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Siblings Host Family Gathering At Old Family Home

Around 1964, the White family moved into a home on the edge of Hillsboro, located next to the Hillsboro Condensed Milk Company. Though the company soon went out of business after the Whites moved in, …

Kids' Market Planned For New Wonewoc Farmers' Market

Wonewoc will be welcoming its first farmers’ market on Saturday, May 10, over at the 400 Trail rest area behind the village hall and fire station. The farmers’ market has been spearheaded …

Hillsboro Hosta Opens For 2025 Season

April is almost through, the weather is becoming increasingly warm, and the days are getting progressively longer. As the world greens up through the remainder of spring, those with green thumbs are …

A Taste Of The Tropics In Hillsboro

When you think about tropical fruit, one of the first things you’ll think of will likely be the pineapple. This tropical fruit is indigenous to South America, though there’s little …

Arbor Day Observance Recalls Work Of Hillsboro Local

Try to imagine a world without trees. No towering redwoods or giant sequoias, no weeping willows or sturdy oaks, not even the ancient ginkgo. It can be hard to think about, because humanity has never …

Keep Your Eyes On The Pies This Good Friday

The Hillsboro Woman’s Civic Club have a proud tradition of baking and selling homemade pies at a variety of local events, from the annual Musicale at Field Veterans’ Park to past events …

Hillsboro Woman's Civic Club Continues Support For Lights For Bikes

If there’s one thing our corner of Wisconsin is known for, it’s the bike trails. The famous Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail, which was the first Rails to Trails project in the country, feeds into …

Community Discussion Panel On Online Sextortion Planned For April 16

When I was a child, in the late 90s and early 00s, widespread access to the internet was still largely in its infancy. Social media—at least as we think of it today—had yet to exist, with …

Wonewoc-Center Student Recognized By Charity Event

When a family welcomes a new child, the main hope most parents will have is that their child will be born healthy and everything will go smoothly. This turns out to be the case for most families, but …

Take Some Time For Tea With The Elroy Library

What do you think of when you hear the words ‘tea party’? Perhaps you envision something like a scene out of Downton Abbey , where ladies in fancy dresses and hats titter over delicate …

Easter Egg Hunts Carry On Old World Traditions

We’ve long since passed the vernal equinox, marking the first official day of spring back on March 20. As the calendar has now firmly moved into the month of April, that means Easter is close …

Translating Glass Into Felt At The Wonewoc Library

Humans have long-since been fascinated by colored glass and the way light shines through it. We have archaeological evidence of colored glass being produced as far back as Ancient Rome and Ancient …

Hillsboro Care For Kids Continues With New Donation Collectors

Ensuring that children receive a good education requires more than a classroom and a teacher. A student’s ability to focus on their studies can be impacted by a plethora of factors that their …

United Methodist Church Reforms As Wonewoc Grace Community Church

In 2023, roughly a quarter of Methodist congregations opted to split from the United Methodist Church, largely over issues involving sexuality and gender identity. There had been a December 31 …

Kendall Library Announces March Programming

The Kendall Public Library will be hosting a variety of programs and events during the month of March. While some events are one-time only affairs, others will be occurring on a weekly basis. …

Kindergarten Class Learns About Dental Hygiene

For all the talk of healthcare we hear on a daily basis, there never seems to be quite as much attention given to dental health. We don’t even include dental in standard health plans, opting to …

Elroy Library Receives Children's Book Project Grant

Over 100 brand new hardcover children’s books arrived at the Elroy Public Library this week.  Opening the three large boxes, pulling out each pristine book, and being the first to flip …

Get Comfortable While Supporting A Local Organization

As winter continues to trudge on until some nebulous future day when we might see a temperature above freezing for more than two days at a time, it’s as good a time as any to get some reading …

Local Family Seeks To Raise Funds For Rare Disease Research

Any parent worth their salt would likely wish for their child to be born healthy and with no complications. Unfortunately, this is a wish that does not always come true, no matter how well-prepared …

STEM Night At Elroy Library Focuses On Learning Through Play

Your child has big dreams for the future. Last you heard, they want to be a cowboy-astronaut-ballerina-paleontologist-football star. Or maybe they want to be a farmer, or a firefighter, or another …

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