Wisconsin Soil Board Considers La Farge Lake Dam Project
Vernon County residents and local groups urged support for the La Farge lake and dam as the state soil conservation board, with officials from La Crosse Vernon and Crawford Counties, toured the area. Vosen cited historic floods and projected costs up to 52 million, while noting 75 percent completion and remaining 200 feet of dam. He argued benefits include flood control and tax base restoration amid tax loss to La Farge School District.
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Viroqua
Wis
Wisconsin Board of Soil Conservation Districts
la Farge
Vernon County Teachers College
Robert Vosen
Citizens For the Kickapoo
State Soil Conservation Board
la Crosse
Vernon
Crawford Counties
la Farge Dam
Vosen
Seelyberg
Kickapoo Valley
Soldiers Grove
Monroe
Vernon County
Vernon County Board
Army Corps of Engineers
Washington, D. C
Patrick Lucey
University of Wisconsin Institute For Environmental Studies
Erland Dregne
Crawford County Civil Defense
Bernard Smith
Kickapoo Valley Association
State Board
Assembly
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture
State Senator says Assembly has vendetta against him
Madison Senator Gary Goyke says he removed his name as sponsor on three Senate bills to avoid an Assembly vendetta. He reports fellow senators urged him to drop support after he signed the bills but declines to name the bills or others involved. Goyke also filed a lawsuit against seven Assembly Democrats in the Joint Finance committee.
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Madison
Gary Goyke
D-Oshkosh
Senate
Assembly
Goyke
Assembly Democratic
Nance Committee
Virgil Roberts
Holmen
State Supreme Court
Assembly Democrats
Joint Finance Committee
George Molinaro
D-Kenosha
Midge Miller
Wisconsin
La Crosse Man Guilty of Rape by Crawford County Jury
A Crawford County Circuit Court jury found Steven R. Gill of La Crosse, 23, guilty of rape for an incident December 30 in a Town of Bridgeport mobile home court. The trial began Monday with verdicts delivered at 2:45 p.m. Gill was jailed and to be sent to Central State Hospital, Waupun, for presentence examination. Judge Peter Pappas presided in place of Judge Richard Orton and did not set a sentencing date.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Crawford County
la Crosse
Steven R. Gill
Gill
Bridgeport
Sheriff's Department
Central State Hospital
Waupun
Peter Pappas
Richard Orton
Earle Tourville obituary from Sparta Wisconsin
Earle Tourville 61 of Sparta died Monday October 27 at Desert Hospital Palm Springs California. He was a Mason and an optician in Palm Springs for 19 years. Survived by widow Millie mother Mabel Palm Springs daughter Sandra Hull Anaheim brother Lauren La Crosse and three grandchildren. Services and burial in Palm Springs. Donations to Shrine Crippled Children's Hospital in his name.
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Sparta
Wis
Earle Tourville
Desert Hospital
Palm Springs
Calif
Millie
Mabel
Sandra Hull
Anaheim
Lauren
la Crosse
Shrine Crippled Children’s Hospital
Economic Council Set To Meet In Whitehall
Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council Inc will meet at 8 p m in the old courthouse in Whitehall. Representative Steve Gunderson will speak on State and Federal Resources at the four county annual meeting. The council aids Buffalo Eau Claire Jackson and Trempealeau Counties in fighting poverty.
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Economic Council
Whitehall
Wis
Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council
FOC), Inc
Steve Gunderson
91St Dist
Council
Buffalo
Eau Claire
Jackson
Trempealeau
Maurice Hanson
Onalaska firm seeks permit to discharge pollutants
Empire Silk Screen Co. Inc. seeks a state pollutant discharge elimination permit to release up to 1000 gallons per day of silk screen wash and photo process sinks water into the Black River basin. DNR has tentatively approved. comments due within 30 days from Oct 30. agencies have 90 days. public hearing possible if warranted. application may be inspected in Madison.
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Onalaska
Black River Basin
Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Empire Silk Screen Co. Inc
R.2
Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules search valid in marijuana case
The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that 180 pounds of marijuana found on a farm house third floor during an arrest warrant search were admissible. Officers had discovered marijuana and a scale on the kitchen table and used a three floor search to determine ownership and question occupants.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Dane County
Robert E. O'Brien
Supreme Court
NFO Dissidents Pick Secret Opponent for Staley
Des Moines Iowa AP dissident members of the National Farmers Organization say they selected a candidate to oppose longtime NFO President Oren Lee Staley but will keep the name secret until a Saturday session in Des Moines. James Leach, a former NFO director, notes the committee will convene to advance the oust Staley effort amid prior financial troubles.
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Des Moines, Iowa
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Oren Lee Staley
Rea
James Leach
Atlantic
National Nfo
Committee For the Advancement of Nfo
Des Moines
Staley
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Onalaska Firm
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Coleslaw
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Abers Coleslaw
Ra Alta
Lutheran Hospital
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Devonshire
Jim
Petit
Ieet
Lane Cedar Chest
5Th Ave
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ALCON
Symphony
Crete—Door Metals
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