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Ahead of the Spring Election and Presidential Preference Vote on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) reminds voters how to obtain identification, free of charge, that’s valid for voting.

Three-party boundary talks between the City of Middleton and the towns of Springfield and Middleton may take place in the near future with appointees from the Middleton Common Council, thanks to action taken March 5 by the council.

The action occurred in response to a letter from the Middleton Town Board, whose members are eager to extend a boundary agreement set to expire on May 12. The 30-year agreement was reached in 1994.

After more than two years of discussion and debate — some of which wasn’t over on Feb. 20 — the Middleton Common Council voted for final adoption of changes to Middleton’s zoning ordinance and official map; outdoor lighting and sign ordinances.

A vigil, initially planned for February 21, took place on Saturday, February 24 at 6:30 p.m. at Lakeview Park on Allen Boulevard. The event was an ooportunity for members of the community to come together in their grief following a murder/suicide that claimed the lives of two children the prior Sunday. 

Three people are dead, including two young children, following a Sunday tragedy that has shaken the Good Neighbor City to its core. 

Two area men recently arrested at the Middleton Municipal Airport-Morey Field while allegedly carrying nearly 64 pounds of fentanyl made their first appearance Wednesday, February 14 in federal court on drug charges. 

Middleton’s city administrator Bryan Gadow announced last Friday that the city council and current Middleton mayor Emily Erin Kuhn will honor former mayor Gurdip Singh Brar with an official portrait  revealing next Tuesday evening. As tradition, Brar, of 1312 Sweeney Drive in Middleton, who was Middleton’s mayor from April 2017 to April 2023, will be presented to the city council for the installment of his official portrait in the city council chambers and receive special recognition for his many contributions and achievements  as a citizen and as an elected official in Middleton.

 Ahead of the Wisconsin Primary on Tuesday, February 20, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) reminds voters how to obtain identification, free of charge, that is valid for voting.

A large portion of Middleton is eligible for Wisconsin Inflation Reduction Act tree funding, according to a presentation from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Urban Forestry Coordinator during the Middleton Common Council’s Jan. 16 meeting.

Brian Wahl made the presentation so Middleton alders would know how the state DNR’s Urban Forestry program is available to assist the city. 

A group gathered at the Hubbard Center Jan. 24 to create mushrooms... needle felting mushrooms. It’s the art of sculpting polypay wool by repeatedly stabbing the wool with a barbed needle.  Per its instructor Erin Ehlert Maddocks , “it’s very therapeutic.” The stabbing sculpts the wool with the needle angled at 90, 45 and flat angles depending on the stage of the process. Pictured above, Elizabeth Montemayor gauges an amount of wool to be used as the mushroom’s stem. See more on page 5 of this week's edition. Photo by Mary Langenfeld.