Representatives from two veterans organizations met Saturday at Evergreen Cemetery to present the facility with new flags for its bell tower display, according to information released by members of the veterans groups. The organizations making the presentation included the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1879 and the American Legion Post...
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National Merit Scholarship Program recognizes Riedlinger as ‘Commended Student’
Oisin Riedlinger, a student at Fort Atkinson High School, has been named a “Commended Student” in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program, according to information released Tuesday by Fort Atkinson High School Principal Leigh Ann Scheuerell. According to the release, a letter of commendation “from the school and National Merit Scholarship...
Veterans of Foreign Wars ‘Buddy Poppy’ campaign planned in October
Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Edwin Frohmader Post 1879 and Auxiliary have announced that the annual “Buddy Poppy” campaign will soon be underway. According to information released by the post and auxiliary, the campaign will take place Friday, Oct. 11, and Saturday, Oct. 12, and will be...
Fort Atkinson Online, WhitewaterWise offices to close this weekend; reopen Monday
The offices of FortAtkinsonOnline.com and WhitewaterWise.com will be closed beginning Friday morning with plans to reopen Monday morning. If you would like to provide information for publication in either online news site, please send it to staff@fortatkinsononline.com. Thank you for your understanding and patience, and have a great weekend. Kim File photo.
Recognition of dignity, equal, inalienable rights of members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, peace in the world
"Minimal moral integrity requires that if we think something is wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it." -- political activist and author Noam Chomsky When Yitzhak Shamir died in 2012, his obituary in the British newspaper The...