Barneveld News

Where: 5607 County Road C, Spring Green, Wis. How far, how long: 375 miles, 61/4 hours.

Twenty-five years ago Monday, Wisconsin experienced its deadliest tornado ever. On June 8, 1984, a tornado rated F-5, with winds of more than 300 miles per hour, ripped through Barneveld, west of Madison.

The morning of June 8, 1984, proved what many believed about the village of Barneveld was a myth.

He is the son of Peter Ruggles and Janice Devine-Ruggles. The Marshfield Noon Rotary Club observed its 80th anniversary with a dinner program at RiverEdge on Monday night.

Today marks 25 years since a devastating tornado leveled Barneveld...destroying homes and business and killing nine people.

The tornado hit after midnight while many people were sleeping. 90% of the village was damaged or destroyed.

It was the early morning hours of June 8, 25 years ago, when the small Iowa County community of Barneveld was shocked out of its slumber with an F-5 tornado that leveled most of the town, killing nine people and injuring scores more.

When Randy Danz looks out the front window of his filling station, on the main drag through town, he sees customers gassing up their vehicles.

It's been 25 years since an F5 tornado destroyed the Village of Barneveld. Nine people were killed and 200 were injured when the storm hit at 12:47 a.m. on June 8, 1984.

MERRILL -- School Board members are visiting the communities of two finalists for the Merrill Area School District's superintendent position as they prepare to offer the job to one of them.

Described as one of the best openings ever, the first day of the outdoor Dane County Farmers'' Market on Saturday drew as many as 12,000 people, an unexpected surge that had many of the 100 vendors packing up early, their tables empty of produce, plants, baked goods and other homemade and locally grown products.

The way the economy's going, it's not often you hear a story of an expanding business.

* Tessa L. Arneson, 21, Barneveld, Wis., reported $555 missing, included $400 cash and a camera, from 4200 Dodge St.