Regional

Fermentation Fest: Grassland Edition will be held Sept. 25-26 at Witwen Park and Campground near Sauk City.

The event is organized by Wormfarm Institute in Reedsburg.

Come autumn, woodbine, aka Virginia creeper, has a lot of development to complete. Its palmately compound leaves generally come apart and fall as leaflets before most other plants begin to show any hind to color. The fruits may follow, or hand on well into winter.

Sauk County’s next Clean Sweep is set from 8 a.m. to noon Sept. 25.

Collection will be taken at the old landfill, E8795 Evergreen Lane, Baraboo.

Sauk County is still in the “high” category regarding the spread of COVID-19.

The county is averaged 114 new cases in the latest seven-day period, or from Sept. 5-11, according to Sauk County Public Health.

The data has prompted department officials to encourage the public to wear masks, distance and get the vaccine.

Pokeweed isn’t the most familiar plant.

The names vary, as well as the spellings, of this native plant.  Poke salad, poke sallet, inkberry, scoke and pigeonberry are some.

Uses vary, too, from medicine, food, dye, ink, wine colorant and many sources call the plant’s parts poisonous.

Sauk County residents may attend a gathering centered around adoption and foster care.

“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” ~Mark Nepo

South Central DHI has released its list of best-performing cows through June.

The top Holstein by cheese yield came from Schyvincks Hillside Haven in Reedsburg. Chick produced 38,858 pounds of milk that tested at 4.6 percent and 4407 cheese yield.

A Baraboo man was taken into custody after the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office was called to investigate a scooter crash.

“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” ~Mark Nepo