Three community meetings will focus on building a coalition of farmers, parents and community members who want to develop a farm-to-school effort in the Tomah, Sparta and Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton school districts. The meetings will be on the following...
Royall students cast votes
Students at Royall Elementary and Intermediate schools participated in their own mock presidential election Oct. 30. With the use of iPads, each student in grades kindergarten through sixth cast his or her vote for either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. The...
N-O-W students named artists of the month
The Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School artists of the month for September/October are the following: • Sixth-grader Emily Powell, daughter of Chad and Dawn Powell of Norwalk, created a clay fish. • Fifth-grader Henry Marriott, son of Laura Marriott of Wilton and...
N-O-W Performing Arts Fair
Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School fifth-graders were invited to participate in a Performing Arts Fair on Oct. 10. Eleven students volunteered to take part.
Brookwood Veterans Day program set for Nov. 8
Brookwood High School's annual Veterans Day program will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in the middle school gymnasium. The event is open to the public.
BHS Special Olympics students compete in bowling tourney
Contributed by HEIDI KELLY Brookwood Special Olympics coach I'd like to give a huge congratulations to our awesome, spectacular Brookwood Special Olympics bowlers. We had a very successful day Oct. 14 at the regional bowling tournament in La Crosse. The following are...
School districts receive DPI report cards; staff work to align curriculum to new standards
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Reporter School districts statewide received the results last week of a new evaluation system when the Department of Public Instruction released its preliminary school report cards. Schools' scores are based on the results of the...
Mill rate rises 10.1 percent at N-O-W
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Reporter Though the Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton School District reduced its operational budget by $199,701, a decline in other revenues resulted in a 10.1 percent mill-rate hike. When the board of education approved the budget at its annual...
State report card reveals plenty of room for improvement at local school districts
Links to local schools' DPI report cards appear at the end of this article. By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor It could have been worse, but it could have been better, the Royall and Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton school districts learned after the Wisconsin Department of...
Royall mill rate goes up
By SARAH PARKER | County Line Reporter The Royall School District mill rate was set at 12.73, an increase from 11.04 in 2011-12, at the board of education's meeting Monday. Based on equalized valuation, the owner of a $100,000 property would pay $1,273 in taxes...
