By SARAH PARKER | County Line Editor The Royall Board of Education considered ways to finance a new roof at the intermediate school/high school building, including a referendum to exceed the state-imposed revenue caps, at its meeting Monday. The board had intended to...
Monroe County Clean Sweep is Saturday
Are old cans of paint and varnish cluttering the garage? Now is the time to rid your home and farm of hazardous and special wastes. The Monroe County Landfill welcomes all of that stuff you would rather not think about, aren't planning to leave to your kids, and is...
Nurse admits to stealing medications
A 44-year-old La Farge woman was arrested April 11 on multiple counts of possession after an investigation into missing Fentanyl patches and Vicodin tablets from an area nursing home, according to Vernon County Sheriff John Spears. During an interview with Vernon...
N-O-W Title aid mistakenly allocated to Royall Schools
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Managing Editor Each year for the past 14 years, the Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton School District has been shorted by about $100,000 in federal Title I funds, Superintendent Kelly Burhop told the board of education at its meeting Monday. The...
Ambulance call leads to cocaine bust
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher An ambulance call in Ontario ended in a cocaine bust April 7 when emergency personnel responded to the Wildcat Bar for a victim reportedly down with a seizure. Upon arrival, the ambulance staff found that Johnny Lacy, 42, of...
Ontario Village Board will take up Lacy matter
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher Trustee Johnny Lacy was elected to the Ontario Village Board in April 2013 but has attended only one meeting in the past year, so the board agreed Monday to meet, possibly as early as next week, to vote on his removal. According...
Kendall to host drug-awareness forum
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Managing Editor The Kendall Lions Club and the Monroe County Drug Coalition will sponsor a public meeting in May designed to disperse information on drug use and prevention, Alice Brandau, a member of the Kendall Lions Club, told the...
Arson suspected in Ontario car fire
A car at 102 First St. was fully engulfed in flames by the time the Ontario Fire Department arrived at the scene early Saturday morning. Vernon County dispatch had received the 911 call at 4:23 a.m. The car's owner, James Frederick of 102 First St., Ontario, told...
State approval is pending on Monroe County ag enterprise area
By JOHN PAUL SCHALLER Courtesy of the Sparta Herald Landowners in southeastern Monroe County are waiting to hear from the state about the fate of a proposed ag enterprise area. The Monroe County Board last month paved the way for the venture when it passed a...
Burned-out house draws Norwalk Village Board’s attention
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher A Main Street home that burned earlier this winter prompted the Norwalk Village Board to alert the owner, Larris Ryan, that it would invoke condemnation proceedings, basing the action on a village ordinance. At the Tuesday...
