Fifty units were collected at the Wilton community blood drive Saturday, March 23. Simon Wells of Sparta joined the 9-gallon club; and Dean Leis of Wilton, the 5-gallon club. The next Wilton blood drive will be from 7–11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at St....
Ontario police arrest man after alleged domestic dispute
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Reporter The Ontario Police Department responded to a village residence twice in four days, eventually arresting a man suspected of domestic abuse. On Friday, Chief Matt Hoskins was called to a report of a fight outside a trailer at 103...
History room will present program on Wild West Shows
The Monroe County Local History Room will present “Wild West Shows of the Nineteenth Century: Entertainment, Myth, and the Creation of American Identity” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4. John Grider of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse history department...
VSN seeks volunteers to monitor water quality
Valley Stewardship Network seeks participants for its Water Action Volunteers team, a group that helps gather water-quality data from local streams and rivers. Volunteers monitor stream flow, water temperature, dissolved oxygen and pH, macro invertebrates, water...
Driftless Writing Center to host Wisconsin Poet Laureate
The Driftless Writing Center in Viroqua will offer a weekend of poetry featuring Marilyn Taylor, Wisconsin Poet Laureate from 2009–10, on Friday, April 5, and Saturday, April 6. Taylor will be the featured reader at the monthly First Friday Poetry Reading,...
Money & Politics: Spending subdued in high court race
By BILL LUEDERS Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism What if they held a Wisconsin Supreme Court election and nobody spent staggering sums trying to influence its outcome? Witness the faceoff between Justice Patience Roggensack and challenger Ed Fallone. With...
Driftless Wisconsin visitor brochures make their debut
The 2013 Driftless Wisconsin visitor brochure has been published and is now available for distribution. Driftless Wisconsin Inc. is a tourism promotion organization representing a collaboration among the Kickapoo Valley Association, Crawford County Tourism Council,...
Camaraderie wanes with loss of local business ownership
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor March has come and gone, and the usual feasting on pancakes and hot dogs has gone missing. Not to put a too sentimental point on it, but I feel a touch of nostalgia for the customer appreciation days that blossomed like the first...
‘Local Produce: From Ground to School’ set for April 3 at Brookwood High School
Monroe County Schools on the Go will host "Local Produce: From Ground to School" with farmer Josh Engel, co-owner of Driftless Organics, in the three coalition school districts in April. Engel will speak about the 40-acre diversified vegetable farm and will cover...
Monroe County sets WIC check-issuance days
The Monroe County Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) will offer the following check-issuance days in April. • 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 10 • 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 Participants can come...
