Category: Articles

United Nations rep meets with farmers in Brodhead

Posted on August 3, 2017 - August 3, 2017 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

Area sustainable farmers met with a representative of the United Nations at the Riemer Family Farm in Brodhead, Monday, July 24, to discuss the difficulties faced by small farms and to voice concerns ... Read More

Brodhead has ties with influenza research

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

Dr. Ronaldean Pawlisch, a retired Brodhead veterinarian, knows firsthand about the notorious Type A influenza virus, H1N1, because he partnered with the nation’s top researchers on the subject at th... Read More

Brodhead couple reaches Romanian people through broadcast ministry

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

Stefan and Doina Varo, rural Brodhead, fled Romania in 1982 and came to the United States with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and an extra change of clothes. Today, they are reaching out... Read More

Vietnam vet returns to Vietnam after 40 years

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

On February 1, Fritz Schultz of Brodhead flew into the Hanoi airport with his son Jacob and Jacob’s family (wife Zoila and daughters, Julia, 5, and Sophia, six months). The Vietnam veteran was excit... Read More

Local ham operators enjoy hobby

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

Imagine talking to others all over the world at any time of the day. Imagine being able to assist others through Homeland Security or during weather-related emergencies. Imagine rescuing four adults a... Read More

Charlie Scriven remembered: a story about how each life matters

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

Some people come into our lives and leave imprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. To many in Brodhead, Charlie Scriven was such a man. When asked about Charlie, many volunteered the followi... Read More

Krahenbuhls go to Romania to encourage missionaries and teach cheesemaking

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

Southern Romania is one of the poorer parts of one of the poorer nations in Europe. For Pastor Dan Krahenbuhl and his wife, Jennifer, visiting Bircii, Romania, was like stepping back into history 100 ... Read More

Brodhead family builds home using innovative straw-clay design

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

A Madison-based architect, Lou Host-Jablonski, is promoting a building technique that goes back millennia—straw and clay walls. Host-Jablonski once held a 700-year-old straw-clay mixture from a home... Read More

Orfordville man collects and makes fountain pens

Posted on August 23, 2016 - August 23, 2016 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

Beauty is everywhere. We can find it in a muffled snow covered woods or in the face of a newborn babe. We can find beauty in a poem or in a painting. There is even beauty in common things such as a ta... Read More

Brodhead pickles made a difference for American soldiers and local families

Posted on August 23, 2016 - August 23, 2016 by Michelle Kaderly Welsh

Perhaps you haven’t given pickles much thought except as a tasty addition to your sandwich, but pickles were quite important to our nation and, in particular, to Brodhead during World War II. In fac... Read More

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