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Town Of Blanchard Regular Board Meeting
Monday, Jan. 5, 2025 – 7:00p.m.207 Pine St., Blanchardville, WI Agenda for Board Meeting Lisa Sikora, Clerk1-1-1c-L-WNAXLP
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Pecatonica Area Elementary Basketball teams
3, 4th Grade GirlsFront: Mirielle Schwery, Josie Syse, Brianne Kuhl, Rylinn Kumor, Coach Brandon Halverson. Back: Blayke Halverson, Bevynn Christianson, Raygen Rhoades, Kalie Cockroft. Missing…
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Lund honored with DAISY Award
FENNIMORE, Wis – Lindsey Lund, a recent nursing graduate of Southwest Wisconsin Technical College, was honored with the prestigious DAISY Award during the…
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Countryside News
by Jerry Davis Now what? The poinsettia, best pronounced poyn-seh-tee-ah, is a perennial plant and can be carried over to another Christmas, but…



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Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department Activity
December 236:35 p.m. A deputy responded to N. State Street, Village of Argyle for a 911 misdial. December 242:29 a.m. A Deputy responded to E. Milwaukee Street, Village of Argyle…
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Tech Help Blanchardville Public Library will host a Tech Help day on Monday Jan. 5, 2-4 p.m. Bring your devices (laptops, phones, tablets etc), passwords and questions. We will have…
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Woodford State Bank Donates $5,000 for Badger Park Renovations in Shullsburg
Pictured from left to right: Christina Benson, Woodford State Bank; Tyson Morrissey, Executive Director, Advance Shullsburg; and Janelle Schumacher, City Clerk/Treasurer, City of Shullsburg. Woodford State Bank is proud to…
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Woodford State Bank Supports Community Play with $10,000 Donation for New Park Equipment
Pictured left to right: Maverick Muhlstein of Woodford State Bank, Candi Schmid of Woodford State Bank, Ashley Bredeson, Kayla Nikula, and Janelle Ritschard. Woodford State Bank announces a $10,000 donation…
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Four time champions of Pecatonica Alumni Basketball
The first place Pecatonica Alumni basketball tournament champs, Classes of 2017-18, defeated the classes of 2004 and under, 38-37 winning for the fourth time in the last four years. Team…
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Pec seniors hone speaking, research skills through English project
Students in Pecatonica teacher Madeline Bartels’ senior English class recently completed an “Ed Talks” unit that combined skills in research, writing and public speaking. Pictured here are the students who…
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Police asks for less hours or more pay, Main Street meeting Jan. 14, development of TID lands addressed
By Kayla Barnes Blanchardville’s Chief of Police asked the Public Safety Committee at the Committees as a Whole meeting on Monday, Dec. 22, to consider decreasing his hours or increasing…
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Year-in-Review
January-June 2025 January 2 Pulling a very heavily loaded U-Haul trailer that was donated by Rick Frederickson, I (Rainelde Raymond) was on my way. My vehicle was headed south towards…
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1st day Pec/Argyle wrestling from Mid-States
Pecatonica/Argyle 113 Champ. Rd of 64 Layton Gruenenfelder (6-3) Fr., PEAR received a bye, Cons. Rd of 16 Layton Gruenenfelder (6-3) Fr., PEAR received a bye, Champ. Rd of 32…
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Valley Leader’s Church News
New Hope Lutheran Church Blanchardville and Hollandale Churches of the ELCA.; Office Phone: 608-523-4239;Newhopeoffice@tds.netPastor Chris StrohmSaturday, Jan. 48:30 a.m. in Blanchardville10:30 a.m. in Holandale St. John’s Church, South Wayne, Rev.…



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CORRECTION
In the December 28 edition of the Pecatonica Valley Leader, in the article about the Pecatonica Area School Board, the $400 donation given…
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Green County Sheriff’s Department Activity
December 2312:49 p.m. Deputies responded to a report of a single vehicle crash in the N8700 block of Badger Road, in the Town…
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College News
Coe College’s Fall 2025 Dean’s List CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Coe College is recognizing its highest performing students as members of the Dean’s…
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A/P advances to title game at Marshall invite
Kylie Butler and Brooke Wellnitz combined for 45 points to lead Argyle/ Pecatonica to a 56-53 win over a good Laconia team at…
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Carol J. Lancaster
Carol J. Lancaster, age 83, of Argyle, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, September 22, 2025, at her home. She was born April 10, 1942,…
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Thomas J. “Tom” Ellefson
Thomas J. “Tom” Ellefson, age 73, of rural Darlington, WI, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, September 14, 2025, at Lafayette Hospital and Clinics…
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Margaret Ann (Bigger) Hardyman
Margaret Ann (Bigger) Hardyman, age 86, of rural Darlington, passed away Sunday, September 21, 2025, in Mineral Point. She was born on January 12,…
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Vikings trim Black Hawk in SRE test
Two solid sets and one that needed some tune-up gave the Pecatonica volleyball team a sweep of Black Hawk in a Six Rivers…
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Ryan Zimpel Memorial Night Meethighlights A/P XC run
Dodgeville-Mineral Point senior Johnny Robinson toured the cross country course at Boscobel’s Kronshage Park in 15:57 to place runner-up out of 155 runners…
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Weather ends P/A battle with WSS in Six Rivers
While the final score read 28-0 in Wauzeka/Steuben/Seneca’s favor over Pecatonica Friday the real winner was the weather. That is because the game…



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Orioles shake off early set loss to take SRE win over Pecatonica
It was an incredible night of volleyball between winning Six Rivers East conference leader Argyle and challenger Pecatonica. Scores Thursday were a nailbiting…
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100 Years of Pecatonica Football
From 1963 to 1970, Blanchardville played 11-man football in the State Line League. The teams were Blanchardville, Argyle, Brodhead, South Wayne, New Glarus,…
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Pecatonica Homecoming article with a musical twist
There’s 55 song titles in this article. It only took me 10 minutes to write. (It took longer to write down the song…
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When the morning fog lifted, everything had disappeared
To look at Darlington’s quiet and shady Veterans Park this morning you would never know that roughly 400 people occupied the park this…
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Back-to-back programs at Blanchardville Public Library with same author
he Blanchardville Public Library will hold back-to-back programs by author Michael Cooney on Thursday, Oct 9th, 2025. Funding was provided by the OPwa. Come…
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Friends of McKellar Park Launch Capital Campaign for New Bathhouse and Shelter
The Friends of McKellar Park, Inc. (FOMP) have launched a capital campaign to raise funds for a planned bathhouse and shelter building at…
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Short meeting held for supervisors
The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors held their regular board meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 16 where only three items on the agenda made…
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New Glarus Caregiver Announces Run for Wisconsin State Senate
lanked by working families, former New Glarus Family childcare provider Corrine Hendrickson launched her campaign for Wisconsin State Senate Wednesday, September 17th. Due to…
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Extra duty stipends discussed
The Argyle School Board approved extra duty stipends along with approving the retirement of District Administrator Dr. Randy Refsland effective June 20, 2026. Last…
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Board approves help for website, student enrollment down
The Pecatonica Area School Board met on Monday, Sept. 15 and discussed and approved communication support for the district’s website and social media…





