By Chris SpanglerHundreds of classic cars, trucks and tractors were placed on exhibit Monday in Fort Atkinson’s Jones Park, 600 Janesville Ave. The event, titled “Fort Atkinson Cruise Night,” brought a variety of car enthusiasts to the park. Cars of all makes, models and years filling the park grounds, with overflow cars...
Category: Community
Fort library slates July activities
The Dwight Foster Public Library, 209 Merchants Ave, Fort Atkinson, has announced its July programming and events. Summer reading programA summer reading program continues to be offered at the library through July 31. According to information released by the library, the program will offer separate reading challenges for babies and toddlers,...
Hoard Museum announces calf-naming, decorated cow cutout contest winners
The Hoard Historical Museum, Fort Atkinson, has announced the names of the winners of several contests held last month. “Dairy Day at the MOOseum,” an annual event which, in 2023, is in its ninth year, is designed to bring the community closer to its dairy farming history. The event was held...
Why the pause? What’s been happening at FAO?
Our readers may have noticed that FAO took a pause from publishing over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Our reporters were still busy gathering content which soon will be published. We paused as we underwent an exciting change: we migrated our news site to spiffy new online space. The new space provides...
Shade and a show: Ice Cream Social brings in Fort’s Fourth
By Kim McDarison With summertime temperatures reaching 90 degrees Tuesday, the Fort Atkinson 2023 Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social provided shade, a show, and, of course, as is a community Fourth of July tradition, free ice cream. The Harmony Cornet Band played pre-1900 arrangements from under a tent as event-goers...