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Independent-Scout wins awards INDEPENDENT-SCOUT reporter Gillian Pomplun and editor Charley Preusser hold the three first place awards won in the WNA Better Newspaper Contest. GAYS MILLS - It’s the right time of year for a little pick-me up…frankly, maybe it’s just the right yearfor a little pick-me-up. Anyway, that’s just what the Crawford County Independent & Kickapoo Scout received last Friday night courtesy of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. The WNA held a virtual awards ceremony to honor those who won awards in the Better Newspaper Contest. And, the Independent-Scout was right in the thick of it–winning nine awards for small weekly newspapers (in Division F), including three first-place awards. ....
Area fiber optic lines cut, causes outage Boscobel BOSCOBEL - Anyone who needed to know the importance of internet access in 2020 found out last week when connection was lost completely. Customers of US Cellular and Verizon also reported cell phone outages at the same time. Between late Tuesday morning, Dec. 8 and early Thursday morning, Dec. 10, customers of CenturyLink internet were without service throughout the area. CenturyLink never released a public explanation for the long outage, with service being interrupted Tuesday, sporadically restored Wednesday afternoon and completely restored late Thursday morning. A City of Platteville Facebook page post reported a fiber optic line was cut and later the Grant County Sheriff’s Department reported, “Per a representative from the TDS Telecom, a fiber optic line had been damaged between Boscobel and Muscoda. They stated that the repair splicing crews were on their way and ....