Join Melinda Myers to discover easy to grow, favorite plants guaranteed to give your Wisconsin garden a boost. Everything from bulbs to perennials, flowers, edibles, and trees combine to create a flourishing Wisconsin garden. Plus, plant combinations to attract pollinators, provide season long color, and winter interest for you to...
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Enbridge, DNR say impacts ‘limited’ after pipeline leak; monitoring will continue
By Kim McDarison Monitoring efforts remain in place at the site of a 2019 chemical leak emanating from an Enbridge Energy pipeline on Blackhawk Island Road. A letter sent to Enbridge Energy from Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hydrogeologist Caroline Rice on Wednesday, March 31, noted that the department’s...
Welcome to our new advertiser: Wisconsin Makers Inc.
Fort Atkinson Online LLC would like to extend a warm welcome and heartfelt thank you to our new advertiser: Wisconsin Makers Inc., located at 200 East Clay Street in Whitewater. The new click-through ad is here, and can be found on our business directory located on our business page, found here.
Behind My Door: Take it all off!
By Sandra Bernhardt I feel I should begin this column with a sincere apology. (It’s the right thing to do.) Dear readers: I am so sorry that I chose a sneaky title. I’ll bet you hoped this column would be X-rated, didn’t you? Forgive me for disappointing you. I realize I...
‘Driftskippers’ give BASE kids snowmobile rides
On March 6, when the last of Fort Atkinson’s beautiful snowy winter was coming to an end, the Fort Driftskippers Snowmobile Club gave rides to BASE members at Haumererson’s Pond. The youngsters were very excited and enthusiastic about the opportunity to ride on a snowmobile. For many, this was their first...