Scott Draves, a nationally known pottery artist, is working to help families in need in Dane County by joining the Creating for Causes benefit for Middleton Outreach Ministry (MOM).
Draves will be selling his work and donating to MOM at the art fair in the food pantry on Saturday from 1 to 7... + continue reading
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Town of Middleton residents last week unanimously approved a 2014 property tax levy that is slightly larger than this year’s and a road budget that is a little less than the current year’s.
Approximately 15 residents attended the budget hearing and approved a $2.834 million property... + continue reading
A longtime firefighter accused Middleton Fire Chief Aaron Harris of assault last year after an altercation at the site of a housefire in the Town of Springfield. The chief and the Middleton Fire Commission, which oversee a district encompassing 54 square miles and approximately 30,000 people, deny... + continue reading
With the Middleton City Council preparing to vote on the 2014 budget in the coming weeks, a recently proposed scenario for balancing the budget is front and center.
In recent finance committee meetings, city staff offered a tentative course of action which included reducing the general contingency... + continue reading
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It had been exactly eight years and 10 months.
Derek Rongstad decided that was long enough. Luke Schafer, Max Oelerich and the rest of Middleton’s boys basketball team agreed.
So... + continue reading
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Residents interested in learning more about becoming a member of the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District Board of Education are invited to attend one of two orientation sessions to be held in... + continue reading
In Business
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Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPB) announced Tuesday its world headquarters, several North American divisional operations and its technology center, in all totaling more than 500 full-time... + continue reading
Obituaries
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Edward Heinrich Hoch passed away Sunday October 27, 2013. Edward was born in Kirkwood, Missouri on July 6, 1921 to Edward J. & Ida (Weiss) Hoch. While Ed was still a boy, his family moved... + continue reading
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Raphael J. “Bud” Nonn, 81, of Lower Burrell, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, in Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, surrounded by his family. He was born in Madison, Wis., Sept.... + continue reading
The Geiger Counter
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My wife and I were recently on an airplane that experienced hydraulic failure 30,000 feet above the icy North Atlantic Ocean. It wasn’t even the most terrifying ride I took that day.
It all... + continue reading
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My dad loves genealogy. While the term has an academic ring to it, when I was a kid it just seemed like he really enjoyed stalking dead people.
He traced our lineage back hundreds of years, tracking... + continue reading
In Brief
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A local man who hoped to avoid having his name listed in this newspaper’s court report, which usually runs near the back of the newspaper, has found his way onto the front page after being... + continue reading
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From the desk of Pamela Westby, director of the Middleton Public Library:
Preprinted income tax forms will no longer be available at Middleton Public Library in 2014. The late release of printed... + continue reading
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