Monday, Feb. 11: Jerry Davidsavor of Stoddard lost control of his vehicle on his ice-covered driveway and struck a tree. He reported no injuries. Wednesday, Feb. 13: James Nash of Illinois was pulling out of a parking area at Central Express in Westby when his semi...
Senior menus for Feb. 25 to March 1
ONTARIO MEAL SITE Meals are served at the Milk Jug Café, 103 N. Garden St. To make a reservation, call 337-4448. (Note: March menus were not available at press time.) Monday, Feb. 25: Barbecue pork on sandwich buns, sweet-potato fries, fruit salad, mixed vegetables...
Kendall Public Library book club will gather Feb. 26
By LYNETTE VLASAK | Kendall librarian The February meeting of the Kendall Public Library book club will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the library. We will discuss Philip Roth's novel "Nemesis," which deals with the polio epidemic in the 1940s. If you haven't...
Elroy Public Library mystery-book group meets Monday
By MARY WAARVIK | Elroy librarian The Elroy Public Library mystery-book group will meet Monday to talk about the book we all read. I don't know if I should tell you what it is - after all, it is a mysterious group - but I can say that it is by an excellent author, it...
South Side News
By MYRNA FAUSKA After all of the inactivity since the first of the year, things have become busier. Ellen Satona's funeral was at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kendall on Tuesday morning, and in the afternoon, Frances Ziese's service was at Grace Lutheran...
South Ridge News
By ALICE BRANDAU Linda Palmer and her driver Jim Squires of La Crosse visited with me Wednesday morning. After Linda was declared legally blind at 50 years old, she proceeded to get more education pertaining to the visually handicapped, and today she has the title...
Scrapbook offers glimpse of early years in rural Ontario and Wilton
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Bless our readers, who periodically show up with bits and pieces that make good fodder for this column. The latest is a scrapbook kept by rural Ontario resident Ardys Bredlow's grandmother, Ethel Wallace. She was of the "waste not...
New group offers help to Lyme disease sufferers
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor It's an oddly insidious disease that for some requires no more than a short course of oral antibiotic therapy to cure, but for others, the effects are long lasting, excruciatingly painful and life changing. Western Wisconsin is...
Royall High School students named to honor roll
The following Royall High School students were named to the first-semester honor roll: Freshmen: Karl Anderson, Jacob Baldwin, Hunter Bigham, Tristan Dow, Abbie Field, Paige Hyer, Wrangler Jones, Taylor Juresh, Janie Lamb, Lindsay Logan, Katelyn Lunde, Nicole Miller,...
KVR to host art demonstration and sale
The Kickapoo Valley Reserve will host a creative communities art demonstration and sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at the KVR Visitor Center. Attendees may view and discuss art with a range of area artists, plus they may see works in progress and...