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DAVID WAHLBERG A cascade of coronavirus cases and cancellations washed over Wisconsin and the Madison area a year ago this week, upending life for everyone and ushering in a state of physical distancing, economic downturn and unprecedented deaths for which the end may be near but remains unclear. At the beginning of the second week of March last year, the state had reported only one case of COVID-19, a Dane County resident who tested positive more than a month earlier after returnin...

Yes, I understand how frustrating it was for you this past week. We had you trained on a daily basis to look for the COVID-19 numbers, published at the top of page one, on the right-hand side, and then suddenly poof! They weren’t there anymore. Where are the numbers? Many of you called asking, after flipping through the newspaper several times, searching but not finding. When Mesa County Health Department stopped sending its daily report at the end of February, The Daily Sentinel followed ...

You may not know much about an ancient Greek mathematician and inventor named Archimedes. But I bet you know the most famous thing he said. The king of Syracuse once asked Archimedes to investigate a possible fraud. The king had hired some artisans to make a crown out of an ingot of pure gold. When he received it, the king feared the goldsmiths had swindled him by substituting silver for some of the gold. Melting it down would have uncovered the truth, of course, but destroyed the crown in the ...

Lynchburg, Monacans get housing grant funds Lynchburg is receiving more than $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for affordable housing. The city will receive $718,593 through the department’s Community Development Block Grants program and $413,856 through the department’s HOME Investment Partnerships program. The CDBG program “provides annual grants on a formula basis to states, cities, and counties to develop viable urban communities by provid...

“It’s just the most amazing professional honor that you could imagine,” Lowe said. Friends, family and colleagues gathered for a brunch Wednesday to watch Lowe accept his award over Zoom in place of a large annual celebration that would’ve brought thousands of agents together. Auditorium full of people or not, the award was still an honor. “Nobody deserves it more than he does,” Lowe’s colleague Clayton Pilgrim said. Lowe specializes in agriculture and farmlan...

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1901 March 9, 1901-A ticket for the upcoming village election was placed in nomination by a class of people who have in mind the best interests of the entire community.   1911 March 8, 1911-Despite the fact there were few contests on hand, there were about 150 residents of the village present at the caucus. March 8, 1911-The town of Lincoln was organized at a meeting of the Itasca County Board. March 8, 1911-The initial number of The Iron Index newspaper will be issued at Marble. March 8, 19...

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A lot has happened since Gregg Palmer opened the Grand Junction location of Brown’s Shoe Fit Company, 425 Main St., in 1980. Retail outlets like Palmer’s have been the subject of much consternation amid the pandemic as well as the growth of the online marketplace. Over the past 41 years, the store has weathered many difficulties, received some facelifts, and Palmer entered politics and served as mayor for a period. Yet, the community still embraces him and the store, even after all of...

MY PARENTS live on the outskirts of Atlanta, and I am worried about them. Since the start of the pandemic, there has been a significant uptick in hate crimes against Asians in America. In the past few weeks, we’ve seen horrifying reports of Asian Americans being harassed and punched; an elderly man thrown to the ground and killed in San Francisco; another slashed in the face and left to bleed inside a New York City subway car; as well as countless videos of enraged people shouting at Asian...