Monticello News

Local communities are gathering in New Glarus on Monday night to talk about combining school districts.

John N. Short has been named the next dean and chief executive officer at the University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac, effective July 1. Short, 61, is currently the dean of the school of humanities and social sciences at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.

Wisconsin spent more than $10 billion in 2008-09 to educate 861,000 public school students.

I can tell by the number of car-deer crashes in my daily Green County Sheriff's Department log.

WESTON -- Dr. Janet Gilbert, a family medicine specialist, has joined the Ministry Medical Group Weston Clinic on the campus of the Weston Regional Medical Center.

Sturgeon Bay merchants will donate 10 percent of their earnings today for breast cancer awareness.

Fall in Aggieland means the hustle and bustle of students returning to town, the roar of the crowd at Kyle Field and merlot in the museum.

Some people eat and sleep bicycling. In Brodhead, the sleep part is easy. Earth Rider is a boutique hotel whose five rooms are named for the five-time winners of the Tour de France and are decorated with a bike theme that extends to touches such as a chair made from bike rims and a desk with bike gears enclosed in its glass top.

The George W. Bush Presidential Library center is hosting an array of diverse educational events and programs beginning this fall.

If you find yourself on Highway 69 in Wisconsin, heading north out of Monticello watch on the west side of the road.