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Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 10:08am
The Monroe County Rolling Hills Committee is beginning a push this month to reinvigorate support for a new senior care facility to replace its current aging and obsolete nursing home.
It will be giving a presentation on the changing status of the project at next week’s county board meeting and...
Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 10:06am
Construction of seven new homes in military family housing continues to make progress with the project being 78 percent complete, said Nathan Butts with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Resident Office at Fort McCoy.
Contractor Relyant Global LLC of Maryville, Tenn., began work on the $6.6 million...
Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 10:01am
Back in May 2019, the Sparta School Board approved the proposal from CommonWealth Development Corporation for the purchase and proposed use of the district’s Administrative and Education Center (AEC).
Superintendent Dr. Amy Van Deuren recently received an email from the owner of CommonWealth, Louie...
Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 9:58am
On Monday night retiring Tomah Superintendent Cindy Zahrte was able to have her cake and eat it to.
But she shared with those at the Tomah School Board meeting
Zahrte presided over her final board meeting before she retires the end of this month. Zahrte served as superintendent 10 years replacing...
Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 9:53am
Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata is an invasive species brought to America by gardeners/ cooks who wanted the taste of a salad green they were used to eating in Europe. Germans, Brits, Norwegians? Let’s blame the French- Ooh La La!
Seriously, Garlic Mustard has become a huge problem in many...
Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 9:50am
He's only been on the job as a natural-resources specialist for the Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch for six months, but Kevin Luepke has a long history of supporting Fort McCoy's programs.
"My responsibilities are quite broad," Luepke said. "This includes...
Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 9:46am
Mississippi Valley Broadcasters, LLC, d/b/a La Crosse Media Group, has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to sell WQCC-FM, KQEG-FM, and WLFN-AM to Magnum Communications, Inc., d/b/a Magnum.Media.
Pat Smith is Managing Member of La Crosse Media Group, while Dave Magnum...
Monday, June 15, 2020 - 10:28am
The number of COVID-19 cases in Monroe County is on the rise.
On Friday, June 12, the Monroe County Health Department reported two new cases of the virus, including a male in his 70s and a female in her 20s both with mild symptoms.
On Saturday, June 13, the MCHD reported two additional cases. They...
Monday, June 15, 2020 - 10:25am
For Adam Ohm, what started as the wind down to a typical day at work Monday, June 8, turned into an adrenaline-filled few moments where his actions saved a man from certain injury and possible death.
The 1999 Sparta High School grad works as a salesman for Fastenal in the Indianapolis area. He was...
Monday, June 15, 2020 - 10:12am
It all started with sadness. About a month into quarantine Jessica Crandell, of Sparta, found herself missing people and she started to sink into a funk.
“I started looking online at things people were doing to get through it,” she said.
Crandell found a Facebook group called Wine Dash. Members of...