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CROSS PLAINS - Opening side streets to All-Terrain and Utility-Terrain Vehicles has produced few complaints in the past five years, prompting the Board last week to expand their hours of legal operation. 

When Vermont Lutheran Church established its Legacy Fund in January 2019, the goal was ambitious but deeply rooted in the church’s long-standing commitment to creation care: raise enough money to purchase the 115-acre farm adjacent to its property. Just three years later, in January 2022, that goal became reality.

When the Wisconsin Heights School Board filed into a room adjacent to the High School Library on April 22 at 7 p.m., they were there to ostensibly judge the employment fate of an employee. That employee’s actions had drawn attention in various corners of the community, enough so to draw an admittedly small crowd that regardless stayed for the entire five plus hours of the hearing. 

TOWN OF MIDDLETON – Residents last week passed on an opportunity to buy any part of an inactive cemetery along Airport Road. 

During a council reorganizational meeting in which he read two proclamations, outgoing Middleton Common Council Alder Jeffrey Jackson received a salute from his successor, District 5 Alder Charles Myers.

 U.S. Representative Mark Pocan met with students at Clark Street Community School on Wednesday, April 23, where he spoke to Ross Cohen’s “History of the LGBTQ Movement” class about his journey, the challenges of today’s political landscape, and ongoing efforts to protect LGBTQ rights.

Lions Park in Mazomanie has seen nearly $600,000 in improvements thanks to an anonymous donor, and the village invites everyone to a weekend-long celebration of the park May 16^th through 18^th.

TOWN OF MIDDLETON – Residents weighed in last week on the prospect of incorporating this town into the village of West Middleton.  

Despite two voices of opposition, the Middleton Common Council voted April 15 to give final approval to the first phase of final plat for Pheasant Crossing west of High Road.

MADISON – A Middleton teenager who wants to play lacrosse for Edgewood High School is personally suing the WIAA after they sidelined her chances to fully participate in the sport.