Valley Sentinel

11/12/2025

11/12/2025

Seeing the northern lights tonight? Feel free to share with the community your best shots and the location here in the comments.

Pictured is the Arena Boat Landing tonight. Photo by Karen Scott.

11/07/2025

Community Food Drive

We’re proud to partner with the Community Food Pantry of Spring Green to help support local families this holiday season.
From November 6–16, we will be taking donations of $1 or $5 at Molter’s! Every contribution makes a difference! See in store for details.

11/04/2025

Our editor, Nicole, was invited to contribute a guest column to The Royal Purple — UW-Whitewater’s student newspaper — in honor of its 124th anniversary. As a former editor-in-chief during her college days, she shared reflections on her journalism journey since her time at the paper. Read her column here:

I’ve wanted to be a journalist since I was seven years old — I know it sounds crazy that a young kid would randomly decide one day to become a journalist but I swear I did. People used to ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up and while most kids that...

10/28/2025

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10/27/2025

We are pleased to share our editors' testimonials after receiving Shine Awards from the Tiffany Shackelford Foundation. These awards enabled us to engage in professional development, education & networking at the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Publishers conference earlier this summer—so that we can continue to work on doing the news better for you.

You can read here: https://www.tiffanyshack.org/shines-testimonials/nicole-aimone
and here: https://www.tiffanyshack.org/shines-testimonials/taylor-q-scott

We'll be back soon.

10/27/2025

The law enforcement agencies' minimum fees, experts say, contradict Wisconsin state law that states any charges for records requests must be tied to a calculation of the actual cost of producing the records.

10/27/2025

TIME CHANGE: RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNUAL BUDGET MEETING

We received word this morning that the River Valley School Board meeting where the annual budget is enacted was moved up a half hour earlier tonight.

We’ve reached out to the district to request information on what good cause exists to give the public and the media less than the required 24 hours notice.

The budget hearing and annual meeting at 6pm proceeding this meeting appears to be unaffected. More information can be found here: https://www.rvschools.org/board-meeting-and-committee-meeting

10/17/2025

BARABOO, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin-Platteville will be ceasing operations on its Baraboo Sauk County campus, effective May 22, 2026.

07/20/2025

07/18/2025

Wow!! Thank you so much for the honor of Best in the Valley, 4 years running!!! I appreciate the votes, being able to STILL do what I love and having the BEST couples!!
Thank You Valley Sentinel for putting this little poll on and for being an exceptional news source for the River Valley!!!
Congratulations to DJ Robbie Rob & Screamin’ Scott!!

07/18/2025

📰 Newsletter Edition - 07/10/25(ish) - https://mailchi.mp/6fff19c86640/11-14-9300568
We had to rebuild the backend of our website, to rebuild the frontend of our website, to get pieces and stories online, to organize our email list, to build our newsletter. And here it is. Our new newsletter edition. What do you think?