Cole Toennies isn't sure when he first realized he had a knack for returning punts.
Maybe it was in fourth grade, when he played running back and discovered he had a rare elusiveness. Perhaps it was when he played on Middleton’s JV team a few seasons back and shined in the return game.... + continue reading
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School Board Review Start of Year
MIDDLETON–The Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District Board of Education met for the first time since the start of the new school year and reviewed the successes and challenges while continuing to operate under COVID-19 safety protocols and staffing... + continue reading
CROSS PLAINS–Utility regulators last week approved construction of a new well and improvements to an existing one in Cross Plains at an estimated cost $3.303 million.
The Public Service Commission (PSC) estimated that water rates would need to increase by 67 percent, based on a number of... + continue reading
MIDDLETON–Plans are taking shape on how to offer unleaded aviation fuel at the Middleton Municipal Airport-Morey Field.
At last week’s Airport Commission meeting, Chairman John Hallick outlined a number of steps to be taken including:
• Inventory the aircraft based at the airport... + continue reading
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Cole Toennies isn't sure when he first realized he had a knack for returning punts.
Maybe it was in fourth grade, when he played running back and discovered he had a rare elusiveness. Perhaps it... + continue reading
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School Board Review Start of Year
MIDDLETON–The Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District Board of Education met for the first time since the start of the new school year and reviewed the... + continue reading
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MIDDLETON–Ryan Englebert had aspirations of becoming a NFL football player from the age of three, but a life-threatening car accident in 2003, when Englebert was 21 years old, stopped that... + continue reading
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CHICAGO, IL–Ann (Faherty) Peckham, age 95, passed away on Feb. 9, 2020. She was born on June 30, 1924, in Chicago, IL, to Roger and Eliza (Kilman) Faherty. On Aug. 28, 2021, three generations... + continue reading
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MIDDLETON–Mariann C. Miller, 80, of Middleton, passed away peacefully on Sept. 4, 2021, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, with her husband by her side after a brave battle with pancreatic... + continue reading
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When I was little, my parents used to stay up late with their friends, drinking wine and watching the fireflies zip across the dark fields below as they talked about very important, very grown up... + continue reading
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I was outside in the garden on Labor Day ripping multiple layers of landscape fabric from a garden at our new house when I her the cry of a lone cicada. Not the raucous and loud waning in and out... + continue reading
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A local man who hoped to avoid having his name listed in this newspaper’s court report, which usually runs near the back of the newspaper, has found his way onto the front page after being... + continue reading
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From the desk of Pamela Westby, director of the Middleton Public Library:
Preprinted income tax forms will no longer be available at Middleton Public Library in 2014. The late release of printed... + continue reading
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