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Sat
13
Feb

What to consider with new, renewed farm leases

2020 brought us into an unknown time of our lives and many worried about their financial budgets for the end of the year. This left many to reassess how this pandemic may affect their plans for 2021.

Sat
13
Feb

South Central DHI announces top cows through November

South Central DHI has released its list of the best-performing cows through November 2020.

The top Holstein came from Bells Udder Farm in Camp Douglas. O-2400 produced 44,667 pounds of milk that tested at 4.3 percent and 4809 cheese yield.

Sat
13
Feb

Sauk County shows signs of COVID recovery, but rate still considered ‘high’

Sauk County showed some improvements this week with COVID-19 cases, but the situation could be much better.

According to Sauk County Public Health, the county averaged 322 new cases per 100,000 people in the last two weeks. The trajectory appears to be shrinking, and Sauk County remains in the “high” caseload category.

Sat
13
Feb

Sauk County meetings for February

The following meetings are scheduled and will be held at the West Square Building in Baraboo unless otherwise noted.

The address is 505 Broadway.

Prospective attendees should be aware that meetings may be postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19 or lack of business.

Sat
13
Feb

Historical Perspective: A look back at the Yellow Thunder wedding


Chief Yellow Thunder hosted the wedding of his wife’s niece. (Sauk County Historical Society photo)

Mrs. Almira (Brown) Johnson was born in 1847 near Janesville, her family having moved there from Vermont in 1845. They again moved to a farm in New Buffalo, now Delton Township, in 1849. The farm was located about three miles from the 40 acres — east of Co. Tr. A — which had been awarded to Chief Yellow Thunder.

Sat
06
Feb

Sauk County Gardener: Winter Sowing

"Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl.  And the anticipation nurtures our dream." -  Barbara Winkler

Sun
31
Jan

Sauk County Gardener: Time to prune trees

“A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.” ~George William Curtis

Sun
31
Jan

Voters can get ID prior to spring election

The Spring Primary is weeks away and the DMV wants the public to know they can get an ID to vote.

IDs for voting are offered for free.

People can get a voting ID if they don’t have another form of identification such as a driver’s license, military ID or student ID. A federally recognized REAL ID card is not required to vote.

Sun
31
Jan

Naturally Speaking: How trees grow


The oldest wood in this oak tree is at the center of this slab. If the year-formed was written on each "ring" in the wood, the rings would have progressively more recent dates moving toward the outside. (Photo by Jerry Davis)

People and trees grow differently. We don’t have a growing point on the top of our head and we eventually stop growing.

Thu
28
Jan

Historical Perspective: Sauk County’s ancient past revealed


Seen here is an eagle’s eye view of the dig site in Freedom Township and the knifepoint discovered by Christiansen’s Archaeology class. (Sauk County Historical Society photo)

Five millennia ago, on a tall ridge in Freedom Township, a Native American flint knapper sat cross-legged, holding a stone, which he was striking with the nub of a deer antler. As he hit the rock at just the right angle, thin chips split from the mother stone and landed on the ground around him.

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