The Wilton Village Board approved contract language Monday governing the expansion of its ambulance district. After Kendall discontinued its ambulance service in May, Wilton, along with other bordering municipalities, agreed to take over the territory. The contract...
Competing bands’ holiday clash peeves Ontario board
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor If you like rock in one ear and country in the other, July 4 and July 7 were perfect evenings to be in Ontario. The Ontario Village Board held a lengthy debate Monday on how to manage competing music venues that are separated by...
Kendall police officer requests new title
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Kendall police officer Rich Laxton asked the Kendall Village Board for a new title at its meeting Monday. Officially, Laxton is known as "Marshal Laxton," but the officer finds that clumsy and confusing to the public. Laxton...
Elroy Fair
The Elroy Fair was Thursday through Sunday, and exhibitors brought an array of animals for the event. Pictured is Vanessa Ornes of Norwalk showing a guinea pig during the small-animal show. Click here for more fair photos.
Reduced hours on tap for area post offices
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor If the U.S. Postal Service gets its way, area communities will soon have much shorter hours at their local post offices. The plan is part of a broad initiative to reduce costs for an agency that continues to struggle with a budget...
Sharpen up, Falcon girls: Coach Dull is here
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor As the lyrics from the Keith Urban song go, "There's a new wind blowing." In this case, the new wind is Greg Dull, and conventional wisdom is his coaching abilities will produce a winning season for the Brookwood varsity girls...
Elroy man sustains injuries in single-vehicle crash
Police say alcohol likely played a role in a single-vehicle town of Glendale crash Thursday evening. Gaylin S. Johnson, 57, of Elroy lost control of his 1997 Ford Ranger truck on Oyster Road, a gravel road about one-tenth mile south of Owl Avenue, according to the...
Ontario man killed in farm accident
Twenty-six-year-old Joel Dobbs of Ontario died Thursday evening after his tractor overturned in the town of Whitestown, according to a release prepared by the Vernon County Sheriff's Department. Dobbs had been spreading manure on a hillside at the end of Downing Road,...
Blacktop tractor pull on tap in Wilton
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Reporter A group of tractor pull enthusiasts received permission from the Wilton Village Board on Monday to put on a blacktop tractor pull Saturday, July 7, but a proposal to offer a dirt-track pull in 2013 was put on hold. The dirt-track...
Resident lodges complaints about Ontario junk piles
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Ontario resident Rosella Pohl kept village board occupied at its meeting Monday, presenting a range of complaints about junk accumulating on properties. Pohl, who manages the Driftwood Inn, a Garden Street hotel, was particularly...
