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Lake Altoona pollution case ends with significant fines
EAU CLAIRE — A man accused of dumping wastewater into a creek that feeds Lake Altoona saw the all charges dismissed, but didn’t get away with it. Daniel Burns III, Cedarburg, faced four counts of discharging pollutants into waters of the state, a Class U misdemeanor. Prosecutors filed the charges after wardens with the Department of Natural Resources watched him pump liquid out of a defunct landfill and into Sixmile Creek. The landfill was formerly used by Plainwell Tissue for disposal of sludge and ash. ...
Sheboygan's new Postmaster writes letter to the editor about Post Offices as 'a lifeline'
To share your view, submit a letter of 250 words or fewer to news@sheboyganpress.com or send to Editor Brandon Reid at breid@gannett.com. Here is this week's letter to the editor of the Sheboygan Press. See our letters policy below for details about how to share your views. Postal Service plays...
An unknown company is buying hundreds of acres of farmland in the Town of Port Washington
Paul Krauska is frustrated with how “hush hush” everything has been surrounding an unknown company’s pursuit of almost 2,000 acres of mostly farmland in the Town of Port Washington for what residents and officials have been told could be the site of a new semiconductor manufacturing plant.
Sheboygan department store H.C. Prange Co. installed the first escalator in Wisconsin in summer 1936
SHEBOYGAN – The city had a Wisconsin first in the summer of 1936 when the H.C. Prange Co. installed the state's first escalator in the successful department store. It was a spectacular device. Bright metal work on the top sides with a black handrail you held onto when you went up to the second floor. You'd step on a metal step, grab on and the moving stairs would take you up to another floor of shopping bliss. ...
Washington County chapter of Guitars 4 Vets helps veterans cope with PTSD through music
When West Bend veteran Kevin Watter saw how learning and playing the guitar helped save the life of a fellow Marine who was suicidal, Watter thought that Guitars 4 Vets, which helps veterans cope with PTSD through music, could help him, too. Watter's "Marine brother," as Watter calls him, was...
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