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by Mike Reilly How about our first two snowfalls for this winter? We knew it wouldn’t stick with the ground being so warm, but it did hang around for a couple of days, especially in the fields where the crops had been taken.

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by Mike Reilly Saturday morning I had to make a trip north to Straka Meats in Plain to pick up some beef brother Pat had bought so our Saturday morning breakfast took us that direction to Anita’s in Spring Green for a 7:30 start to the day.

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by Mike Reilly I’m not really a FACEBOOK fan, but sometimes I scan it. Here’s something that I spotted that gives information and a statement that people should heed! “Clocks go back on November 3rd. I hope mine goes back to when people had Morals, Values, Loyalty, Appreciation and Respect.”

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by Mike Reilly Saturday morning breakfast took us a little to the south as we headed to Spring Green and landed at the General Store. We hadn’t been there in quite some time and when we arrived we were a couple minutes early as they didn’t open until 8:00. We …

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by Mike Reilly Saturday morning breakfast was a “Welcome home to Dave Stone” breakfast. We had to go close to where he lives (Klevenville) so we decided to make the trip to Gus’s Diner in Verona. Dave had been on a three month trip to the west coast to play …

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by Mike Reilly Our Saturday morning breakfast was kind of a bittersweet one. We wanted to have breakfast with or go see good friend Dennis Kopps, a special needs adult who lived in Dodgeville for many years.

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I saw a first the other day. I was crossing the street downtown at the bank corner heading to Bob’s Bitchin BBQ. An older gentleman was at Bob’s corner and traffic stopped for him to cross the street.

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Chronicle employees Heather Olson and I got a chance to meet “Poppy”, the dog that was featured on the front …

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by Mike Reilly The 2-week Dodgeville Town Square kicked off last Sunday afternoon and will run until July 27 on East Merrimac that is blocked off between The Red Room and Bob’s Bitchin BBQ - There is something going on each day!

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by Mike Reilly I think I am going to keep harping about people not using their directionals! The other day I was delivering Chronicles to Kwik Trip North and was going to turn left into the lot (heading north).

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I heard by the grapevine that it was Roseann Rossing’s (Sergeant Roso) birthday and that one of the most important people in her life forgot it! No name will be mentioned!

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by Mike Reilly We received a couple of notes from readers renewing their Dodgeville Chronicle last week. The first one came from longtime friend Leo Clerkin of Barneveld. He said,”Looks like I missed the month free. That’s OK. Great paper.

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by Mike Reilly Last Wednesday I met Dewey and Father Leffler at Bob’s Bitchin BBQ for lunch and when I walked in there was a table of young men dressed to the hilt in Norwegian costumes.

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by Mike Reilly We received a nice note from “old” friend Thom Anderson, who used to be a saple at Strong’s Bank here in Dodgeville. He and wife Roxanne now live in Eagle, Wisconsin.

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by Mike Reilly The weather was so nice for most of last week I broke tradition. I usually wait until the actual first day of spring (March 20) to go from a long sleeve shirt to a short sleeve shirt. but on Wednesday, our day of mailing out our papers …
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