May 2021

Helen Clara Wettach, age 96 of Monroe, previously Monticello, WI, passed away on May 23, 2021, at Monroe Hospice Home. She was born on June 17, 1924, in rural Argyle where the Yellowstone Lake is today, as the eldest of three children. Her parents were John and Clara (Rohner) Rechsteiner, both of whom were Swiss immigrants.

The Wisconsin Tomorrow Small Business Recovery Grant program is now open, and will award $420 million to small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This payment will be a flat $5,000. To be eligible, a business needs to have started operating on or before December 31, 2020, still be operating in 2021, and have suffered an economic loss as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. An economic loss may be from lost revenue or increased expenses as a result of the pandemic. The business must have more than $10,000 and less than $7 million in annual revenues.

The New Glarus and Belleville Police Departments will intensify their enforcement of the mandatory safety belt law during the annual Click It or Ticket mobilization from May 24 to June 6, which includes Memorial Day weekend. More than 300 law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin are expected to participate in this year’s Click It or Ticket, according to a joint news release from New Glarus Police Lieutenant Jeff Sturdevant and Belleville Police Chief Bill Eichelkraut.

The Green’s Prairie Cemetery Association will hold a brief ceremony on Memorial Day, May 31, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. The ceremony will honor the veterans interred there and formally dedicate the flagpoles installed in 2020 to the memory of Dave Green, author, historian and long-time president of the cemetery association.
Green’s Prairie Cemetery is located in the Town of York on Postville Road, between county highways A and H.