If there is anything good about a flood, it does force a major house cleaning. This week marks five years since the flood of 2018 that swept through Ontario, built up steam, and continued on its way to the Wisconsin and the Mississippi, leaving behind a forever-changed landscape in the towns along the Kickapoo River.

By KAREN PARKER County Line Publisher Emerita Once in a while, just for kicks, I pull out one of the many bound volumes of the County Line that are clogging up the backroom in the office. This year marks 40 years of publication, so as you imagine, there is quite a...

By KAREN PARKER County Line Publisher Emerita Last week, just for fun, I sat through a webinar from the Wisconsin Department of Justice on how to train people to train people to control, manage or prevent school shootings. As you might have guessed, it was actually...

Okay, dear readers. You may find this piece tedious, and you can skim it, but please, please, read to the end of this week’s column. Here it goes:

I wonder if somewhere in the great state of Wisconsin — if someone, anyone — remembered Kenneth Palmer on Memorial Day.

Okay, it wasn’t a huge surprise. There has been chatter for some years. But this week, the publisher of the La Crosse Tribune announced the newspaper will print only on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

By KAREN PARKER | County Line Publisher Emerita karen@thecountyline.net Okay, we were warned. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race will be the nastiest and most expensive in history. Buckle up as we head to the April 4 election. I suggest it will be impossible to go online...