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The following appeared in The Rock County Star-Herald on April 7, 1949.
County Public Health Nurse Would Cost Residents Estimated 40 Cents Per Person
Maximum Annual Outlay For Program Would Be $5,000, According to Report
Cost of maintaining a public health nurse in Rock county will average 40...
Question: I junked two vehicles about 30 days ago and have only received one "Junk Certificate" in the mail. I contacted the DVS with the VIN # in question and they have no record of the vehicle being junked and told me to contact the repair shop. I contacted the repair shop that I mailed the...
Our sports reporter is leaving the Star Herald to move with his wife to Portland, Oregon.
It’s a beautiful part of the country where they met each other and where their close friends live. And, he said, “We’d like to do some things while we’re still young and before we have children.”
He assured me...
It is not very often that legislators call me. I call them regularly, but total solar eclipses are more common than a legislator calling me.
About 20 years ago Sen. Jim Vickerman, a gentleman I really respected, called me about wolves, a subject that hardly ever comes up in the ag land zones of...
Summer-blooming spireas have pretty much finished their early bloom cycle. A light shear now will remove those dead flower heads, and within a couple of weeks they will put on a new crop of foliage that will look as bright and fresh as they did in the spring. … Wish a hair cut would do that for me...
The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on March 31, 1949.
Monday Was Pay Day For National Guardsmen
They’re Not Phoney So Don’t Pass Up $2 Bills
Some over 1,000 two-dollar bills will be in circulation here during the next few days and weeks. And there’s nothing phoney about them either...
Mary keeps telling me that I need to stop getting so upset about things I can’t control and take some pleasure in the small things in life.
So, with that in mind and as I was making my morning toast, I was lucky enough to be at the end of a loaf a bread, and there was the crust.
The little things...
For decades this weekly space has featured personal reflections from our editorial staff.
The authors have shared various topics and experiences, and some have talked about cancer — either their own personal battles or those of family members.
I’ve read their words, sometimes through tears of joy...
The more you read about the history of wildlife in the North America the more you come to believe that almost every animal that you see today was at one time almost wiped off the planet by the settlers of a few hundred years ago.
Back in the mid-1850s as white settlers came into the area, they...
Question: What is the law with regard to insurance cards? I was told it must always be available in the vehicle and then I was told that if you do not have it, there is no fine if you produce it within three days. What exactly are the statutes with regard to having your driver's license on you...