Beaver Dam High School celebrates Homecoming

Downtown Beaver Dam is stuffed with a crowd of new characters this year. The Beaver Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Scarecrow Contest is now ready, and will be judged by area citizens in coming weeks.

A play written by a woman for her grandchildren will premiere this weekend as “Curses, A Fractured Fairies’ Tale” premieres at Beaver Dam Area Community Theatre, 117 W. Maple Ave.

Art on the Town, 123 Front St., is one of six finalists in the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s annual Main Street Makeover contest.

A $145,600 Site Assessment Grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) will help clear the way for new development in dow…

The Beaver Dam Unified School Board approved the 2023-24 school district budget with a mill rate reduction from last year. The mill rate for the 2022-23 school year is $7.76 per $1,000 of equalized assessed property value, a decrease from $8.29 for the current year.

Beaver Dam High School’s National Honor Society will once again be hosting its annual Veteran’s Day ceremony on Nov. 11.

A solid waste utility may balance the million dollar shortfall for the 2023 budget for the City of Beaver Dam. That and further budget trimming were proposed Monday night at City Hall.

A write-in candidate is hoping to get enough votes to up seat Mark Born on the ballot on Nov. 8 for the 39th assembly seat for the Wisconsin State Assembly. Steve Rydzewski announced that he was running as a write in candidate in October months after the possibility of being listed on the ballot as a candidate.

A recent recruit to the Beaver Dam Police Department was honored by classmates at the time at the Fox Valley Technical College Law Enforcement Recruit Academy with the Craig Birkholz Leadership Award.

Sarah Csiacsek is awaiting the release of her first crochet book, which showcases her artwork of the "chonky" creatures that she designs with chunky yarn.

The Manufacturing Business Alliance of the Dodge County Region, which brings manufacturers together to educate young people about the careers …

There is a star in our midst. Beaver Dam High School’s mascot Benjamin Beaver received two mascot hall of fame awards over the weekend.