Potosi News

Members of the Reynolds family of Potosi recall the day they lost their home to rushing water.

DICKEYVILLE, Wis. -- A bumpy stretch of U.S. 61/Wisconsin 35 between Dickeyville and Lancaster will receive a makeover in 2011.

POTOSI, Wis. - A one-vehicle crash sent two Lancaster, teenagers to the hospital Friday afternoon.

Summer wrapped up almost a month ago, but I march to a well-known Beach Boys album and to paraphrase it, "it's always summer to me." Autumn is my second-least favorite season, serving as a reminder of how close winter is.

Lorie Leibfried is Lancaster's new postmaster. She previously had been serving as officer-in-charge. Leibfried has been postmaster in Mineral Point since 2005, and was previously postmaster in Hazel Green.

Mary Kay Engelke, of Mineral Point, Wis., hangs out with friends at Kuepers III Tavern in Dickeyville, Wis.

It's five games into the season, and the Potosi Chieftains are still off to the races.

Royal Wade Kimes, a country singer, performed at the Potosi, Wis., home of Laurie Dressler, one of Kimes' biggest fans.

Royal Wade Kimes and Laurie Dressler chat Saturday before Kimes performed at Dressler's Potosi, Wis., home in front of about 90 people.

POTOSI, Wis. - Laurie Dressler asked permission to include some Royal Wade Kimes' song lyrics and a photo of him on the side of her new semi-truck's cab.

POTOSI, Wis. -- The Grant County Sheriff's Department is investigating the theft of a sign from a Potosi bar.

POTOSI, Wis. - Four people have been cited for disorderly conduct after Grant County Sheriff's deputies investigated a fight early Sunday at Yoder's Rockville Bar on U.S. 61 north of Potosi.

Jan Doser, of Potosi, Wis., adjusts a stained-glass display Sunday in a craft booth she was sharing with her sister at the Riverfest arts-and-crafts show in Washington Square in Dubuque.

POTOSI, Wis. - Four people were injured in a two-vehicle crash at 7 p.m. Friday north of Potosi.

Grant County Sheriff's Department deputies are investigating a littering complaint in the Ruff Lane-Dean Lane area southeast of Potosi.

Two people were injured, one critically, in a motorcycle crash Friday afternoon in Waterloo Township, west of Potosi.

The coming week, in events that get to your heart through your stomach. Tuesday, August 18 The latest History Sandwiched In brown-bag lunch program put on by the Wisconsin Historical Society features Bob Kann discussing his book A Recipe for Success: Lizzie Kander and Her Cookbook .

Justin Lanser 10, of Dubuque, competes in the beanbag tournament during the Potosi Fireman's Catfish Festival in Potosi, Wis., Saturday.

Justin Lanser 10, of Dubuque, competes in the beanbag tournament during the Potosi Fireman's Catfish Festival in Potosi, Wis., Saturday.

Justin Lanser 10, of Dubuque, competes in the beanbag tournament during the Potosi Fireman's Catfish Festival in Potosi, Wis., Saturday.