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(2008/07/03)
At the age of 17, Nick Midtlien of Chaseburg never dreamed he’d be heading to the National High School Rodeo Championship in New Mexico on July 20-26, but after a banner showing at the Wisconsin High School Rodeo Finals in Richland Center two weeks ago, he can stop wishing and start preparing to represent the state in both the bull riding and bareback riding competitions.
(2008/07/03)
Coon Valley resident Sonja Pederson blasted the Coon Valley Board, during public discussion of the village board’s June monthly meeting, for publicly reading resident Jean Sims letter, in what she believed was a poor display of public leadership and an outright act to ridicule a community resident. Pederson asked the board why they felt the need to publicly read the letter, instead of contacting Sims directly and discussing her immediate village board concerns.
(2008/07/03)
Rob and Kari Anderson of rural Westby will be hosting the annual Vernon County Holstein Twi-light Meeting on Friday, July 11. The Andersons reside on a century-old farm at S1415 Lovaas Ridge Road with their three children, 8-year-old Lucas, 6-year-old Karly and 14-month-old Link.
(2008/06/30)
Businesses in and around the village of Coon Valley are in the process of re-forming a business association, which has been inactive for 10 years. The thought of revitalizing the business association was sparked during conversations by members of Coon Valley Farmer’s Telephone as they prepared to hold a second annual customer appreciation picnic and wanted to expand the successful event to incorporate all Coon Valley area businesses, not just the phone company, that initially held the event in 2007 to honor 100 years of business in Coon Valley.
(2008/06/30)
Legally his name is Soterios Lallas, but to students and staff in the Westby Area School District he’s “Ak” or the singing birthday banshee to people in the school lunchroom. After 32 years as an educator, Ak Lallas disconnected his Smart Board, and hung up his mouse when he retired at the end of the 2007-08 school years.
(2008/06/30)
A Sparta man pleaded guilty, Tuesday, in Vernon County Circuit Court to felony counts of being party to armed robbery and burglary and was sentenced to four years in prison.
(2008/06/22)
For the second time in less than a year Vernon County has been declared a disaster area after being ravaged by storms, which produced major flooding.
(2008/06/22)
Westby Area School District Food Supervisor Marilyn Volden resigned her position effective when her district contract expires on June 30, 2008, sighting difficulties involved with serving two different school districts.
(2008/06/22)
Come hell or high water the Coon Creek Festival event committees decided to forge forward with the annual event scheduled for June 20-22. Committee members met on Wednesday, June 11 to determine the status of the festival, due to severe flooding in the park as a result of an intense weather system which devastated many communities in Vernon County on June 7 and 8.
(2008/06/16)
Hell may have no fury, but Mother Nature sure does after she ravaged Vernon County, in Southwestern Wisconsin, with a second round of devastating floods in less than 10 months.
(2008/06/16)
The village of Coon Valley has been preparing for the annual Coon Creek Festival for months and God willing and the creek doesn’t rise again, the community of 700 will be holding the fun-filled weekend of festivities on June 21st and 22nd.
(2008/06/16)
At the age of 94, Elva Thomas was definitely in the pink after her loving family delivered 94 pink roses to her at Norseland Nursing Home in Westby for her birthday on May 30. Thomas was especially grateful to be able to stop and smell her huge bouquet of roses after doctors informed her family only weeks earlier that the beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother had only days to live after suffering a heart attack on April 18.
(2008/06/10)
Pastor Lindell Quam and his wife LaVonne are busy trying to pack 36 years of memories into cardboard boxes after he accepted a pastoral position at Elin Lutheran Church in Osakis, MN.
(2008/06/10)
Recently, Westby Times reporter Dorothy Jasperson and DNR Warden Shawna Stringham were honored for contributions they have made in their communities during awards ceremonies in Madison.
(2008/06/10)
Former Coon Valley Village Board trustee Amy Stakston blasted the actions of some of the current board trustees for their public response to a letter the village received and shared with the public at the May village board monthly meeting. Stakston was vocal in her response to the board for what she deemed an unprofessional response to a letter submitted to Monte Nelson and board members, by Coon Valley resident Jean Sims.
(2008/06/04)
Pastor Lindell Quam and his wife LaVonne are busy trying to pack 36 years of memories into cardboard boxes after he accepted a pastoral position at Elin Lutheran Church in Osakis, MN.
(2008/05/30)
“Freedom Isn’t Free”, that was the message which was sent out by all participants at the annual Coon Valley Memorial Day program on Monday, May 26, a day to remember all the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice so everyone they left behind could enjoy and cherish the freedoms we have today.
(2008/05/30)
As the 2007-08 school year is coming to a close, valedictorian Tanya Larsen and salutatorian Kelsey Gander are looking forward to the future.
(2008/05/30)
The May 20 Westby City Council meeting was anything but typical when residents living on the south end of the city, near South Street, packed into the room to bark their complaints over a resident with four dogs that has become a neighborhood nuisance and raised concerns over public safety.
(2008/05/22)
The stars were shining down on Westby last weekend with near perfect weather, large crowds and food, fun, music, and festivities galore during the 40th annual Westby Syttende Mai, May 16-18.
(2008/05/22)
Eddie and Jeanne Fredrick of Viroqua, along with longtime friends, Linda and Amy Erickson, had made their maiden carriage voyage to Westby with a new surrey and a pair of Norwegian Fjord draft horses, to participate in the 40th annual Westby Syttende Mai parade on Sunday, May 19 when tragedy struck at 12:45 p.m.
(2008/05/22)
The Westby Area Board of Education voted in March to move forward with a plan to offer surround care for children age four to 4th grade as a way of increasing their enrollment through the implementation of a child-care program for parents struggling with ways to get their school-age children enrolled in the school districtwide 4K early childhood program to the half-day classroom sessions when they work out of town.
(2008/05/19)
Owen Bekkum lives in Madison, but in his heart, Westby will always be home. Bekkum will be returning home in style on May 16-18, when he makes his appearance as the 2008 Westby Syttende Mai Parade Marshal.
(2008/05/19)
Westby will host its 40th annual Syttende Mai celebration this weekend.
(2008/05/19)
The new kid on the block for the Westby City Council, Lyle Lund, wasn’t feeling very amiable during his second regular monthly meeting held on May 6 since being elected to the position in April. Lund spent a good deal of time shaking his head in disappointment when the majority of council members approved agenda items he turned down feeling the items required further discussion before approving.
(2008/05/12)
Residents in the village of Coon Valley are joining together for the sake of two families residing in the community of 713, who are both dealing with the realities of living with and dying from cancer.
(2008/05/12)
With Mother’s Day this Sunday, Barbara (Knight) Murphy has had even more to be grateful for than most after the son she gave up for adoption years earlier located his birth mother living in Westby and the two of them developed a bond which was broken for over five decades, but is now on the mend.
(2008/05/12)
On Sunday, May 4, the Westby Police Department was dispatched to Davidson Park for reported vandalism to the restroom and shelter house facilities along with the park’s scenic historic rocks. Upon arrival Officer Matt White found the lock on the men’s restroom door was broken, the door had been kicked in and feces smeared around the facilities.
(2008/05/12)
Two Vernon County residents are facing federal charges of conspiring to distribute cocaine and distributing cocaine.
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