If you plant it, they will come
Local Catholic parish provides fertile ground for Viroqua community garden
IT’S ONE OF those hot days in late May which could be a game changer for the spring and a forecast of things to come for the summer.
Joseph O'Brien |
KFP for sale
I WISH I could sit with each of you and tell you personally why it’s time for me to move on from editing and publishing this great newspaper. It’s this particular sense of closeness with my readers that I have valued so much over the past three-plus years of putting out the Kickapoo Free Press. Like no other writing job I’ve had, I get a sense of making a difference in our communities, of having an exchange, of being a part of your life.
Anne O'Connor |
Driving off into the sunset
STALWART VIROQUA SCHOOL bus driver Duane Hoff didn’t take retirement years ago when he could have. He even asked to continue beyond the end of school in June, the usual date for retirees, so he could finish with one of his favorite runs: the VAS fishing class.
Jerry McIntire |
Sarah Palin: Take note
SHE WAS PROBABLY taller than she appeared, this old woman in the baby blue sweater set and careful white curls. But she'd slipped into a slouch in her wheelchair. Behind her stood two much younger women, daughters perhaps, or granddaughters.
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What the Nanda?!?
LONG BEFORE MOVIES, TiVo and YouTube, Americans got their performance kicks (and culture) from traveling troupes of artists: circus, chautauqua, and vaudeville. The arrival of out-of-town artists—toting fanciful costumes, tricks, and flavors—sparked community-wide curiosity and glee. Yet now, in an age of media inundation, in which everything and nothing is new, do we still perk up when a show comes to town?
Shawn Lavoie |
Summer time is together time
WITH SUMMER COME the hot, lazy days, cool night thunderstorms, and open schedules that we who suffer each year through a real winter often dream about in the middle of January. We can all remember as children how we counted down the days until the end of school, shrieked with joy as the bell rang on the last day, and spent the next 90 days dreading the beginning of the next school year. As an adult it is my attitude, not my schedule (I am a high school teacher), that has changed.
Matthew Voz |
Breaking the mold
ALONG WITH WARMER weather often comes an increase in complaints about mold or musty odors. There are three elements needed for mold growth. The first is mold spores, and they’re easy to come by—there’s mold everywhere; it is a natural part of the environment.
David Romary |
The big picture
THIS IS THE time of year when the baby birds are out and about. The growth and changes happen fast. One day they are gaping, pleading, insistent little things, completely dependent, and a few months later they are ready to migrate with the adults. In between, they have a lot to learn and accomplish including growing to full size, growing in one set of feathers and then fully changing them for a second set, learning how to fly, sing, feed, all those little things.
Dan Peak |
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