Category: Opinion

Editor's note: the following is a letter to the editor from the Jefferson County Drug Free Coalition.  On May 18, 2021, the City Council of the City of Jefferson voted to allow gas stations to sell liquor in addition to beer. Many gas stations in the City of Jefferson currently...

Part of the human condition is that an occasional bad day is to be expected. We might not like it, but when it happens, there it is.  Too often we hear, “LIVE WITH IT!”  I’m sure my readers will agree that some bad days are impossible to live with.Take, for...

By State Rep. Don Vruwink Growing up on a dairy farm and milking cows every day gave me an appreciation for everything that is dairy. During my teenage and college years, I helped my uncle, grandfather, and parents milk cows on their farms.In those days, milk cans were stored in...

We were so saddened by the passing of half of the area’s “flower-power couple.”  Sandra L. Anderson died Wednesday, May 26, at her Whitewater home. She was 79 years old.A Jefferson Junction native, Sandra Raithel graduated from Fort Atkinson High School and later earned her licensed practical nursing degree at...

This Monday, America will remember the men and women who have died in our nation’s service. At Fort Atkinson’s Evergreen Cemetery, the words of Gen. John A. Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, will be read, proclaiming the first Memorial Day in 1868.“We should guard their...