As a result of patient feedback, St. Joseph's announced that earlier phone business hours had started Monday, Jan. 7. You can call St. Joseph's Clinic at 489-8280 to schedule appointments in Elroy, Hillsboro and Wonewoc, starting at 7 a.m. Monday through Friday. To...
Vernon County Sheriff's Report for Jan. 14–20
Friday, Jan. 18: Kerri Johnson of Cashton lost control of her vehicle on a curve of County Highway P, town of Clinton. She went off road and struck a fence. Johnson reported minor injuries. Friday, Jan. 18: Two burglaries were reported. On Rainbow Drive in the town...
Echo Valley Hope to offer Celebrating Beloved Community program
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...
Utility charges favor companies more and more
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Younger readers may find this astounding, but when we moved to the Kickapoo Valley in 1976, phone service was a tad strange: Our only option was a three-party line. That never proved to be a problem, as one of the parties was a...
Wilton Public Library story times start Wednesday, Feb. 6
By KAREN CARR | Wilton librarian Story time will start Wednesday, Feb. 6, at the Wilton Public Library and will go through May 10. ♦ ♦ ♦ We are reading "Elegy for Eddie" for our book discussion, which will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 11....
On Campus
• Jonathan Goodenough of Elroy received an associate's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Richland after the fall 2012 semester.
Elroy Public Library still waiting for tax forms
By MARY WAARVIK | Elroy librarian The Elroy Public Library has not yet received its shipment of tax forms from the IRS and the State of Wisconsin. We have been informed that the IRS will not begin processing returns until Jan. 30 at the earliest. When the forms do...
Ontario book group to discuss ‘My Antonia’
By LAURIE ERICKSON | Ontario librarian The Ontario Public Library book group will discuss "My Antonia" by Willa Cather at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13. Stop by the library for a copy if you would like to join us. ♦ ♦ ♦ A planning meeting on the Read, Seed, Weed, &...
New books available at Norwalk Public Library
By JEANNE RICE | Norwalk librarian The Norwalk Public Library has new items. Fiction • "The Man Who Could Never Love" by Kate Hewitt • "Death in the Floating City: A Lady Emily Mystery" by Tasha Alexander • "Buffalo Bill's Dead Now" ("Wind River Mysteries," No. 16) by...
South Ridge News
By ALICE BRANDAU It only takes a split second to have your life go in a different direction, and so it was for friend and neighbor Hazel Pasch, who fell on concrete, doing some serious damage to her left wrist. She had surgery at the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center...
