April 2021

Michael James Mott, age 62, passed away on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, at the University of California San Diego Medical Center from complications of pancreatic cancer. Mike was born September 16, 1958, in Madison, WI, and the first born of four children to Gary and Margaret (Peggy) Mott.

Pvt. Kenneth Halverson, Fort Meade, Maryland, is home on a 15-day furlough.
His parents have received word that Pfc. Neal Marty, who has been in the Pacific for some time, is on board ship and expects to return home in a few weeks.
Allen Gilden, son of Mr. And Mrs. Ernest Gilden, Mt. Vernon, has enlisted in the Corps of Military Police Service of the regular Army for three years, to serve in the European theater of operations. He had been employed at Waukesha.

The week of April 12, 2021, has designated as Wisconsin Tornado Awareness Week. Since 2012, the statewide drill has included an Emergency Alert System (EAS) live code test, triggered by the National Weather Service and relayed to NOAA Weather Radios and Wisconsin broadcast television and radio stations. This year, and from now on, the live code test will not be used during a test. This is the alert tones that you hear on your weather radio, radio and television just before a weather warning is issued.

On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, at approximately 6:12 a.m., the Green County Sheriff’s Office was notified of a one-vehicle rollover crash along STH 59, approximately .1 mile east of Greenbush Road, just northeast of the City of Monroe. Deputies, along with Monroe Rural Fire Department and Green County EMS, were dispatched to the scene.