A longtime Madison volunteer with deep ties to New Glarus, Holland helped preserve historic places, cultivated public gardens and native plantings, and filled the lives of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren with handmade treasures.
Homecoming brings 5-1 New Glarus football to the turf Friday against Southwestern/East Dubuque. Volleyball hosts Marshall on Tuesday, Sugar River boys soccer travels twice, cross country runs at Platteville and Monroe/New Glarus swim meets Lodi.
The annual fall migration is still unfolding over southern Wisconsin, where butterflies weighing about as much as a paper clip are traveling roughly 1,700 miles toward mountain forests in central Mexico — and some are still passing New Glarus.
From packed streets and packed tents to volunteers behind the scenes, Oktoberfest 2026 showed New Glarus at its welcoming best — with local businesses, organizers and police working long hours to keep the celebration moving safely. Photos by Becky Degenhardt.
A 1912 postcard looking north on 2nd Street shows a horse and buggy, one distant smokestack — and a streetcar New Glarus never had. Fifteen years later, the same intersection reveals how much of the real village had changed by then.
Kyle Larson’s No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team delivered its strongest Chase performance yet Sunday at Kansas, putting New Glarus native Jesse Saunders and the crew in an even stronger position with six races left in NASCAR’s title fight.
Highway 69 remains open, but drivers should expect more flagging delays next week as paving continues near sideroads and intersections between Monticello and New Glarus, with shoulder and guardrail work still ahead in early October.
Long before Swiss settlers arrived in 1845, people lived, worked and buried their dead across the hills around New Glarus. State archaeological records preserve traces of an older landscape — including a Woodland mound close to today's village.
Thousands of drivers pass the old Cold Springs Farm between New Glarus and Monroe without knowing a world-champion pacer lies buried there, a surviving link to the era when Green County horses raced among the nation's best in America.
As deer season gets underway across Wisconsin, chronic wasting disease remains a concern in Green County. The rules affect hunters directly, but the reason behind them is simple: limiting how easily infected deer can spread the disease.
A Mount Horeb High School graduate who farmed with his father before spending years in maintenance at the University Bookstore, Freitag was a devoted Badger and Packer fan who enjoyed fishing, coaching and watching his children compete.
A picture-perfect Saturday brought big crowds, friendly faces and a festive atmosphere to downtown New Glarus. Oktoberfest heads into its final day Sunday with cheese tasting, wagon rides, a petting zoo and two more rounds of live music.
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