As the world grows older and Wisconsin’s worker shortage deepens, New Glarus faces a defining question: Can new housing, senior living and major business investment help the village attract the younger workers and families it will need? Does it want to?
A grant from Only in Wisconsin Giving is helping New Glarus veterans stay connected, funding new Zoom equipment at the Legion Hall so members of three local veterans organizations can take part in meetings even when they cannot attend in person.
Saturday marks 181 years since the 1845 arrival traditionally recognized as New Glarus’ birthday — the end of an extraordinary four-month journey from Switzerland that survived storms, sickness, hunger, confusion and repeated moments when the plan nearly unraveled.
A grant from Only in Wisconsin Giving helped New Glarus students build five desktop computers this summer, giving Knight Crew members hands-on technical experience while adding more powerful equipment for CAD and design work in Tech Ed.
For generations, Wisconsin and Illinois have traded jokes, traffic complaints and football insults across the Cheese Curtain. Here are 10 Wisconsin habits and peculiarities most likely to make our neighbors to the south roll their eyes.
More than a year after federal environmental investigators descended on a Monticello food plant and assured residents the operation was not immigration-related, the investigation has ended with a criminal conviction, probation and a $237,500 fine.
The Sugar River Mat Club has moved Saturday’s silent auction, bags tournament and gun raffle to The Hop Garden in Belleville, where the Aug. 15 fundraiser will run from 1 to 4 p.m. and support wrestling programs in Belleville, New Glarus and Monticello.
New Glarus’ Wilhelm Tell Festival returns Aug. 21-23, two weekends before Labor Day this year, bringing the historic outdoor pageant, Art in the Park, lantern parade, Swiss music and annual library book sale together for a busy weekend.
The New Glarus School District will continue providing school supplies to students in 2026-27, a program Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Thayer says helps reduce family costs, promotes equity and is sustained largely through donations and reused materials.
A southwestern Wisconsin measles outbreak has grown from two confirmed cases Tuesday to 15, with six more considered probable. Most cases are in Iowa County, and state health officials say the majority involve people who were unvaccinated.
Green County supervisors heard the first of three presentations on the Highway Department’s future, approved a $1.2 million Pleasant View staffing contract and heard the county clerk outline plans to avoid another election-night reporting delay.
Founded with about 50 mail-order cheese packages in 1926, Colony Brands enters its second century as a billion-dollar, family-owned enterprise with deep roots in Green County’s cheesemaking culture and the Swiss settlement at New Glarus.
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