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    Westby is a city in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,332 as of the 2020 census. The name "Westby" is a Norwegian name and...
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  • Westby may refer to: England Westby, Lancashire Westby, Lincolnshire U.S.A. Westby, Montana Westby, North Dakota Westby, Wisconsin Australia Westby, New...
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    Rømmegrøt (category Cuisine of Wisconsin)
    making the dish with her granddaughter, and includes a recipe. In Westby, Wisconsin, a city that celebrates its Norwegian heritage, there is an annual...
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    Freddie Slack (category People from Westby, Wisconsin)
    swing and boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader. Slack was born in Westby, Wisconsin, United States. He learned to play drums as a boy. Later he took up...
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    Vernon County Jane Doe (category 1984 in Wisconsin)
    The body was found at 11:15 p.m. on May 4, 1984, near the town of Westby, Wisconsin, by three teenagers within 24 to 48 hours after her death. There was...
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    Westby Coon-Prairie Lutheran Church is an ELCA Lutheran church located in Westby, Wisconsin and is part of the La Crosse Area Synod. It is currently served...
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    Norwegian heritage, including: Stoughton, Wisconsin; Sunburg, Minnesota; Ulen, Minnesota; and Westby, Wisconsin. Starbuck, Minnesota is known to produce...
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    Washington. In 2012, the day was celebrated in Las Vegas, Nevada. Westby, Wisconsin, and Norway, Michigan, have held festivals near the day. There have...
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    Mai is also celebrated in Oswego, New York. Since 1969, the city of Westby, Wisconsin, has celebrated a four-day festival featuring authentic Norwegian...
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    Clinton". Westby Times. Retrieved May 10, 2010. Dorothy Jasperson-Robson (May 19, 2010). "Standing room only at Clinton beaver dam meeting". Westby Times...
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  • Hjalmer S. Halvorsen (category People from Westby, Wisconsin)
    1970) was an American businessman and politician. Born on a farm near Westby, Wisconsin, Halvorsen went to Luther College. From 1911 to 1914, he was deputy...
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  • Stoddard, Viroqua, and Westby. Wood County Biron, Milladore, Nekoosa, Port Edwards, Rudolph, and Vesper. United States portal Wisconsin's congressional districts...
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  • Jane Doe was an unidentified victim was found on 4 May 1984, near Westby, Wisconsin. Her hands were severed and never found. Catrine da Costa was a Swedish...
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    (Wisconsin) Highway 33 (Wisconsin) Highway 35 (Wisconsin) Highway 56 (Wisconsin) Highway 80 (Wisconsin) Highway 82 (Wisconsin) Highway 131 (Wisconsin)...
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  • Arthur O. Mockrud (category People from Westby, Wisconsin)
    was born in Westby, Wisconsin. He went to the Westby public schools. Mockrud received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and his law...
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    Illinois; Jamestown, New York; Mount Jewett, PA, Wilcox, PA, and Westby, Wisconsin, as well as significant areas of central Texas, including New Sweden...
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    Ski Jump Cancelled WJMN Local 3 Strunk, Ryan (2024) The second day of the Westby Ski Jump kicks off ABC News19 3000 people watch 1st day of Harris Hill Ski...
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    of the present city of Westby, Wisconsin (named after general store owner and American Civil War Union soldier Ole T. Westby); a city which still has...
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  • Dedrick Martin Langve (category People from Westby, Wisconsin)
    practiced law in Westby, Wisconsin from 1924 onward; he also practiced law in La Crosse, Wisconsin for one year. Langve served as clerk of Wisconsin Circuit Court...
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    Snowflake Ski Jump (category Buildings and structures in Vernon County, Wisconsin)
    The Snowflake Ski Jump is a ski jumping hill north of Westby, Wisconsin, United States, in Timber Coulee. It is host to a ski jumping tournament that...
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    Dexter Bean (category People from Westby, Wisconsin)
    drove the No. 02 Silverado at the Milwaukee Mile. Bean was born in Westby, Wisconsin on January 5, 1987. He has type 1 diabetes. Bean is married to Misty...
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  • Westbrook, Maine – Colonel Thomas Westbrook (early settler) Westby, Wisconsin – O.T. Westby (settler) Westerlo, New York – Rev. Eilardus Westerlo Westmoreland...
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  • Lutheran Church-Bethania Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, (Ephraim, Wisconsin) Westby Coon-Prairie Lutheran Church, (Westby, Wisconsin)...
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  • Nils Joseph Hong (category People from Westby, Wisconsin)
    Norwegian parents Thore Olsen Hong and Helen Nilsdatter Brendum Hong in Westby, Wisconsin. The family moved to Minnesota when he was a child. He attended the...
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  • Lawrence Grimsrud (category People from Westby, Wisconsin)
    Wisconsin, and was admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1901. Grimsrud lived briefly in Minot, North Dakota and then practiced law in Westby, Wisconsin....
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  • Andrew H. Dahl (category People from Westby, Wisconsin)
    politician in Wisconsin. Dahl was born in Lewiston, Wisconsin. He attended high school in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Dahl was supervisor of the village of Westby, Wisconsin...
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    a Milwaukee Road branch line from Sparta via Leon, Melvina, Cashton and Westby. Commuter bus service towards La Crosse is provided seven times daily per...
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  • September 5 President Biden visits the Vernon Electric Cooperative, in Westby, Wisconsin. Friday, September 6 Saturday, September 7 Sunday, September 8 Date...
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  • 127 | 114 Snowflake Ski Jump, Westby, Wisconsin (Four Hills SuperTour) 118 | 106 Silvermine Ski Jump, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Abandoned Papoose Peak Jumps...
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    Ludvig Hektoen (category People from Westby, Wisconsin)
    Diseases—now bears his name. Hektoen was born on July 2, 1863, in Westby, Wisconsin,: 164  to Peter P. Hektoen, a farmer and Lutheran schoolteacher, and...
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