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Sauk County Happy Hustlers celebrate with pizza and bowling


Sauk County 4-H Club, Happy Hustlers, was recently awarded a Celebrate your SMART Goal Successes Grant in the amount of $100 from the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation. The club celebrated 90 percent plus of their members completing record books for the 2021-22 4-H membership year. The club received the grant to do something fun to celebrate. The club voted for a pizza and bowling party at the Riviera bowling alley in Sauk City on March 19, 2023. There was a great turnout with all the club members present. Pictured, a photo of the group. Club members are from the Sauk Prairie, Plain, Spring Green and Lone Rock areas of Sauk County.

Sauk County 4-H Club, Happy Hustlers, was recently awarded a Celebrate your SMART Goal Successes Grant in the amount of $100 from the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation. The club celebrated 90 percent plus of their members completing record books for the 2021-22 4-H membership year. The club received the grant to do something fun to celebrate.

Black Earth American Legion honors Chaplains


The Black Earth American Legion Post awarded its Chaplains on Memorial Day. Commander Dennis J Wood had the post’s Chaplains Bill Rettenmund and Tom Bennett come before the group. Commander Wood presented both Chaplains with a token of appreciation and thanked them for their service to the post, its members, and Veterans during the past years. They were also recognized for their performance of duties at that day’s Memorial Day ceremonies. The pair, among other duties, lead opening and closing prayers at all Post meetings, meals, and conduct “Buddy Checks” on post members and veterans. Additionally, they are part of the post Honor Guard at veterans’ funeral services. Chaplain Rettenmund recently took part in an American Legion Chaplain training weekend. Commander Wood stated, “our post is very fortunate and appreciative to have these fine men representing our post.” Pictured, left to right, Tom Bennet, Bill Rettenmund, Dennis Wood.

The Black Earth American Legion Post awarded its Chaplains on Memorial Day. Commander Dennis J Wood had the post’s Chaplains Bill Rettenmund and Tom Bennett come before the group.

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Friends of Ruth Culver Library planning golf outing


Pictured, golfers lined up and ready for the shotgun scramble of the Friends of Ruth Culver Community Library Golf Outing.

The Friends of the Ruth Culver Community Library are excited to be hosting their 14th Annual Golf Outing, Silent Auction and Dinner on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at the Lake Wisconsin Country Club. All proceeds will be donated to the Ruth Culver Community Library in Prairie du Sac.

Sauk Prairie student graduates with nursing degree


Evelyn Sebastian.

Reedsburg Campus would like to recognize the Spring 2023 graduates of the Associate Degree Nursing (RN) program. Students completed sixty-six credits in a combination of settings to earn their degree including: classroom, online, nursing skills lab, nursing simulation lab and direct patient care in the clinical setting.

River Arts tickets going on sale

Tickets for River Arts Inc.’s 23-24 Season are on sale starting June 1st for members and June 23rd for the general public!  These live performances will be hosted in four different venues:

Wish John Wick a happy 97th


Feel free to send Mazomanie’s John Wick a birthday card! Here’s his latest update: “I will be 97—three years from 100—on June 11th. Each day I’m triking 7.3 miles, now 504 miles since January 1st.” You can mail those cards to 328 West Division Street, Mazomanie, 53560.

Feel free to send Mazomanie’s John Wick a birthday card! Here’s his latest update: “I will be 97—three years from 100—on June 11th. Each day I’m triking 7.3 miles, now 504 miles since January 1st.”

You can mail those cards to 328 West Division Street, Mazomanie, 53560.

Sauk County Seal-A-Smile program helps kids


Pictured, thanks to a partnership between area organizations, daily oral health charts are appearing in bathrooms across Sauk County. The charts, designed to help students build independence in brushing, flossing, and drinking water to support oral health, come with a dry erase marker and eraser so they may be reused weekly.

At Merrimac, Tower Rock, and Bridges Elementary, reusable tooth brushing charts are headed home for daily use thanks to a new partnership between the Sauk County Seal-A-Smile program, Baraboo Area United Fund, the Community Foundation of South Central Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Credit Union.

Research coordinator hired for Sauk Prairie childcare study and grant

For the last eighteen months, Sauk Prairie community members have worked to better understand the community’s childcare desert status.  A desert status involves not having enough licensed/registered child day care slots to adequately serve the number of children under the age of five in a geographic area; or, simply said, the demand for childcar

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