The Wisconsin Baseball Association (WBA) defending state champion Chaseburg Coon Valley Blues are headed back to the big show after a come from behind, bottom of the ninth, 5-4 walk-off win over the Eau Claire Bears in Regional action in…
More than two years ago the Norsemen Booster Club began forging forward with plans to move high school football games off city-owned property and to the school-owned athletic complex on the west side of the high school.
There was a lawn mower invasion in the village of Chaseburg on Saturday, Aug. 6, as this tight-knit community used yet another clever way to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Participants were all hoping to “Lei” cancer to…
The National Association of Enrolled Agents (NAEA) has presented Trish Evenstad, EA, of Westby, with the Emerging Leader Award for her skilled and enthusiastic leadership on the state and national levels.
Rhonda Wemette, a first grade teacher at Westby Elementary, has been selected as the Top Notch Teach for the month of August. The announcement before the end of the school year by Westby Elementary School Principal Bruce Peterson during the…
The first annual Roger Sidie Horse Pull will help kickoff this year’s Wild West Days in Viroqua on Friday, Aug. 19.
The Viroqua Chamber Main Street’s award-winning, Pop-Up Shop program returns for the holiday shopping season in 2016.
Right here in Viroqua, Community Hunger Solutions (CHS), a project of the Vernon Economic Development Association (VEDA), is tackling two immense problems: food waste and hunger that both stem from misallocation of precious global resources. National Geographic magazine (March 2016)…
I just got back from hiking 95 miles in the Sierras. (Yes, just like that Reese Witherspoon movie “Wild,” only far fewer miles.)
Please, people — stop denigrating Donald Trump as a foreign policy ignoramus.
The Viroqua American Legion baseball program had time to reflect on its national championship season at the team’s end-of-the-year potluck supper held at the Park Bowl, Wednesday, Aug. 10.
There is no lack of quaintness at the Joshua Sanford Field Airport.
Vernon County’s only circuit court judge, Michael Rosborough, plans to retire when his term is completed in the spring of 2017 after 31 years behind the bench.
I get an opportunity to greet a lot of people when selling my books at the farmers market in Viroqua.
I am eating a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich with my morning coffee as I tap this out this morning, trying not get mayo on the keys.
Since the fall of 1990, a lot of water from the Mississippi River has gone over the dam at Genoa and a lot of football has been played in The Pit at De Soto, Camp Randall, and Lambeau Field my…
“Is the strategy in the state to move all funding for schools to the local level?” a local school official asked me.
I read somewhere that August is like the Sunday of summer. Makes sense – there is a sense of hurrying up to pack in all the summer fun you can, while you can. People and events are already hinting at…
CORVALLIS — The Oregon State Extension Service will host a free small farms workshop for Hispanic farmers focusing on organic farming, at 7 p.m. Aug. 22 at the OSU Organic Growers Club, 34306 N.E. Electric Road, Corvallis.
The closure of Highway 20 at Sheep Creek Bridge about 26 miles east of Sweet Home two weeks ago has not hurt business at Linn County’s Clear Lake Resort, according to Brian Carroll, the county's parks manager.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio on Monday called on ATI Specialty Alloys and Components (also known as Wah Chang) to start cooperating with the U.S. Department of Labor to help workers and their families apply for a government benefits program.
