Potosi News

The Potosi Branch of the Schreiner Memorial Library will host a family movie night at 8:45 p.m. on Friday, July 10, in the parking lot in front of the library.

* Brian J. Mess, 20, 259 1/2 Valeria St., was arrested on a charge of domestic assault to Samantha K. Miller, 18, same address.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which saw some of the fiercest Vietnam War protests in the nation, is shedding its long-standing antimilitary image by hiring a military historian and teaching a new course for military officers.

POTOSI, Wis. -- A Potosi man attempting to flee police on an ATV struck a tree Saturday morning.

POTOSI, Wis. -- A man selling books door-to-door decided he wanted to go for a swim Saturday in someone's swimming pool in Potosi, authorities said.

Mission Creative, a full service ad agency located in Dubuque, recently was the recipient of a Silver National ADDY Award for design and development of beer labels for the Potosi Brewery Company, located in Potosi, Wis.

LANCASTER, Wis. -- Grant County authorities are looking for help from local residents in finding out who is responsible for a rash of burglaries in Potosi and Waterloo Townships since the beginning of May.

Sometime between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, somebody entered a machine shed on Reynolds Ridge Road in Potosi Township and stole two Stihl chainsaws and a container of gasoline.

LANCASTER, Wis. -- The Grant County Planning and Zoning Committee recently clarified why it approved a conditional-use permit last August for a proposed sand pit along River Lane Road in Potosi Township.

A ferry across the Mississippi River has connected the community of Cassville, Wis., to points west for over 170 years.

Mary Alexander, of Potosi Elementary School, was tapped as a Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Teacher Fellow for 2009.

The Cassville car ferry will begin crossing the Mississippi River to Iowa on May 1, making weekend trips in May and then expanding to five days a week for the summer.

POTOSI, Wis. -- Grant County will host the 3rd Congressional District's Democratic Convention on Saturday, April 18, at the Holiday Gardens Convention Center in Potosi.

TOWN of POTOSI, Wis. - An 18-year-old Lancaster man was injured after a two-vehicle crash around 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the intersection of Old Potosi and Boice Creek roads.

If you are looking for a place to go watering tubing in southwest Wisconsin, then Grant River Tubin' Co.

POTOSI, Wis. -- Nearly a year-and-a-half after Potosi native Rhoni Reuter was gunned down in a Chicago-area condominium, police have apprehended a suspect.

Police arrested a Chicago woman Tuesday in homicide death of Potosi, Wis., native Rhoni Reuter.

A friend of Rhoni Reuter who was murdered in October 2007 expressed relief about Tuesday's news of an arrest in the case.

The Port of Potosi-sponsored inaugural Potosi Brewery Cave Party is noon Saturday, Feb.

A Grant County man was arrested for suspicion of drunken driving and fleeing sheriff's deputies after he was found asleep at the wheel of a truck early Saturday morning.