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February 18: News from around the Driftless Area ‘News from Around the Driftless Area’ is a compilation showcasing the excellent work and interesting tidbits from the community journalists sprinkled throughout our area. VIROQUA –The NRCS and engineering teams working on the Watershed Study of Coon Creek and West Fork Kickapoo watersheds to help LaCrosse, Monroe and Vernon counties determine what to do with the five flood control dams that breached in the 2018 flood event are continuing to move forward.  At this time, the engineering team is refining the very complicate...

Barnes’ message is flood resilience and ag opportunities are priorities Monroe County RAINFALL MONITORS like these will be deployed in the Kickapoo and Little LaCrosse River water-sheds in Monroe County this spring. The devices have been purchased through a fundraising effort and donations from the community, and will allow almost real-time notifications in a flooding situation. MONROE COUNTY - Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes returned to a meeting of the Monroe County Climate Change Task Force on Wednesday, Feb. 3. This was almo...

January 7: 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 6, 2011 – Sheri Schwert dances with the angles during a performance of “Anything Goes’ at North Crawford Schools… Bids by the Fischl Construction Corporation to build new public works and EMS buildings in Gays Mills were approved by the village board at their regular meeting… North Crawford-Seneca’s wrestler Zach Miller finished 2-2 at the a...

Following a discussion in which almost 40 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Vernon County Land Conservation committee and staff members, and almost 20 interested citizens discussed recent manure-related fish kills in Vernon County, the Land Conservation Committee made a big decision. Land Conservation Committee member Rod Ofte moved, and Kelli Mitchell seconded, a motion to form a committee to collaborate with Monroe County on revisions and updates to both county’s manure storage ordinances. The motion passed unanimously at a Zoom meeting held Thursday, Dec. 10. Vernon County Co...

Counties to collaborate on update to manure storage ordinance Vernon and Monroe VERNON AND MONROE - Following a discussion in which almost 40 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Vernon County Land Conservation committee and staff members, and almost 20 interested citizens discussed recent manure-related fish kills in Vernon County, the Land Conservation Committee made a big decision. Vernon County Land Conservation Committee member Rod Ofte moved, and Kelli Mitchell seconded, a motion to form a committee to collaborate with Monroe County on revisions...