Highway 69 remains open between Monroe and New Glarus, but drivers should expect daytime flagging delays next week as crews widen shoulders south of Monticello and begin northbound milling and paving toward Cow Path Lane.
Long before dairy farming defined New Glarus, lead mines, wagon roads and mining towns had already reshaped southwestern Wisconsin — and the young Swiss colony depended on that economy in ways that are easy to overlook entirely today.
A cool, mostly dry stretch is shaping up for New Glarus Oktoberfest, with daytime highs climbing from the mid-60s Thursday and Friday to around 70 by the weekend. Evenings will be crisp, while Sunday may begin with more clouds overhead.
Sadie Mitchell won the girls race and New Glarus-Monticello placed five runners in the top 10 Saturday at the Wildcat Invitational in Belleville, while Dylan Gardner paced a solid boys varsity showing with a fourth-place finish overall.
Town of York officials will meet Sept. 22 to review whether the 2026 budget needs amendments and begin work on the 2027 spending plan ahead of a future public hearing and special town elector meeting, with public comment also on the agenda.
National 4-H Week will bring an Oct. 4 open house to Monroe while Green County families in New Glarus, Belleville and Monticello can explore local clubs, hands-on activities, community service and free first-year enrollment this fall.
For Generation X in New Glarus, Wisconsin’s march from 18 to 19 to 21 split classmates, reshaped college life and sent a rite of passage underground — leaving behind stories of fake IDs, basement parties and a changing definition of adulthood.
Chloe Benjamin’s new novel takes readers from Wisconsin to Antarctica, but amid its bigger questions of science, grief and time, a familiar local name quietly appears twice as part of the author’s broader affection for the state she loves.
New rainfall standards, high-resolution LiDAR and modern flood modeling could change how New Glarus understands water moving from its western hills through town and into the Little Sugar River corridor — and what that may mean over the next 20 years.
After graduating from New Glarus High School in 1983, Watkins devoted nearly four decades to nursing and administration at the William S. Middleton VA Memorial Hospital, while finding her greatest joys in family, faith and her grandchildren.
Wisconsin voters will decide Nov. 3 whether governors should be barred from using the partial veto to create or increase a tax or fee. A yes vote adds the restriction to the state constitution; a no vote keeps current rules in place.
From dancing to the Roger Bright Band to decades as a church organist, medical assistant and community volunteer, Beverly Lien carried music, faith and service through a life rooted in Blanchardville, New Glarus and across Green County.
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