By NATE BEIER | Special to the County Line Make no mistake, expectations for the Royall boys basketball team are high this year - incredibly high. The team has been projected to win the Scenic Bluffs Conference title and are a pre-season favorite its sectional,...
Bob Nixon
Bob Nixon of Anacortes, Wash., died Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. Bob Nixon was born in the town of Sheldon to Charles and Josephine Nixon in August 1919. He was the youngest of three children and grew up in Ontario, where he graduated in 1939 from Ontario High School, in a...
Leo “Ole” E. Woods
Leo “Ole” E. Woods, 97, of Ontario passed away Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, at the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse. He was born Feb. 16, 1915, in the town of Whitestown to Charles and Minnie (Budde) Woods. Leo attended the Oden country school and graduated...
Opening-weekend harvest figures on upswing
The DNR’s preliminary figures indicate that hunters harvested 134,722 deer statewide during opening weekend. Overall, the harvest is up 19 percent from the 2011 tally, and buck harvests increased by 24 percent. According to the agency, 614,345 licenses for the...
Streetwork, utilities upgrade proposed for Kendall
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Reporter Putting forward a plan to replace sanitary sewer lines and a water main on Spring Street, the Kendall Village Board agreed at its meeting Nov. 5 to apply for Community Development Block Grant funds. The estimated cost of the...
South Side News
By MYRNA FAUSKA The neighbors have been getting ready for deer-hunting season, which opened Saturday. Not all folks in the valley are hunters, but they are caught up in the season whether they want to be or not. Most of our news from the past week centers on the...
If we can’t fix the military, could we rescue the Twinkie?
By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Zounds, what a week for news. On one hand, we have the threatened demise of the Twinkie, and on the other, a four-star general with the raging hormones of a teenage boy. There's nothing like a threat to our sweet tooth and a juicy...
Royall FFA attends World Dairy Expo
Ontario book group to discuss ‘Black Boy’
By LAURIE ERICKSON | Ontario librarian The Ontario Public Library book group will discuss "Black Boy" by Richard Wright at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28. If you would like to join us, it's not too late to stop in the library and pick up a copy. ♦ ♦ ♦ Preschool...
Elroy Public Library to show children’s movies
By MARY WAARVIK | Elroy librarian Free children's movies will be shown at the Elroy Public Library on Friday. At 1 p.m., kids and accompanying adults are welcome to join us in our meeting room. It will be a double feature: "Merry Madagascar" and "Animal Atlas." In...
