepped up to the microphone during the country music show. What did he plan to sing? "Battle Hymn of the Republic," he said....
People make community a better place in diverse ways
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor If you are old enough to recall the "guy groups" of the 1950s, such as The Four Aces and The Four Freshmen, then you are either really, really old or a music historian. OK, the music leaned to the syrupy side ("Love is a Many...
Ridgeville wind farm might not have happened in any circumstance
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor A reader took exception to my column a few weeks ago about the grassroots government of town boards. It was his observation that government in the town of Plymouth was at least as rife with "cronyism, nepotism and favoritism" as...
