MITCHELL BRADLEY KELLER Marcus Mills Pomeroy stepped foot in Horicon nearly penniless, in debt and awaiting funds from the sale of a paper in Pennsylvania.This would be an accurate description of Pomeroy at several points in his life, but not even 25 years old, the East Coaster was, this time, a newlywed and at the precipice of his career.

BILL BLUMER On Saturday nights, Justin Pearson is a local favorite at Beaver Dam Raceway. The Horicon native has been moving through the ranks at the popular oval for the last 12 seasons.Technically, his first five seasons were on the fifth-mile kart track within the big track, starting when he was 11 years old, but since he turned 16, he’s been competing on the thirdmile clay high banks.

MITCHELL BRADLEY KELLER The annual Dodge County Invite was held in Horicon last week Thursday, Sept. 3, at River Bend Park, and the Horicon Marshmen runners made the most of the familiar territory by winning the meet with 33 total points and taking home a first place trophy.

MITCHELL BRADLEY KELLER Six years before the release of beatnik author Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel On The Road (1957), three Horicon High School graduates took part in what has become a formative American past time: a cross-country road trip. The year was 1951, and three young adults hit the highway for California in a 1929 Model A Ford, which was painted orange and black. The final destination was Royce S. Wrucke’s grandmother’s house, and along for the ride and companionship were his pals Don Miescke and Richard Nelson.

MITCHELL BRADLEY KELLER The School District of Horicon’s brand new single- campus school building – which will house every student in the district – will open its doors for the first time to the public on Thursday, August 20, for an inaugural celebration of its unveiling. In a sense, the story goes back 100 years when

BILL BLUMER, Contributor Horicon’s Faith Zellmer, 18, scored her first Legend Car win recently at Gravity Park Speedway in Chilton on August 7. The popular victory came in a heat race with the Wisconsin Legends Racing Dirt Series, a Wisconsin-based touring group.

MITCHELL BRADLEY KELLER At the August 3 School District of Horicon Board of Education special meeting, the board approved the administration’s plan to go forward with in-person schooling – masks required per the governor’s Executive Order 82 – with a virtual option offered through Kiel Area School District available

MITCHELL BRADLEY KELLER Every so often, in any given town or city of any particular size and wayof- being, there seems to be a personality type that can best be described as a human living in a revolving door.It is the type of individual who moves to a municipality with no real attachment to it, creates a modest name – by virtue or vice – for him or herself and then disappears entirely only returning for short, abated moments.