The adoption of the farm bill presents a new set of risk management procedures to dairy farm operations nationwide. On July 30, Royal Bank hosted a dairy workshop aimed at helping dairy farmers understand how the proposed farm bill will affect their risk management...

Contributed by VERNON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION The next Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club meeting is set for Wednesday, Sept. 10, at the Food Enterprise Center, 1201 N. Main St., Viroqua. Networking starts at 5:30 p.mn.; and the program, at 6 p.m. Vince Hundt,...

Richard Case of Ontario has been elected as an alternate delegate to the 131st annual American Angus Association Convention of Delegates, which is set for Thursday, Nov. 6, at the KCI Expo Center in Kansas City, Mo. Case, a member of the St. Joseph, Mo.-based American...

This week the Norwalk United Methodist Women will wrap up a summer of reaching out to the community by offering free lunches. The program began when the women realized that many children in the community might need an extra boost at lunch time in the absence of school...

Don Jones, president of the Ontario Development Corporation, presents a check to Ontario Village Clerk Terri Taylor on behalf of the corporation. Jones said the group had planned to donate $500 for Palen Park improvements, but at the suggestion of Development...

Ontario Public Works Director Paul Gibson puts the finishing touches on the area around a drinking fountain he recently installed in Palen Park. The stone and concrete fountain was a gift from the Kickapoo Valley Reserve, which recently upgraded to a wall-mounted...

The University of Wisconsin Extension and its partners in the three-county region recently announced the inaugural session of the Crawford-Monroe-Vernon Leadership Program. According to a press release prepared by the UW Extension, the CMV Leadership Program "focuses...