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January 21: Years Ago… ‘Years Ago’ is a compilation of newsy tidbits as published in the Crawford County Independent & Kickapoo Scout on this week ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or sixty years ago. TEN YEARS AGO JANUARY 20, 2011 – An additional Community Development Block Grant of $2.5 million for the flood recovery effort in Gays Mills was approved by the Wisconsin Department of Commerce. Officials working with Gays Mills had lobbied the Wisconsin Department of Commerce for additional funding after a major grant for the flood recovery was significantly reduced from...

2020: Year in Review Part Three Crawford County Independent & Kickapoo Scout DRIFTLESS – 2020 was quite a year – one most will likely never forget, no matter how much they may want to. SEPTEMBER:Soldiers Grove Librarian Cele Wolf retired on August 31 after 28 years of service to the community. Taking her place will be Sarah DiPadova… BACK-TO-SCHOOL in 2020 was like no other year, in the midst of a global COVID-19 pandemic. Here, educational assistant Cortney Yonker took an elementary student’s temperature on the first day of scho...

School board rejects all-virtual in favor of hybrid model North Crawford NORTH CRAWFORD - The North Crawford School Board had students in full virtual instruction for two weeks following the Thanksgiving break. The decision was based on high case counts from community spread in the county, and the fear that if families held large in-person celebrations, there could be a post-holiday spike. It seems that county residents can breathe a cautious sigh of relief, as growth in new cases has seemed to slow in recent weeks. For this reason, the board voted to resum...