What began as a 65th reunion for the New Glarus High School Class of 1961 became something larger Saturday, drawing alumni and spouses from across generations to trade stories of farm chores, school buses, dances, teachers and a New Glarus that looked very different from today.
Drivers have a lighter construction week ahead on Highway 69, but the next major round is now slated for Oct. 19, when milling and paving between Monroe and Monticello are expected to bring flagging delays over several workdays this month.
With Primrose now leaving for Sugar River EMS, Mount Pleasant is the last municipality still contracting with New Glarus Area EMS. Monday’s vote could decide whether the 51-year-old nonprofit enters 2027 with any municipal 911 coverage at all.
Southwest Wisconsin’s measles outbreak has grown to 238 confirmed cases, but Green County still has none. A September wastewater detection in Monroe remains the county’s only sign of the virus as officials continue watching through Oct. 18.
Green County supervisors will take up one of the county’s largest proposed capital projects Tuesday, with competing committee recommendations, five construction options and a tax impact that could approach $201 a year on a $300,000 home.
Applications are open through Oct. 16 for a bilingual leadership program serving Green and Lafayette counties, offering adults and high school seniors training in workplace leadership, entrepreneurship, communication and community engagement.
Green County business owners are being invited to step back from the day-to-day and think about what comes next, with a free Nov. 5 workshop focused on building value, protecting what they have created and planning ahead for change.
A warm October sun, traditional crafts, music, food and a strong turnout of families filled the Swiss Historical Village as Harvest Fest brought New Glarus history to life through demonstrations, volunteers and hands-on experiences.
A 1973 view up First Street captures New Glarus before today’s streetscape took shape, with Highway 39 traffic, giant American cars, tavern signs and the Swiss Church anchoring a downtown already balancing daily life with its Swiss identity.
Before professional haunted attractions, New Glarus organizations built their own scares from empty buildings, cardboard boxes, volunteers and imagination — raising money for the community while creating October memories that lasted for decades.
A 1957 aerial view captures much of downtown New Glarus before several familiar buildings disappeared or changed uses, while the railroad, swimming pool and old commercial blocks offer plenty of clues — and a few mysteries for readers to solve.
Long before combines rolled across fields of corn and soybeans, harvest around New Glarus meant wheat, barley, hand-cut grain, corn shocks, mill ponds and hard lessons about erosion — a story still visible in the shape of the countryside nearly two centuries later.
A new district release puts New Glarus High School among Wisconsin’s strongest ACT performers, while school board materials show where local students rank against nearby districts across elementary, middle and high school assessments.
Fresh state test results, student participation, enrollment and a proposed $15.6 million general fund budget are among the items awaiting the New Glarus School Board when it meets Monday night, with several new data reports on the agenda.
Nine area school districts are using Wisconsin School Board Appreciation Week to recognize the elected members who help guide local schools, including seven New Glarus board members whose work extends well beyond their public meetings.
After a week packed with Homecoming traditions and a big Friday night football win, New Glarus High School students traded jerseys and school colors for dresses, suits and one last celebration Saturday night at the annual Homecoming Dance.
New Glarus football hosts Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg for Senior Night after improving to 7-1 with a 56-14 win at Fennimore. Volleyball plays Dig Pink and a home match, conference cross country runs, and Sugar River soccer plus Monroe/New Glarus swimming complete the week.
The Raiders will enter the Division 3 postseason with a familiar opponent waiting just down Highway 69, a nine-year conference title streak intact and a bracket loaded with teams that have already tested Sugar River hard this fall.
Five New Glarus-Monticello girls finished inside the large-school division’s top 25, while Dylan Gardner and Benjamin Biank led a boys lineup that battled through a deep field Saturday at the Baertschi Invitational in Albany, Wisconsin.
A wet field and a road trip could not slow New Glarus on Friday night, as the Glarner Knights kept their late-season surge rolling in Fennimore with explosive offense, timely defense and another emphatic statement win in SWAL play. Photos by Becky Degenhardt.
A 2009 Albany High School graduate who worked in New Glarus and later repaired and refurbished computers and electronics, Whitehead is remembered by family and friends for his creativity, kindness, inventive spirit and sense of humor.
Paul Dorst, a 1977 New Glarus High School graduate, died Oct. 7 at age 67. He is remembered for his love of playing guitar and the Packers, and his family has asked that memorial gifts support a local food pantry or favorite charity.
Patrick H. Topp built a life around family, skilled work, fishing, hunting and Wisconsin sports, leaving those who knew him with memories of a kind spirit, quiet strength and a willingness to help whenever someone needed it the most.
Remembered for a life rooted in family, work and farming, Judell “Judy” Wilhelmson of Monroe spent many years at Oaktron and alongside her husband on their Town of Primrose farm, while raising a family whose generations survive her.
