Category Archives: Local News

Mental health, housing critical in 2024 Green County assessment
Green County Healthy Community Coalition released its 2024 community health assessment on Monday in which mental health and housing were the top themes for Green County to address. The community healt...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025

New gym opened in Platteville
Area fitness fans have a new place to work up a sweat after the recent opening of a Platteville gym. Impact Fitness Platteville recently opened in the basement of the old Platteville Armory. The gym o...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025

Arena man arrested following domestic disturbance
On Sunday at 10:43 PM Iowa County Communications Center received a report of a domestic disturbance on Oak St in the Village of Arena. Iowa County Sheriff's Deputies responded to the scene. As a resul...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025

Eastman man arrested for OWI 2nd offense
On Sunday at 5:16 AM Iowa County Communications Center received a report of a one-vehicle crash on Highway 18-151 near Mile Marker 55 in the Township of Ridgeway. Iowa County Sheriff's Deputies, Ridge...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025

One injured in Paris rollover
On Sunday, at 4:45 a.m., the Grant County Sheriff's Office responded to a single vehicle crash on Highway 151 Northbound at West Ln., in the Township of Paris. 25-year-old Dulce Manuel Garcia of East ...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025

Lancaster woman arrested for OWI with baby in the vehicle
On Friday, at 11:00 p.m., the Grant County Communication center received a traffic complaint of a reported intoxicated driver with a baby in the vehicle. The vehicle was located traveling South on Cou...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025

Two arrested following traffic stop in Dodgeville
On Saturday at 9:48 PM the Iowa County Sheriff's Deputies and K9 Sam conducted a traffic stop on Highway 18-151 near County Road YZ in the Township of Dodgeville. As a result of the stop, two arrests ...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025

Linden man arrested for OWI
On Saturday at 12:25 AM the Iowa County Sheriff's Deputies and K9 Sam conducted a traffic stop on Whitson Road in the Township of Linden. As a result of the stop,23-year-old Jerimiah M Beasley of Lind...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025

Person falls through the ice in Mineral Point
On Friday at 2 PM The Iowa County Communications Center received a report of a subject who had fallen on the ice on Ludden Lake in the Township of Mineral Point. Mineral Point EMS, Mineral Point Fire,...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025

Telegraph Herald switching to 3-day print schedule
Beginning Feb. 15, the Telegraph Herald will transition from printing six days per week to printing three days per week - specifically, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The evolving landscape of ne...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 13, 2025





