Echo Valley Hope, a rural Ontario nonprofit organization, will offer a program, Celebrating Beloved Community, from Jan. 18–21 at Echo Valley Farm, E14604 County Road F at Z, Ontario. Attendees will consider the implications of Martin Luther King’s words: “Our goal is...
Lyme disease support group to form in Hillsboro
A new support group for Lyme disease sufferers and their families will hold its initial informal gathering at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, in the Hillsboro Public Library meeting room, 819 High Ave. For more information, email garycepek@yahoo.com or call 489-2725 and...
Celebrating winter
Kendall man charged with disorderly conduct
After failing to appear in Monroe County Court on Monday, Matthew Sweatt of 27378 Monitor Road, Kendall, is scheduled to appear Thursday on criminal charges of disorderly conduct in connection with a Jan. 3 incident in Kendall. According to the police report Sweatt,...
Vernon County to offer immunization clinics
The Vernon County Health Department will conduct immunization clinics on the following dates: • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16 — First Congregational Church, 620 High Ave., Hillsboro • 9–11:30 a.m. and 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday,...
Farm recordkeeping workshop slated for Jan. 15
The University of Wisconsin-Extension and Western Technical College will offer a beginning farm recordkeeping workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, at Western Technical College in Tomah. The class will focus on Quickbooks software, a financial...
Ontario’s yuletide merriment
The Ontario Community Club hosted its annual Ontario Old-Fashioned Christmas event Dec. 8, offering music, food, a book-signing with Orion Samuelson and visits with Santa, among other activities. Here, Anna Peterson meets Santa. For more photos of the event, click here.
Merry music
Royall Middle School and Intermediate School students gave their Christmas concert Thursday. Here, Daniel Retzlaff, Zach Ormson and Sierra Steinmetz (left to right) perform. For more photos of the concert, click here.
Christmas in Kendall
WDRT to offer scholarship
WDRT, a Viroqua-based, listener-supported community radio station, is offering its WDRT Young Communicator Scholarship to graduating seniors in the listening area. WDRT, in keeping with its mission of teaching the art of broadcasting and the production of...
