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11/21/2025

New Iowa County Administrator

The Iowa County Board has offered a contract to Clinton Langreck to become the new County Administrator. Langreck accepted the offer as the board unanimously agreed to extend the offer at a special meeting Thursday. His contract is renewable after three years and he will begin his duties January 5.

Langreck reportedly resigned his current employment as Platteville's city manager earlier Thursday. He and his family live in Mineral Point. More on the special meeting in next week's newspaper.

11/21/2025

Thursday night Girls' Basketball Scores

Dodgeville 58 Evansville 56
Platteville 63 Mineral Point 51
River Valley 69 Potosi/Cassville 39
Belleville 57 Barneveld 49

11/19/2025

In this week’s Spotlight section of the Dodgeville Chronicle, you’ll read about a couple who moved to Iowa County from Western Pennsylvania to be closer to their grown children. They are big-time foodies and simply fell in love with Southwest Wisconsin, from all the hard-working farmers to a plethora of farm markets in the area, and they remind us that Midwest Kind is an actual thing.

The best part, they have created a YouTube cooking channel to not only share with their kids, but with you as well! The Wooden Spoon Bakery in Ridgeway has several recipes for you to watch and try – just in time for the upcoming Holiday season.

Make sure you pick up a Chronicle this week for our featured Spotlight story on the Wooden Spoon Bakery, and for all your local news and sports events happening in Iowa County.

If only video allowed the viewer to be able to smell the aromas coming from their kitchen, but use your imagine as you watch this inspiring program on Matt and Michelle from the Wooden Spoon Bakery.

11/19/2025

The WIAA Winter Sports season tipped off tonight in Girl's basketball and we have results of four area non-conference games.

Fennimore 38 - Highland 33
Lancaster 73 - Mineral Point 45
Platteville 60 - Barneveld 55
River Valley 81 - Lodi 55

And don't forget this Thursday at 1:00 p.m., SWAL Conference Champions Darlington will play Edgar for the WIAA Division 6 State Championship. Both teams are undefeated at 13-0. Both schools have been powerhouses over the years in football.

According to the WIAA, Edgar will be making its 15th state appearance - winning 7 state titles. Darlington will be making its 13th state appearance - winning 4 state championships. The game can be seen on ABC affiliate WKOW, Channel 27.

Edgar has compiled the most victories in the history of the football playoffs with 101 in qualifying 38 times. Stratford with 90 wins in 38 appearances is next, and Waunakee has 88 wins in 29 playoff appearances followed by St. Mary's Springs with 84 wins in the playoffs with its 22 experiences. Darlington has won 83 playoff games in its 36 appearances, and Lancaster and Menomonie are next with 78 wins in qualifying 38 times.

10/31/2025

Two area volleyball teams advanced to the WIAA Sectional Final game this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. The #9 ranked team in the state in Division 5, Highland defeated De Soto 3-1 and will play #2 ranked Newman Catholic at Riverdale. Unranked Pecatonica defeated Southwestern 3-2 to advance to the finals against #4 ranked St. Ambrose who advanced beating #5 ranked Barneveld 3-1. That sectional final game will be played at Barneveld.

And in Division 3, #4 ranked Mineral Point lost in straight sets to #10 ranked Marshall and will not be returning to the state tournament this year and we have highlights of that match.

Pecatonica beat Southwestern 3-2 (12-25, 25-22, 25-23,17-25, 15-6)
St. Ambrose beat Barneveld 3-1 (25-21, 25-21, 15-25, 25-18)
Highland beat De Soto 3-1 (24-26, 25-20, 25-11, 25-19)
Marshall beat Mineral Point 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-13)

Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. Sectional Finals
Pecatonica vs. St. Ambrose at Barneveld
Highland vs. Newman Catholic at Riverdale

10/29/2025

The time was now. As we all know, the Quality Bakery in Dodgeville closed its doors earlier this month after 97 years of making delicious baked goods. I was able to connect with owner Courtney Mallon a few days after she made the decision to close the bakery, giving her a chance to relax and reflect on her last whirlwind week. We have her story and the difficult decision to close the door.

