A Sauk County Sheriff’s Office squad sits outside the Law Enforcement Center in Baraboo. Sauk County will be part of the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over starting Aug. 20. (Photo by Heather Stanek)
Law enforcement agencies across Sauk County will be watching for impaired driving starting this weekend.
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over begins Aug. 20 and continues through Labor Day, Sept. 6. The effort includes the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Reedsburg, Baraboo, Lake Delton, and Sauk Prairie.
Here is the dirt of Virginia stickseed, a native plant that is becoming more obnoxious each year. If these biennial plants (usually) are not pulled, destroyed, dug out or otherwise destroyed, you are in for a clothes-picking autumn.
A horse in Monroe County has tested positive for a deadly illness, according to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
“We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The woolly alder aphid is now in season. If maple trees or alder shrubs are about, you’ve seen them, little tufts of cotton-like material seemly floating about, but they are winged insects that fly. They produce strands of waxy material from their abdomens, which has the liking of cotton or wool. These guys are sap-drawing aphids.
