Orfordville News

Casey Schmeling and Ryan Stace had three hits apiece, including Stace's solo home run, to lead the Tigers' 12-hit attack.

This Memorial Day weekend, no doubt, the death in Afghanistan of Cpl. Benjamin Neal will be on the minds of many.

The Parkview School Board hired an appraiser and mover Monday as the district prepares to close Newark Elementary and sell the property.

The defending Southeast Section champion Albion Tigers produced 21 hits Sunday in a 9-3 romp over McFarland in Home Talent baseball.

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Rucker joins three women who also have experience on municipal boards, including fellow village trustee and Republican candidate Beth Schmidt.

The U.S. Department of Defense says Spc. Benjamin Neal, 21, died April 25 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan from injuries he sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.

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Few of us are being asked to sacrifice much in today's war on terrorism being fought overseas.

The Rock County Sheriff's Office is advising motorists of delays related to funeral processions Tuesday morning for Cpl.

Before sitting down to my computer to write an editorial today reflecting on the death in Afghanistan of Orfordville's Benjamin H. Neal, words from the late columnist David Broder came to mind.

Flags at Wisconsin National Guard armories, air bases and other facilities across the state will fly at half-staff Tuesday in honor of U.S. Army Corporal Benjamin H. Neal of Orfordville, Wis., who lost his life while serving his country in Afghanistan.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy. Low: 34. Wind: East 5-10 Sunday: Partly cloudy to partly sunny.

You wouldn't have known it in Orfordville on Friday. Eckhardt of Little York, Ill., fit in the tight-knit community just as he has in dozens of small towns around the Midwest.

Hundreds of people lined the streets and rural roads of Rock County on Saturday morning to watch a procession of vehicles escorting the family of a deceased Orfordville soldier.

Corporal Benjamin Neal was killed last Wednesday when his unit was attacked in Afghanistan.

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A public visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday at Parkview High School, 106 W. Church St., Orfordville.

Take a drive to Hanover, an unincorporated hamlet six miles southwest of Janesville, and you'll feel like you've entered a time warp.

President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday night that he had signed an historic agreement between the U.S. and Afghanistan that would tie the two nations together for more 10 years and complete a drawdown of American troops by 2014.