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Citizens update city on progress funding community center

Citizens update city on progress funding community center

Citizen volunteers charged with siting a senior citizens-community center in Brodhead updated finance committee members on their progress last week.

 
 

Historical Society sets museum addition dedication for July 28

Historical Society sets museum addition dedication for July 28

Historical Society members invite the public to the dedication of their new building addition Saturday, July 28.

 
 

Long-time fundraising consultant gets panel’s backing

Long-time fundraising consultant gets panel’s backing

By Tony Ends EDITOR A senior consultant to non-profits and governments across Wisconsin for more than 35 years won Brodhead senior/community center committee backing last week. Committee members have met monthly – at times more often – for years to site a center in the city. Seven of those presently […]

 
 

Lessons from soil defended daily, on America’s birthday

SUBMITTED PHOTO The Independent-Register
Tony Ends works soil with a broad fork in a market garden of a village in Guinea, West Africa, earlier this year, while serving a second time with the Peace Corps as a UN field officer with the World Food Programme.

Tony Ends works soil with a broad fork in a market garden of a village in Guinea, West Africa, earlier this year, while serving a second time with the Peace Corps as a UN field officer with the World Food Programme.

 
 

Citizens voice support for school district referendum in fall

Citizens voice support for school district referendum in fall

Brodhead School District’s board of education hosted a second meeting for the public last week regarding finances and a likely referendum in the fall.

 
 

DNR seeks citizen help with local turtle crossings

DNR seeks citizen help with local turtle crossings

Since the project began in 2012, more than 1,300 citizens have reported nearly 3,000 turtle sightings throughout Wisconsin and have identified more than 1,300 turtle road crossing hotspots.

 
 

Hotel study gets first public viewing next Monday

Hotel study gets first public viewing next Monday

The detailed market and community analysis of potential for building and operating a hotel in Brodhead will debut for the public with a presentation from its principle architect.

 
 

City police pursuit of new K-9 unit on steady trail to reality

SUBMITTED PHOTO The Independent-Register
Brodhead Police Chief Chris Hughes receives a check this past
week from fund-raising and donations to pay for a new K9 squad car.
Making the presentation is President of the local Police Association
(and dispatcher) Mary Wells.

Brodhead Police Association President Mary Wells rpresented a check to Police Chief Chris Hughes helping secure the funds needed to make the K9 unit in Brodhead a reality.

 
 

City Council approves Citizen appointments to committees

City Council approves Citizen appointments to committees

City Council members approved 2018-2019 ap-pointments to city commit-tees in their regular meeting last week.

 
 

Decatur Lake sedimentation strikes some as not ‘same-old, same-old’

RYAN BROEGE PHOTO The Independent-Register
Mike and Jennifer Krause say sedimentation is claiming more and more of Decatur Lake, and they worry for its future.

Mike and Jennifer Krause say sedimentation is claiming more and more of Decatur Lake, and they worry for its future.