Poynette News

Question: Our daughter is in the fifth grade and seems to really stress out over homework assignments, especially math and science.

For many families, it is a tradition to purchase a Christmas tree on the weekend following the Thanksgiving holiday.

On Saturday, Oct. 17, Portage County Hunger & Poverty Partnership sponsored the 8th Annual Empty Bowls event at Stevens Point Area Senior High School.

A Columbus man faces nine years in prison after police said he repeatedly claimed to be someone else, causing police to issue traffic citations to the wrong person.

Normally I can take doughnuts or I can leave them. But in the fall, I'd much rather take them.

Students at Poynette High School are now a part of "Puma" pride. At the school's homecoming pep rally on Thursday, the new Puma mascot was unveiled.

The $18,720 that the village of Cambria will pay the Columbia County Sheriff's Office for six months of police protection barely covers costs and can't be considered revenue or profit, Sheriff Dennis Richards told the Columbia County Board's judiciary committee Wednesday.

A new lynx kitten will be coming to the McKenzie Center in Poynette, after a lynx had to be euthanized last weekend.

Poynette: The community of Poynette has rallied to bring two lynx kittens to the MacKenzie Wildlife Center.

Sept. 2, 2009 10:10 p.m. Fifteen young people in rural south-central Wisconsin, including some from Beaver Dam High School, made a game out of chasing down and beating small animals to death with bats and clubs, authorities said Wednesday.

The MacKenzie Environmental Education Center near here will again be home to two rare Canada lynx thanks to a fund raising effort spearheaded by the director of the Poynette Public Library and local school children Two Canada lynx kittens will make their public 'debut' on Wednesday, Sept.

The driver of a minivan killed in a two-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon in Columbia County has been identified as Katoe Maung, 38, Fort Wayne, Ind., authorities reported.

The driver of a minivan killed in a two-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon in Columbia County has been identified as Katoe Maung, 38, Fort Wayne, Ind., authorities reported.

On August 08, 2009, at 4:51 pm, the Columbia County Sheriffa s Office was notified of a two-vehicle crash on CTH J at the intersection of Lindsay Road in the Town of Lodi.

Two people were seriously injured Monday afternoon when a teenage driver struck a car broadside in the town of Windsor, the Dane County Sheriff's Office said.

When Diane Tomlinson turns on her kitchen tap to fill a glass or a cooking pot, she takes a moment to appreciate the water flowing from the faucet.

Cars that were used during production of "Public Enemies" are making an appearance this weekend at the Iola Old Car Show.

Department of Natural Resources forestry technician Brooke Hushagen was honored recently with a 2009 Smokey Bear National Award by the U.S. Forest Service.