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Looking Back...
TO OUR READERS and FRIENDS: The New Year is the traditional season of hope. Hope for a lasting peace. Hope for a speedy reunion with loved ones far distant. Hope for happiness and hope for health....
Looking Back at "News of the Men In Service"
Kenneth Hoesly Commander of Legion Post At the July meeting of the Stuessy-Kuenzi Post of the American Legion, Kenneth H. Hoesly was elected Commander of the Post. Other officers elected are Gerald...
The Fall of South Vietnam
As has become rote, a nearly every year in late April trip was recently made to Oak Grove Cemetery at Tomah, Wisconsin. This yearly Sunday trip always brings with it memories of that last Thursday...
Monticello Historical Society Learns the History of the Monticello Livestock Sales Barn
Last Monday night, members of the Monticello Area Historical Society and the public were treated to an excellent program presented by Jim McNeill,...
December 1944
The holiday season was about to begin across much of the world. A time for joyous family dinners, platters of lovingly prepared holiday foods, including those ethnic delicacies often prepared and...
The Empty Chair, Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1944
For the third year in a row, the extended family gathered for their traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Cousins, aunts, and uncles always looked forward to, and treasured, this special day. And as it...
November 11, 1944
Seventy five years ago this week, November 5th-12th changed the course of WWII. Momentum was beginning to swing toward an Allied victory, bringing to an end a war that had torn Europe apart since...
Gifts That Foster Hope
What do you get when you mix the Apparitions Motorcycle Club with Green County Human Services? There no doubt are numerous answers to the question. The correct answer is a hand up to helping out...
Reunion Held at Meadow Valley School
This past Friday, students of the Meadow Valley School, several miles southwest of New Glarus, gathered for a reunion in their old school house. Like...
Bradley Presented "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
Madison Vietnam veteran, Doug Bradley, did a presentation on his book We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, that he co-authored with Craig Werner. Their book, which won the 2015 Rolling Stone’s Best...
Heavy Bombers Weekend in Southern Wisconsin
If the skies over southern Wisconsin seemed a bit more noisy than usual, and non-typical airplanes flying over southern Wisconsin this past weekend,...
Freitag Farm Sesquicentennial
Over the past two centuries, many words have been spoken and written about the Wisconsin Territory describing the land we call home. Eloquent and...
Apparitions MC Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Waking up early on Saturday morning, taking a 5:30 a.m. peek out the east front door at the just-rising sun and feeling a gentle breeze, you immediate...
Apparitions MC to Celebrate 50 Years
"Because they are made right here in Wisconsin!" That's the answer you get when you ask the members of the Apparitions Motorcycle Club, based in...
Memories of MATC Downtown Campus
As I read the page one article in this morning’s Wisconsin State Journal, “After 98 years, it’s farewell,” pertaining to the closing of the downtown MATC campus, I was reminded of a line from...
Jerry Apps Pens "Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm"
Jerry Apps latest book, Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm, delivers in wonderful small doses exactly what the title states. He dedicates the book to his parents, Herman and Eleanor Apps,...
Historical Marker Reinstalled at Primrose Lutheran Church
This past week, members of the Primrose Lutheran Church re-installed the Wisconsin Historical Marker which was originally installed in 1995. The years...
The Women of the Vietnam War
This Veteran’s Day marks the 25th anniversary of the dedication of the Women’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The words of retired Admiral William...
Monticello Empty Stocking Fundraiser
Monticello has always been a community with a big heart. That big heart shined bright this past Saturday when the Wittenwyler brothers opened up...
Memories of School Days
This past Sunday, through the graciousness of Nan and Bob Rudd of rural New Glarus, memories, in some cases going back 80 years, came back to life as...
Looking at History, "Letters from the Boys"
Tell a friend that you're reading a book by an economics professor, and the likely response will be along the lines of, "I'll bet that's a real page...
Authors to Discuss Book at Swiss United Church of Christ New Glarus
The Swiss United Church of Christ in New Glarus is proud to invite the public to a very special author's talk on Thursday, April 26th, beginning at...
Rainbow Fleece Farm Celebrating Fortieth Anniversary
Farmers often have their own unique way keeping track of major events on their farms, "the year the barn burned, the drought year, the year we lost...
New Glarus High School Student Pens Second Book
The words on the back cover of Alexys Strahm's second book, A Segregated Romance, immediately draw in the reader. "He said, Love is Colorblind. Three...
Dean Streiff Retires From Wilhelm Tell Play
"I tried to quit once, but they wouldn't let me!" When Dean Streiff says his last line, "the tyrants" as Werni The Hunter in this weekend's annual...
