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STANEK COLUMN: Let freedom ring and rumble

I love fireworks. It’s not Independence Day without them.

In our area, we’re very lucky to have an assortment of activities and fireworks displays. Reedsburg and La Valle are just a couple of local examples of places to see free fireworks…and grab some food while you’re at it.

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A View of the Valley July 3, 2025

This coming Friday is the 4th of July. Many of us will have the day off – maybe even a three-day weekend - and goodness knows we need it. More three-day weekends would make our lives more joyful because it would give us more goof off time.

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Letter: What a mess

Gripe, complain, obstruct, moral and ethical values, who needs them?  No Kings rallies laughable and hypocritical considering the past presidential four years of Green New steals, another money grab, do nothing bill adding trillions to the national debt without any foreseeable benefits.   Lest we forget, "secured borders "bringing 15 million plu

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Guest column: Why is America’s postal service struggling?


Bill Barth. (Submitted photo)

I have visited Benjamin Franklin’s grave at the Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love.

Old Ben must be spinning in it right now, his supply of brotherly love seriously tested.

The U.S. Postal Service he founded has become – let’s try to say this without profanity – a stumbling mess.

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Many Thoughts For Many Reasons

By Bob Charley
 
Our very dear friend, Elsie Kruse, our Spring Green poet, gave me a cute poem she just wrote titled…                                                                                                                                                                            
 
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Guest column: Thank legislators for supporting SB/194/AB190 and urge passage in State Assembly

Please join the newspapers of Wisconsin in thanking the Wisconsin State Senate for supporting transparency in government.

On May 15th, the Senate approved Senate Bill 194 without opposition, paving the way for the Assembly to consider this important piece of legislation.

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Letter: Rich can do more for poor

Dave Gorak’s letter about overpopulation is right on. Most of the world’s problems arise from humankind’s lack of population control: wars, pollution, starvation, shortages, disease, extinction of other species, etc., etc.

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Letter: Who is really behind Hamas?

On the Fox News program Sunday Morning Futures, while justifying the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities, Secretary of State Marco Rubio asserted, "Why does Hamas exist? Because of Iran."

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Letter: What’s in a fort’s name?

A couple weeks ago Trump spoke at Fort Bragg castigating the folks in Los Angeles who had been protesting his illegal mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. But it couldn’t really be Fort Bragg, could it?

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