By JESSICA SHOWEN | CLC Coordinator This month at the Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Community Learning Center, students will delve into STEM (science, technology, engineering and math projects), a huge initiative in the after-school world, as mandated by the state Department...
Editorial cartoon
Money & Politics: State health sector gets drug dollars
By BILL LUEDERS Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Journalist Steven Brill, in his recent 24,000-word Time magazine article on how the U.S. medical establishment is fleecing consumers, touted a database run by ProPublica, the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Guest column: Reports that we are dying are greatly exaggerated
By CHERYL WORMLEY Back in 1897, James Ross Clemens was ill. Not-so-careful passing on of information resulted in word that Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was dying in London. When an enterprising reporter decided to check on...
Royall takes third in statewide contest
Earlier this year, a Royall High School team took third in the state stock-market simulation sponsored by the Wisconsin Council on Economic Education. Only Appleton North and Westosha Central (Paddock Lake) high schools placed ahead of the Panther team. Collin Miller...
Civil War program slated for May 9 at local history room
The Monroe County Local History Room will offer a Civil War program, “A Post-Civil War Mortality View of Salisbury Prisoners from Wisconsin,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9. Researcher Ronald D. Nichols will examine the experiences of Monroe County soldiers...
Wilton book groups to discuss ‘Gilead,’ ‘Heart of Darkness’
By GINA RAE | Wilton librarian It's time to pick up your books for May's book groups. The Wilton Public Library book group will discuss "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson at 10 a.m. Monday, May 13. The classic-novels book discussion will be at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 2. The...
Kendall Fundfest
The Kendall Lions Club hosted its annual Fundfest dinner and auction Saturday. Above: Lions member Ron Garvens (left) holds an item as Ken Brandau auctions it off. Below: Lynette Vlasak presents the club's citizen of the year award to Caroline and Don Braund.
The kindness of strangers: Community helps family recover from fire
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Evangelina Mendoza had just stepped out of her mobile home in Ontario to call on a neighboring family member. Like many busy moms, she popped a load of clothes in the dryer before she left. That was a big mistake. The dryer caught...
Vernon County Sheriff's Report for April 1–7
Monday, April 1: Cody Grimsled of De Soto was backing from a driveway onto Bad Axe Road in the town of Genoa and did not see a car driven by Diane Strzeszewski of De Soto. Strzeszewski couldn't stop on the icy road and struck the Grimsled vehicle in the rear. No...
