Hixton News

LuVerne R. Flamme, age 86, died on Thursday, Aug 20, 2009 at the Sun Prairie Health Care Center.

Deputies were alerted by a customer at the Kwik Trip, 3123 S. Highway 51, that a man was sleeping in the back seat of a vehicle with a dog, and a handgun could be seen on a front seat.

The Lindquist family owns and operates Glenwood Orchard near Glenwood City. The orchard will offer retail sales for the first time this fall on site on weekends.

As the staff at the Pitchfork Music Festival, largely volunteers from the local music community, made the last-minute preparations for the final day of 2009 two hours before the doors opened Sunday morning, chief festival promoter Mike Reed reported that, despite the grousing of some concertgoers on this and other blogs, the cap on festival ...

July 15, 2009 3:41 p.m. The local strawberry season has ended. Strawberry fields are plucked clean.

The Parts Unlimited Off-Road Motorcycle and ATV Nationals reached its halfway point with the Parts Unlimited Cross-Country National at CMJ Raceway outside of Hixton, Wisconsin, and just as it began, Paul Whibley dominated the day aboard his JG Off-road/GEICO Powersports/Monster Energy Kawasaki KX450F.

Six people were hurt when a vehicle crashed and ended upside down in a creek. The Clark County Sheriff's Department says it happened about 6 p.m. Tuesday on Highway 'B' just east of Humbird.

Larry Fideler walks thru a strawberry field at his Kewaskum Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

The Farm Progress Hay Expo has only made its way to Wisconsin three times in the past 23 years.

A house is being considered a complete loss after a fire Tuesday afternoon. This is the release sent out by the Black River Falls Fire Department: At 3:20pm Tuesday afternoon, the Black River Falls Fire Department was called for a structure fire at 504 East Second Street in the Town of Brockway.

A fire kept firefighters busy for 5 A1 2 hours Tuesday. The Black River Falls Fire Department responded to East 2nd Street in the Town of Brockway It happened around 3pm.

Attendees at a previous Farm Progress Hay Expo watched a baler demonstration. This year's show, in Wisconsin for the first time in four years, will be Wednesday and Thursday near Hixton in Jackson County.

* Benjamin J. Ederer, 20, of 455 Grant St., Apt. 11, Stanley; no contest plea; worthless check charges; ordered to pay a fine, costs and restitution of $306. * Leif L. Polzin, 26, of W4975 Highway 10, Lot 6, Neillsville; no contest plea; worthless check charges; ordered to pay a fine, costs and restitution totaling $277.35. * Jeanne C. Belanger, ...

McCabe Construction of Eau Claire submitted the apparent low bid of $1,702,310 to reconstruct about two miles of Jackson County's Highway A between Black River Falls and Hixton, it was announced Wednesday.