By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor The Ontario Village Board heard competing requests for the same pot of money at its meeting Monday. Representing the Forward Ontario group, Dale Hanson told the board that work would soon start on a gazebo as part of Palen Park...
Ontario man gets probation in dairy herd starvation
By RENAE CALDWELL Courtesy of the Sparta Herald An Ontario man whose neglect resulted in the deaths of about two dozen head of cattle was convicted of animal mistreatment in Monroe County Circuit Court last week. Daniel L. Miller, 38, was sentenced to three years...
Kendall Village Board raises assorted fees
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Reporter To ease budgetary constraints, the Kendall Village Board increased several municipal fees at its regular meeting Monday. Operator's licenses at present cost $7 for a provisional license and $10 for a regular license. But a new...
Rights and duties explained to N-O-W board
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor When the Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Board of Education met Monday, attorney Ben Richter of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards spent about 1 ½ hour reviewing school board members' rights, responsibilities and duties under state...
Argument at Brookwood results in court date
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Verbal sparring between a Brookwood staff member and a parent at a youth basketball game on Jan. 5 has ended with a Monroe Circuit Court date scheduled for Monday, Feb. 25. The incident involved Doug Gnewikow of Ontario and the...
Names released in town of Adrian accident
The Monroe County Sheriff's Department released the names of those involved in a fatal two-vehicle crash in the town of Adrian on Friday. The occupants of the westbound vehicle were the driver, Terry L. McCollam, 47, of Tomah, along with the front-seat passenger,...
17-year-old drowns in town of Clinton
A 17-year-old Amish boy who had been cutting blocks of ice on a spring-fed pond drowned Saturday in the town of Clinton, according to Vernon County Sheriff John Spears. During a 911 call made at 12:02 p.m., Lester Mullet Jr.'s father reported that he had been unable...
Tomah woman dies in town of Adrian accident
A Tomah woman died Friday morning in a two-vehicle crash in the town of Adrian, according to Monroe County Sheriff Peter Quirin. The crash occurred at 9:16 a.m. on Highway 16, about 300 feet east of Hazel Avenue, in the town of Adrian. One of the vehicles involved in...
Ontario woman charged with giving her children sleeping pills
An Ontario woman appeared in Monroe County Circuit Court on Jan. 22, facing two counts of manufacture/deliver schedule IV drugs. Tena M. Bell, 33, was ordered to pay a $250 bond. The charges stem from allegations that she gave two of her children sleeping pills in...
Kendall woman faces narcotic charges
A Kendall woman was charged with possessing a narcotic after a traffic stop Jan. 18, the Tomah Monitor-Herald reported Monday. Jacqueline M. Ziglinski, 44, was traveling 70 mph in a 55-mph zone on Highway 71 when she was pulled over. Police took her into custody after...
