Our new golden retriever, Fargo, has a tail-wagging enthusiasm for all things new. Which for a 12-week-old puppy, amounts to just about anything appearing before his nose. This includes Christmas tree ornaments, house plants, shoe laces – especially those attached...
I was in La Crosse for a meeting the other day when a driver ahead of me on 4th Street became upset with the pedestrian pace of the car in front of her. She darted right around him and darted left if front of him as quick as a fish swimming downstream. The drivers...
Snowflake Ski and Golf Club outside Westby is known much more for the former than the latter. Each winter, ski jumpers from all over the globe gather for a competition that draws hundreds of spectators. The ski jump structure and hill tower over the golf course. That...
Fishing often becomes more challenging in the dog days of summer in Driftless Area streams. The heat, and in some years shallow water depths, often make it necessary to hunt for the deeper holes and areas of streams where trees and other growth along the stream...
These are the options for competitors at the 89th Annual Snowflake Ski Jumping Tournament to be held near Westby on February 3 – 4. The tournament will attract some of the best jumpers in the world to this 118-meter hill nestled in Timber Coulee. And given the...