Courier Press

Sister Mary Ernest Gibson, 96, died Tuesday, Feb. 27, at Notre Dame of Elm Grove.

Sister Mary Ernest was born Nov. 21, 1921, in Waucoma, Iowa, to Ernest and Rose Rodenkirch Gibson. Mary Ernest was given the name Harriet.

Raymond Bernard Chase,  80, of Prairie du Chien, and formerly of Fairbank, Iowa, passed away May 12, 2017 at Crossing Rivers Heath Medical Center of congestive heart failure.

Mara Hird will be the new Wauzeka-Steuben School District board member, as the district continues discussions of a referendum. 

Hird, a People’s State Bank loan officer, won Tuesday’s spring election with 184 votes, defeating Kathleen Schwartz, a De Soto school teacher, who garnered 138 votes. She will step into the shoes of outgoing board president Bill Marfilius, who lost in February’s primary election.

Hird won the majority vote in all of the district’s wards except two—the town of Eastman, which Schwartz won 23-17, and in the town of Haney, where the women tied. Otherwise, Mara’s victory was secured mostly by the Wauzeka village electorate, which gave her 81 votes over Schwartz’s 49. 

By Correne Martin

With more young men involved in the Prairie du Chien High School theater production than anticipated for awhile, “Robin Hood,” and all its merry adventures, was the perfect selection for this year’s spring stage play. Three performances are scheduled for April 12-14, at 7 p.m. each night.

Past assistant and middle school lead director, Dale Hanson is this season’s high school director. He feels play-goers will be enraptured by the show’s humor and the moral of the story of the legendary heroic outlaw who is Robin Hood: Rob from the rich and give to the poor.