A powerful performance sets the stage for Young Auditorium’s month-long BIG READ collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Join us on Wednesday, April 7th at 7 p.m. as ‘Literature To Life’ presents a virtual performance of dramatic staged readings from this year’s BIG READ novel, “The Latehomecomer.”...
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Hoard Historical Museum announces virtual art show
The Hoard Historical Museum in Fort Atkinson will host its annual Mary Hoard Art Show in a virtual format this year. “Due to ongoing concerns with COVID-19, our annual art show will be held online,” said Merrilee Lee, museum director. The art show will be viewable through the Hoard Historical Museum’s Facebook...
Whitewater Arts Alliance kicks off 2021 public art project
The Whitewater Arts Alliance will again this year be holding a public art project. The 2021 public art project, entitled: “Whitewater’s Heroes of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” will be running on a slightly different timeframe this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers noted in a recent press release. Those participating...
Fort resident is $30,000 Publishers Clearing House winner
Editor's note: this story has been updated. By Kim McDarison "I’m just flabbergasted!" said Fort Atkinson resident Paul Casey as he stood Friday in the doorway of his apartment building on the city’s northeast side. It was 11:30 a.m. and he’d just learned that he was the winner of $30,000....
Fort compost site, brush pickup starting in April
By Chris Spangler Contributor As spring yard cleanup gets under way in Fort Atkinson, the city soon will be opening the compost site and scheduling curbside brush pickup. Located behind Memorial Park on the city’s southeast side, the compost site will reopen Saturday, April 3. Hours are from 8 a.m....