Hannah Brock

FORT ATKINSON – Berta Griffin has played Mrs. Claus at Busy Barns, on U.S. Highway 12 in rural Fort Atkinson for the past three seasons.

FORT ATKINSON -- “Knowing that you're giving something back to the community is part of the whole Christmas spirit,” Becky Schultz, a five-year member of Fort Atkinson Community Theater reflected as FACT gets set for a holiday show this weekend.

FORT ATKINSON — “If you didn't have that spirit of Christmas before they came, I bet you have it now,” Fort HealthCare Partners Co-President Jane Winiarski said at the 40th Annual Love Lights tree lighting ceremony on Thursday.

“There's rarely as much left at all, really. Some years we've had some left. Last year, the tables were almost empty,” Lorna Lovett, president of Christmas Neighbors, said.

FORT ATKINSON -- Olivia Van Etten, 12, lives in Fort Atkinson and has acted in many productions at The Fireside Theater. She’s used to community members recognizing her face.

JEFFERSON -- As she helped prepare Tuesday for the annual Christmas Neighbors distribution at Jefferson Fair Park, Jeanne Delacruz-Raub reflected on the work put in by the eighth-grade class of her daughter, Isabel, to create blankets for this year's event.

JEFFERSON — More than 60 high school students from across Jefferson County helped get the Fair Park Activity Center in Jefferson ready Tuesday to spread some Christmas cheer.

FORT ATKINSON – It was not where Molly Anderson had expected to give birth to her son, Kate Otto. In the end, it became both a birth story and a

FORT ATKINSON — “If Santa can do it, we can,” Vicki Keogh chuckles, reminiscing about inclement weather that she and her family have driven through over the years to deliver Christmas dinners.

JEFFERSON — Sheridan Gillis, a former Madison business banker, took both herself and a longtime Jefferson business down new paths this year.