Monroe News

CHALET CHEESE COOPERATIVE: N4858 County Highway N, Monroe. Does not offer tours, but there is a small store where cheese can be purchased.

Three people were taken to hospitals after a four-vehicle crash west of Monroe Monday afternoon, according to the Green County Sheriff's Office.

This April 2013 photo shows the Chalet Cheese Co-op in Monroe, Wis., which bills itself as A'AmericaA's only Limburger cheese plant.A' Limburger is known as a foul-smelling cheese but the local production is a point of pride in the tranquil town of Monroe.

The new members of the nine-member board will be Mark Mayer, the agriculture agent for the Green County UW Extension, and Laverne Hays, a retired mechanical drafter.

The developers of a roof bolting machine, bovine dried colostrum powder and a speech therapy application are vying for Canada's most prestigious innovation awards, the 2013 Ernest C. Manning Award.

The developers of a roof bolting machine, bovine dried colostrum powder and a speech therapy application are vying for Canada's most prestigious innovation awards, the 2013 Ernest C. Manning Award.

The sign above the bar in Baumgartner's Cheese Store and Tavern warns visitors about the perils of sampling the $3.25 house specialty - a slab of Limburger cheese on rye bread slathered with onions and mustard.

The pastor of Wiota Lutheran Church released a statement late Monday on behalf of a Lafayette County family who lost three members in a triple homicide last weekend.