July 2021

<strong>NIU Spring 2021 Graduation List</strong>
Over 2,400 students received their degrees from Northern Illinois University in June. Included among the graduates were the following students from our area: Noelle Maire, Albany, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering: Biomedical Engineering; and Randel Gunter, New Glarus, Bachelor of Science, Art.

Dear Editor,
The Monticello Homecoming Motorcycle Ride organizers would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s motorcycle event. Thanks to everyone’s generous donations, we were able to raise money for the Area Empty Stocking Fund.
Once again it was a successful year, we rode over 100 miles before returning to the Monticello Homecoming Event.

The New Glarus Chamber of Commerce and Swiss Center of North America are hosting a special weekend celebration in honor of the 175+1 anniversary of the founding of New Glarus! Originally planned for 2020, the anniversary celebrations were rescheduled to 2021 due to the pandemic. Interestingly enough, that was not the first time the anniversary had to be postponed – the centennial anniversary festivities in 1945 were also delayed a year to allow the men and women away at war to return home.

On July 3, 2021, at about 12:52 p.m., Green County Deputies and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wardens responded to the location of W7700 block of the Cheese County Trail, in the Town of Cadiz, for a single ATV crash with injuries.
A 65-year-old male operator of the ATV died from injuries after his ATV struck a deer standing on the trail. The ATV was traveling west on the trail at the time of the collision. The ATV left the trail after striking the deer and entered a steep embankment, where it collided with trees.