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UMGC Dean's List
Stacy Claire Scoggins of Coon Valley was named to the Dean's List for the fall semester at University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC). To be eligible for the honor, a student must complete at least six credits during the term, earned a grade point...
Linds Home Center Celebrates 50 Years This Week
Linds Home Center has been in business for 50 straight years. To celebrate, they will be hosting a two-day event featuring a variety of prizes and lunch provided by the Cashton FFA. A lot has changed in Cashton during these past 50 years, but Linds...
Julie Lundeen Works To Get Forensics Back To Pre-COVID Numbers
It's no secret that the Forensics competition at Cashton High School suffered from being canceled in the area for the duration of 2020 and enduring a fully virtual year in 2021. Since then, the...
Jolly Joiners' March Meeting
The Jolly Joiners 4H Club monthly meeting took place in the Cashton High School ag room on March 5, on a perfect fresh day. Beforehand, a number of club members took part in a flower arrangement activity, led by Kelly Schaller from Mabels on Main....
Cashton February Assembly
Cashton Elementary held their February assembly where students received a variety of awards for being respectful, responsible and safe. Students of the Month in PE, Art and Music were also...
Tractor hauling tractor rolls over
On March 8, 2023 shortly before 3:32 PM, Alan A. Seelow, age 63, of rural Chaseburg, WI, was traveling eastbound on Unseth Road in the Town of Christiana near Select Sires. Seelow was driving a tractor pulling a trailer that was hauling a second...
Museum Notes
Today, it is not uncommon for a woman from the U.S. to travel around the world for a career, but in the early 1900’s, such a life was hard to imagine. So, when 25-year-old Emma Olson of Round...
An Outdoorsman's Journal
Monster Walleye on Little Bay de Noc Hello friends, This past week I put another serious test on the Chevy Hotel with the load I was pulling and some go for it driving on Upper Michigan's Little Bay d...
SHERIFF ROY TORGERSON REPORTS THE FOLLOWING ONGOING ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR AND NARRATIVE EXCERPTS FROM THE WEEK ENDING March 11, 2023.
03/06- Amanda Johnson, La Farge, lost control on the slush-covered roadway while driving westbound on Cook Hill Road, town of Viroqua. The vehicle traveled off the road and struck a tree. Johnson had suspected minor injury but was not transported....
Easter Egg Hunt returns this year
The annual Good Friday Easter Egg Hunt is back this year. The event was last held in 2019. The Cashton Cub Scouts gathered over the weekend to help stuff Easter Eggs with nick nacks for the event...
Cashton Elementary knocks over cereal boxes
Cashton Elementary School Held Cereal Drive for Cashton Cupboard and Closet and Bethel Buttik and took part in Do Good Wisconsin’s Cereal Box Domino Challenge in February. This contest was launched...
Cashton School Play Takes Audiences Back To The 80s
Back To The 80s was a musical put on by the Cashton Middle/High School this past weekend that featured a multitude of 80s hits and ballads such as Footloose, Total Eclipse Of The Heart, and Never...
MAKING AN IMPACT ON THE FINE ARTS IN CASHTON
Some of the goals of the Cashton Fine Arts Boosters (CFAB) are being realized. Last month they supported the Forensics team by providing food for the team prior to their contest in Bangor and this...
LOCAL STUDENTS GRADUATE FROM UW-MADISON
Just over 1,750 students received degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison during a commencement ceremony at the Kohl Center on Dec. 18, 2022. About 1,200 of them took part in the ceremony at the Kohl Center. Total attendance, including...
Thank you, Amish neighbors, in Clinton
Beyond the month-to-month business of running Clinton township in the last two years, (only 5 months for me) the board has three main achievements I would like to highlight. This month voluntary Amish contributions paid off approximately twenty per c...
Storytime At The Cashton Memorial Library
Storytime is as old as the Cashton library itself. Jill Bjornstad has made sure storytime has continued during her entire time working for the library, and for good reason. Throughout the years, Jill has had help with at least one other volunteer...
Western Technical College to host Open House
Western Technical College will host its bi-annual college-wide open house event on Wednesday, March 15 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. at the La Crosse, Black River Falls, Independence, Mauston, Tomah and Viroqua locations. Additionally, the Vehicle Technology...
An Outdoorsman's Journal
Excellent Fishing in Sawyer County Hello friends, This week's column will be all over the map but it's a good one. Location: Sawyer County near Birchwood. Activity: winter camp on Chetac lake with my...
Museum Notes
In December, 2022, the Vernon County Times featured an unidentified photograph on the “Good Morning” page of a local home, taken from the Vernon County Museum/History Center archives. The only...
Semi Rollover
Vernon County Sheriff Roy R. Torgerson reports: On March 6, 2023, at approximately 12:07 p.m. The Vernon Co. Emergency 911 dispatch center was notified of a semi truck rollover north of Westby....
Cashton Lions help build beds for Monroe County children
Furniture can be unaffordable for some, especially during difficult economic times. One organization is doing their part to ensure some children have a bed to sleep on. Founded In Kimberly, Idaho in 2...
Cashton In Need Of New Director Of Public Works
After 39 years, Dave Bekkum of Cashton is stepping down from municipal government and retiring. Throughout his career, Dave has worked for Warrens, Westby, and most recently Cashton as the Director of Public Works. In Cashton, Dave was responsible...
VERNON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE RECEIVES $237,772.59 911 COMMUNICATIONS GRANT
Vernon County Sheriff Roy Torgerson is pleased to announce the Sheriff’s Office received $237,772.59 in grant funding through the State of Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs, Office of...
Museum Notes
“In southwestern Wisconsin, tobacco has assumed a symbolic significance as a marker of rural Norwegian-American ethnic identification.” Researchers Robert Ibarra and Arnold Strickon asserted this...
An Outdoorsman's Journal
The 5th Annual "Tip Up Pike Jam" Hello friends, Some of you may remember when I wrote back in January about going on an ice fishing/camping trip with my 22-year-old daughter Selina Walters and she...
