Mother Nature couldn’t have served up more perfect weather for the 10th annual Dairy Day at the MOOseum on Saturday.Sunshine, pleasant temperatures and an ever-so-slight breeze beckoned residents from throughout Jefferson County to Fort Atkinson’s Hoard Historical Museum.It’s just the right place for a June Dairy Month celebration, considering that...
Category: Opinion
Happy Father’s Day from and Fort Atkinson Online and WhitewaterWise
Editor’s note: Fort Atkinson Online and WhitewaterWise, with help from a poem by Ron “RadioRon” Stelse, wish our readers a happy Father’s Day. Fathers everywhere My dad was special just ask my mom he lost his leg fighting in ‘nam. ever hear of of being on time that...
Fort Atkinson Online and WhitewaterWise observe with our readers Flag Day
Editor’s note: A Flag Day poem by Ron “RadioRon” Stelse is offered in observance of the anniversary of the adoption of our American flag which occurred in 1777. Flag of Freedom A seed fell And turned into thought No one understood What they had caught. Was it a divider Making...
“Sufficiently ‘compelling reason’” offered against reciting pledge
Letter to the editor: “If there is a compelling reason why this Pledge of Allegiance request should be delayed or denied, then an elected official should state that reason.” So writes John Donohue at the close of his letter, “National Flag Day is a good day to begin including the...
National Flag Day is a good day to begin including Pledge of Allegiance at council meetings
Letter to the editor: I write on behalf of 154 city of Fort Atkinson residents, with that number growing and many who are veterans, who have signed a petition requesting that our city council make room in its meeting agenda for the Pledge of Allegiance. Now presently, the Pledge is...