17 April 2024

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Life in a Sanatorium

Life in a Sanatorium


Life in a Sanatorium ANNE TRAUTNER JOURNALIST Jim Westphal is a retired Kewaskum High School teacher. When covid hit in 2020 and people were quarantined at home, it made him think back to his childhood and the nine months he was quarantined in a sanatorium. In 1960, Westphal was a freshman at Jefferson High School in Jefferson. In those days, as Westphal recalls, one of the things

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When Autumn Comes

When Autumn Comes


| PUBLISHER LETTER | When Autumn Comes Dear Reader, There is an indescribable sadness in dying. Dying, while a solitary act, invites the many connections and networks of love a person has affected prior, to be a part of this final physical farewell. Every being dies. All living things animated by the spark of life eventually will be extinguished. Those who die through some earthly tragedy

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No More Wet Feet!

No More Wet Feet!


| FROM THE FOREST | No More Wet Feet! JACKIE SCHARFENBERG RETIRED DNR NATURALIST For many of us who walk the Tamarack Nature Trail around Mauthe Lake, we remember often getting wet, muddy feet as we tried to dodge water puddles found between the campground and the bridge over the Milwaukee River – East Branch. As of this spring, this is no longer the case! The trail in that section

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RURAL WRITES

RURAL WRITES


| RURAL WRITES | G.A. SCHEINOHA CONTRIBUTOR So far this time round, April hasn’t lived up its reputation as the cruelest month. That is, if you overlook the couple days of snow which blew in right after the holiday. Making the landscape round these parts appear more like it was closer to Christmas than Easter. While the temperatures have moderated to pleasant, sunny, absolutely gorgeous

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