Snowmobilers Plan To Merge Two Trails In Crawford County
Two snowmobile clubs with the Crawford County Board plan to merge a northeast trail of 57 miles with a shorter southwest segment into a single master plan to submit to the state by January 1. The effort aims to add about 10 miles this year with landowner agreements drafted for DNR approval in Eau Claire.
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Eileen Schoville
Soldiers Grove
Wis
Crawford County Board
Virgil Butteris
Crawford County
Trail funding planned for Crawford County route
Counties official Adrian R Hagen said the DNR will finance land acquisition for trails and trail development with cost sharing for maintenance. The Crawford County trail will be graded and properly marked and opened for public use if aid is allowed. Hillbilly Snowmobile Club has 64 families and Sports Unlimited Snowmobile Club about 30 families.
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Adrian R. Hagen
Onalaska
DNR
Crawford County
Hillbilly Snowmobile Club
Sports Unlimited Snowmobile Club
Hillsboro Elementary to present a Christmas program
Hillsboro Wisconsin elementary students will stage a Christmas program at the school. Directors invite families and the community to attend. Provided details include date and time to be announced. The event promises songs, readings, and festive activities by students.
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Hillsboro
Wis
Management seminar on administering the agreement held in Tomah
Garry E. Morse former chief of industrial relations for Minneapolis Honeywell Neil Gundermann Madison management consultant and Roger Debenham WSBA consultant will speak at a Wisconsin School Boards Association seminar at the Holiday Inn Tomah on Wednesday December 5 the event focuses on management skills and administering the agreement.
Happiness Is . . . program at Freeburg school gym
Freeburg Minnesota a program titled Happiness Is . . . directed by Kristine Kettunen elementary music instructor will be held at the school gym at 8 p.m. Saturday. The dammer notes provide no additional seating or ticketing details.
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Kristine Kettunen
Prairie du Chien Flood Ward Evacuation Plan Gains Support
A $1.84 million Water Resources Development Bill appropriation for Prairie du Chien's flood prone 4th Ward evacuations was endorsed by the Senate Public Works Committee. The plan includes raising or floodproofing villas and relocating about 157 homes and businesses with 48 buildings purchased and demolished and 33 raised. Mayor Alfred W. Winter says city share may top $400,000 and seeks private development and state aid to reduce costs while preserving historic sites.
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Washington
D.C
Prairie du Chien
4Th Ward
Army
Senate Public Works Committee
Senate
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Winter
Army Engineers
Elroy to Air Street Closing for Highway 71 Relocation
Elroy Wisconsin officials discuss closing a block of Second Main Street to allow relocation of Highway 71 from Elroy to Kendall. Project includes railroad crossing changes by Chicago and North Western and detour plans for five homes and local access for milk truck drivers.
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Elroy
Wis
William Anderson
Wisconsin State Highway Department
Wisconsin Rapids
Kendall
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Anderson
Board Drops Plans For Footbridge In Merrillan
Merrillan village board cancels the footbridge project east of Oakwood Falls due to trouble obtaining Department of Natural Resources approval. Funds will be redirected to park improvements.
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Merrillan
Wis
Oakwood
Department of Natural Resources
Burl Hale
Melrose
Dewherst
Clark County
Sewer and Water Committee
Fresh Bros. of
Federal Housing Authority
Lower Lake
Lower Lake Addition
Kenneth Ristow
Ristow
Trappers Hit Jackpot on 140-Trap Line in Sparta
Erwin Brey and grandson Rodney Aney of Sparta checked their 140-trap line and found 11 mink 28 muskrat one opossum and one raccoon. They had trapped over 400 muskrats 10 raccoon 32 mink and one opossum this season begun Nov 10.
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Erwin
Andy) Brey
Rodney Aney
Sparta
Soil Conservation Posts Change in La Crosse County
James B Cropper 28 of Baraboo named by the U S Soil Conservation Service to succeed Jon Caylor as La Crosse County district soil conservationist. Caylor to move to Racine and Kenosha counties beginning December 10 and January 6 for Cropper.
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James B. Cropper
Baraboo
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Jon Caylor
la Crosse
Caylor
Racine
Kenosha
Cropper
Sauk County
LCS
Barron
Iowa Counties
Uw-Stevens
Lancaster
Grant County
Wisconsin Rapids
Oconomowoc High School
University of Wisconsin- Platteville
Marine Corps
la Crosse County
Four Schools To Try New Education Plan in Pilot
VIROQUA Wis Four schools including Viroqua Middle School will join next year in a pilot program for independent guided education at the secondary level. The plan mirrors elementary programs already in nine districts since 1965 and features team teaching in an ungraded setting with objective based curricula and individualized student goals. Viroqua faculty and board members have begun in service training.
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Viroqua
Wis
Richard Rasmussen
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Center For Education Profession
Black River Falls
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau
la Cross
Rasmussen
Viroqua Middle School
Viroqua Board of Education
Multicounty Crime Squad Tracks Rochester Burglars
A 13 county task force in southeastern Minnesota tracked three professional burglars who targeted the Sandy Point Supper Club in Oronoco. Detected by surveillance led by Olmsted County, the squad operates across counties in plainclothes with cross county arrest powers and paid, insured personnel awaiting sentencing for the August–September burglaries.
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Rochester, Minn
Sandy Point
Oronoco
Rochester
Minnesota
Houston
Fillmore
Winona
Jack Fischer
Olmsted County Sheriff's Office
Fischer
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