Lone Rock

God.

Well, I was out last fall, uh, sitting, and it was a really chilly morning in early November, probably right around Halloween, and, uh, ninjed my way out to the stand, got up, and this particular stand is up on top of a 300-foot bluff overlooking, uh, Bear Valley, uh, north of Lone Rock, Wisconsin, out by Spring Green.

And the sun's coming up.

Uh, it's, it's still dark, dark-ish, um, and I hear something coming in really loud and really fast from my east.

Gruber said the closure of Arena Elementary School in 2018 has impacted his family's school commute.

He noted that another nearby elementary school in Lone Rock closed around the same time.

We have closed several schools in this district.

We have closed several police departments in this district, Gruber said.

And then as we move through your day, we're going to tell you about all kinds of just awesome events going on throughout southwest Wisconsin.

There's a bake shop and breakfast at the First Lutheran Church in Lone Rock.

Kaz Cars and Coffee going on today from now until 11 in Cazenovia.

There's a fall cleanup date this weekend for Eagle Township.

You know, education and athletics, uh, put me in this position, and I want to make sure that I pay forward relative to that.

But when you think about growing up in Lone Rock and, uh, first generation college student, got an opportunity to play, uh, football at Whitewater, uh, just a great school, got a great education there, and really started to continue to be motivated as a lifelong learner and, you know, thinking I would go on to law school at Marquette.

Those are just things you don't think about as a young person growing up in a small community.

Um, that's why it's so important, again, for me to make sure that, uh, whatever, everything we do, um, is done the right way, and more importantly, that we're visible and accessible to everybody across the state.