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Walker plan to use mortgage settlement criticized

Wisconsin plans to use about $26 million of its $140 million share of a national mortgage settlement to help plug the state's budget hole — a move Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on Friday called "unconscionable."

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Benefit set to honor ‘amazing’ woman

On March 3 , a benefit will be held at the Onalaska American Legion for Kathy McKee — a longtime resident of West Salem and Onalaska who has devoted a large portion of her life to helping others but now needs help herself.

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Facilities group sees new middle school ahead

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Kindschy, Christiansen get WSBA awards

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WSHS grad gets national VFW teacher honor

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: WSHS grad gets national VFW teacher honor; Kelly (Morley) McDermott, a 1996 graduate of West Salem High School has been named the middle-school level 2012 Teacher of the Year by the national Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Feb 9 Facilities group sees new middle school ahead
Feb 9 Kindschy, Christiansen get WSBA awards
Feb 9 Bangor Fire Department gets new truck, thanks to grant
Feb 9 Group sends troop packages for Valentine’s Day
Feb 9 School open enrollment window opened wider
Feb 9 WSMS dominates at Mathcounts regional
Feb 9 News in brief

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2/14 girls basketball: Westby 73, Bangor 45

Senior Abby Midtlien connected on five 3-pointers and made three of them in the first quarter on her way to 19 points for the Norsemen, who are ranked seventh in Division 3 and have won 15 games in a row. Megan Rudie added 17 points for Westby.

Feb 14 2/14 boys basketball: Prairie du Chien 70, West Salem 46
Feb 11 WIAA wrestling notebook: Dawley’s ‘good day’ yields title
Feb 11 2/11 girls basketball: Richland Center 63, West Salem 34
Feb 10 2/10 girls basketball: West Salem 45, Viroqua 28
Feb 10 2/10 boys basketball: Bangor 51, Cashton 43
Feb 10 Prep girls gymnastics 2/9:
Feb 9 Prep boys basketball 2/9

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: SKOL: Sanitizing lip balm anyone?; The first hints of what was to come arrived as Gretchen and I were driving home from a recent meeting of the Holmen Area Historical Society. Dr. Jason Aldred had talked about the Spanish Flu that sickened some 103,000 Wisconsinites in 1918, killing 8,459 of them from the flu and related pneumonia. Nationally, 675,000 Americans died from flu from September to December 1918.

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: Benefit set to honor ‘amazing’ woman; On March 3 , a benefit will be held at the Onalaska American Legion for Kathy McKee — a longtime resident of West Salem and Onalaska who has devoted a large portion of her life to helping others but now needs help herself.