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Correctional Officer Arrested Following External Investigation
IOWA COUNTY – The Iowa County Sheriff’s Office announces the arrest of former Correctional Officer Adam Rice, age 33, following an investigation into misconduct during his employment. Rice had been employed as a correctional officer with the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office for approximately four years. Concerns were initially raised by Iowa County team members who…
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Candidates for Pecatonica Area School Board answer questions
The Pecatonica Area School Board of Edcuation has three seats open and four candidates running a chance on the board. They are Marsha Crooks, Steve Acheson, Megan Leonard and Mark Hazlitt. The school district asked the following questions of those candidates. Here are their responses.Marsha Hermanson Crooks 1. Please share some background information about yourself.…
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WANTED: Lafayette County Fairest of the Fair, Junior Fairest of the Fair applicants
DARLINGTON – The 2026 Lafayette County Fairest of the Fair applications and Junior Fairest of the Fair applications are now available online. As the official ambassadors of the Lafayette County Fair, the Fairest of the Fair and Junior Fairest of the Fair, will represent all things fair during parades, public speaking events and each day…
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lowa County Sheriff’s Department Activity
March 30 11:07 p.m. The Iowa County Communications Center received a request for mutual aid from Blanchardville Fire Department regarding a brush fire in the 2500 block of Hill Lane in Green County. The Hollandale Fire Department responded to the location. The fire was extinguished and no injuries were reported.
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Artificial Intelligence causing big problems
On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in New Mexico found that “Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms.” Meta was fined $375 million. The very next day on March 25, a jury in Los Angeles, California, found “Meta (owner of Instagram and…
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Follow the wind energy plans
Dear Editor, How many people are aware of the infrasound caused by industrial wind turbines? Pattern Energy negates the issues of infrasound, along with shadow flicker, noise pollution and other health concerns. Please read this Substack article by Frank Jabonski that you can find at https://frankj47.substack.com/p/aproblem-with-wind-energy. Wisconsin has a problem and our PSC and Wind…
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Countryside News
The young-of-the-year plants, animals and mushrooms are often quite different in structure, sometimes color, from the older, later life forms. Ferns, with their elaborate fronds, aka compound leaves, are often coiled and sometimes coiled within coils. These coiled beginnings have their own names, too. Fiddlehead or crosier, crozier, too, or simply coiled frond or fiddlehead…
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After 25 years, Pec 1972 Classmates Syse & Johnson Continue Their Brewers Home Opener Tradition
In a ritual that began 25 years ago with the opening of American Family Field (then Miller Park) in 2001, native boyhood friends and 1972 Pec classmates Randy Syse (r) of Waukesha and Bruce Johnson (1) of Middleton and their spouses (not pictured) made their annual trek to attend the Milwaukee Brewers Home Opener on…
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Elections on all village, school, county boards
Argyle, Blanchardville, and Hollandale villages, algon with the Argyle and Pecatonica Area school district board’s of education and the county boards of Iowa, Green, and Lafayette will all have candidates on the April 7 ballot. The only contested race will be in the Pecatonica Area School Board but there will be plenty of new faces…
Saturday, June 27, 2026Leading the Pecatonica River Valley in CoverageArgyle | Blanchardville | Hollandale