Rosendale News

School board seats will be up for grabs during the spring election in four area school districts.

In regard to Jim Ostrom's article in The Reporter on Dec. 17, he refers to his grandfather's days, two generations back.

Bail has been set at $50,000 for a 26-year-old Pewaukee man accused of attempting to kill his former boyfriend by crashing their vehicle in Fond du Lac County.

Classes resume Monday, Jan. 4, for Rosendale-Brandon School District students. Where in Wisconsin is Jessica Doyle? - On Dec.

Sam Moon has been named a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

FISH CREEK - It is almost beyond comprehension the impact that the huge Rosendale Dairy proposal will have on the community and environment.

Three School Board member positions held by Roseann Riedeman, who represents the Brandon area, and Elizabeth Crook and Ross Tarnow, who represent the Rosendale area, expire next year.

For residents in the county looking for change in local government, there's still time to run in the April 6 election.

An environmental group says laws to protect the environment are lagging so far behind the times as to threaten the lives of Wisconsin residents, and the agency empowered to make a difference is shirking its duties.

When Rosendale Dairy's three partners - John Vosters, Todd Willer and I - were boys on Wisconsin dairy farms, we imagined little beyond waking early, milking, feeding and caring for cows.

The Laconia High School Concert and Symphonic Bands, under the direction of Mark Pieplow, will present a Holiday Concert at 7:30 p.m. today in the auditorium, 301 W. Division St., Rosendale.

In his 1962 travelogue, "Travels with Charley, In Search of America," John Steinbeck comments as he drives through the rural Wisconsin landscape that he was entirely "unprepared for the beauty of this region, for its variety of field and hill, forest lake." Fortunately, a drive through rural Wisconsin today looks much the same as it did when ...

Common sense dictates that if you propose doubling something, the potential upsides and downsides increase at the same level.

What gives a corporation the right to control our groundwater? It should not happen in Wisconsin.

A Fond du Lac County dairy farm wants to become the largest dairy operation in the state, but the Department of Natural Resources must approve a key wastewater permit.

A Rosendale dairy farm could double in size, if the DNR approves a key wastewater permit.

They may be dressed for attention but these protestors in cow costumes say their message about saving small farms is serious.

Interest in how the state's largest dairy farm operates drew a crowd of about 600 citizens to Royal Ridges in Ripon on Thursday afternoon.

"Band kids are good kids." That's from Tess Schwartz's point of view after seeing first one child, then another, through Fond du Lac High School band practices, concerts, instrument rentals and rides to and from school.

Hundreds of people attended a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources public hearing at Royal Ridges Thursday night to voice their opinions on the expansion of Rosendale Dairy from 4,000 cows to 8,000. They alternately praised the high character and advanced farm practices of the Rosendale Dairy owners or predicted dire consequences for the ...