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With 12 calls to the police in the past seven or eight months, neighbors around Jax Place in Mazomanie, took their complaints to the village board at their meeting June 10ths. 

The Middleton Cross Plains Area School District board of education listened as representatives of McKinstry LLC gave an upbeat report on progress thus far that takes the district closer to completing phase 1 of the sustainability plan adopted in February.  Following the progress report from McKinstry the board voted to approve a parameters resolution that will allow administration to move forward with the next steps of borrowing $7,825,000, working with Robe

During a July 15 meeting when the Middleton Common Council approved two settlements of damage claims against the city, alders approved a third settlement against advice from their insurance advisor on a split 4-2 vote.

With only limited video available, the Middleton Common Council on July 15 heard two Middleton residents and one former resident ask for upgrades to the Middleton Public Library.

During a reading of a proclamation, the July 1 Middleton Common Council meeting suffered a loss of video signal that resulted in just a few minutes from the meeting being posted to the city’s YouTube page.

Over 40 residents gathered at the Cross Plains Town Hall to share their concerns over the proposed Marchstone development, during a public meeting of the Plan Commission on July 7.

TOWN OF MIDDLETON – “Shocked” and “sadden” were the reactions of neighbors to the first homicides in the town in recent memory.

The City of Middleton’s Finance & Personnel Committee recently discussed a proposal for the City of Middleton to donate the 77,325 sq. ft., $11.4 million Capitol Ice Arena to the ownership of the arena to facilitate improvements.

CROSS PLAINS – A two-mile extension of the Cross Plains Driftless Downs Mountain Bike Trail System is in the works.

As temperatures soared into the nineties in Cross Plains, about fifty volunteers braved the heat to attend the town’s second annual Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) bed build. The event was held in collaboration with the Madison West Chapter of SHP, a national non-profit committed to building beds for needy children across the country.