You’ll want to pick up the Chronicle this week as well to read Pat Reilly’s Spotlight article and his angle knowing the bakery and Crubaugh family for years. It’s a good read.

Thank you to Faith at Theo & Co Photography and the Crubaugh family for providing some photos for this story.

And thank you, Quality Bakery, for 97 wonderful years of serving our amazing community!

09/27/2025

The Mineral Point Pointer Football team enjoyed a sweet victory Friday night for its Homecoming game against Beloit Turner 35-28 on a picture-perfect evening played at Ron Murphy Field. And we have highlights of the game.

In other area Friday night games:

Lancaster 28 – Dodgeville 26
River Valley 28 – Richland Center 6
Prairie du Chien 48 – Iowa-Grant 6
Mount Horeb/Barneveld 57 – Sauk Prairie 24
Highland 30 – Wonewoc/Weston 20

08/20/2025

It’s that time again, Iowa County residents, to make plans to attend your 169th county fair in Mineral Point beginning Thursday August 28th and running through Monday, September 1st. This year’s Labor Day Event theme is Harvesting Memories and as always, the schedule is action-packed for the five-day event.

Check out the story for all things happening at the fair. For admission or ride tickets, you can go online to purchase at www.iowacountyfair.com.

08/19/2025

The Iowa County Cancer Coalition held its annual fundraising event Saturday at the Lands' End Comer Activity Center. In case you were not able to attend, or not aware that the Coalition exists, The Dodgeville Chronicle covered the event to help spread cancer awareness here in Iowa County.

What started in 2017, the group raises money for cancer patients specific to Iowa County, providing things like gas cards to travel to treatments, grocery cards for essential needs, help in paying bills to ease financial stress, and to help cover costs related to chemotherapy, radiation, doctor visits, pain management, and hospice care.

This week's paper will have a recap as well as this video highlighting Saturday's event. For more information visit their website at iowacountycancercoaliton.org.

08/11/2025

The Mineral Point Boys Wrestling Team was recognized on the field as the Milwaukee Brewers celebrated Wisconsin high school athletic excellence during their State Champions Spotlight on Friday, August 8, when they hosted the New York Mets.

Four state championship teams were recognized on the field during pre-game ceremonies, including the Mineral Point Boys Wrestling Team.

Teams were introduced and honored on the field as part of the Brewers' ongoing commitment to recognizing outstanding high school athletics across Wisconsin.

Here is the video courtesy of the Milwaukee Brewers.

07/04/2025

In Thursday's Dodgeville Chronicle newspaper edition, there was a Spotlight story on three area Dodge-Point Cross Country and Track athletes, who have had a solid four-year career at every level.

Mineral Point's Annie and Ellie Robinson, and Dodgeville's Layne Aurit, are literally running off to college soon, to not only excel academically, but to help two solid running programs maintain their top-notch NCAA D1, and NCAA D3, status. They look forward to the challenge.

Their academic, athletic, and extra-curricular activities are stellar. Interviewing them was fun! They're very nice, rounded kids, with a great attitude, and a positive future for all of them.

Thank you to Bret Peterson for his Regional and Sectional photos that were used in this piece. Also, thanks to Mineral Point and Dodgeville School District's for posting great photos on Facebook and keeping everyone in the know, who follow it.

Give us a Like or a comment if you like this type of video reporting! We're trying to transition to a continued, solid newspaper for Iowa County, yet, giving you digital video content with active sponsored, advertising links to your site.

Thanks for viewing, and supporting the newspaper! Happy 4th of July!

03/28/2025

It took longer than expected because of other medical issues. Still, Poppy was finally cleared for surgery, and we're happy to report that surgery for her eye removal and spaying was successful.

Poppy is the dog who suffered abuse at the hands of her previous owner during the early years of her life, which we reported on back in July of 2024.

Lisa Edge took the dog in and, with the help of many, Poppy is on the road to recovery. Here is her update story!

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