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The joint purchase of the vacant lot neighboring District One EMS in Mazomanie is finalized, Village Trustee Mitch Hodson reported during the Black Earth Village Board meeting on July 6. 

Thermo Fisher Scientific, which employs about 2,000 people in Middleton, said it is eliminating about 70 employee positions in Middleton. The bioanalytical laboratory giant said the decision will consolidate operations into its facility in Richmond, Virginia. The move is expected to lay off 69 employees and close the company’s facility at 3230 Deming Way in Middleton over the many months. 

MIDDLETON - The Middleton Common Council on July 7 referred the creation of a public comment policy for city board, committee and commission agendas to its License & Ordinance Committee. 

For over 60 years, Big Brother Big Sister (BBBS) Dane County has paired children ages 6-18 with adults in the community with the hope of creating mentor relationships to last a lifetime. After the “Little” brothers and sisters grow up and age out of the program, the choice of continuing their relationship with their “Bigs” is left up to the pairs to decide. But for Katharine Clark, Deputy Director of the Middleton Public Library and “Big Sister” to 20-year old Alivia Moon, it wasn’t a choice at all. 

For just over a decade, Middleton High School Social Studies teacher Andy Hartman has led students on study tours across Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. These trips have given hundreds of MHS students the chance to learn social studies and world history not just in classrooms, but through real life experience. But since the first tour in 2009, the opportunity has been exclusive — with steep price tags, limited scholarship options and destinations restricted by travel safety guidelines. Hartman is on a mission to change that. 

MADISON – Dane County jurors needed less than 90 minutes to convict a Mount Horeb man and former Kromery Middle School janitor of repeated sexual assault of a child.

The Wisconsin Heights School board discussed the results of district scorecards, highlighting growth in academic and wellbeing scores across elementary, middle and high school during its June 22 meeting. 

314 Anne St, now called “The Grove” in Mazomanie, has been home to an elementary school, a church, a non-profit community center and more. Now, a small corner of this versatile building will house part of the Wisconsin Lions Club’s mission to provide free vision correction to those in need.