Four Dane County cities will receive a combined total of over $600,000 to help clean area lakes as a part of the Urban Water Quality Grant Program, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced last week. Madison, Fitchburg, Sun Prairie and Monona will receive the grants for five projects.
Madison officials announced Thursday the city is offering local businesses a unique opportunity to reinvest in themselves.
Former Wisconsin running back Montee Ball was arrested Friday morning on tentative charges of substantial battery, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. According to the State Journal's report, Ball was arrested at the Hampton Hotel and Suites on 440 West Johnson Street in Madison after police were called to the hotel early Friday morning.
An award-winning pair of father-son architects spoke about their work with Tiny Houses at Monona Terrace Thursday as a part of the Wright Design Series. Bill Yudchitz, who is based in Stevens Point with Revelations Architects, and his son Dan, who works at HGA in St. Paul, focused on several of their projects, including the EDGE project. EDGE stands for Experimental Dwelling for a Greener Environment.
A Madison artist will participate in a three-week sailing expedition around the Arctic to create works of the polar environment and call attention to global warming.
A woman in her early 20s and employee of the Metro Market on the east side was killed in a shooting Tuesday night, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. She was shot in a parking lot on the 6000 block of Cottage Grove Road around 8 p.m.
More than 2,500 ash trees were removed during 2015 in accordance with Madison’s adopted response plan to the emerald ash borer, according to a Common Council meeting Tuesday night. The Emerald Ash Borer Task Force updated Madison Common Council with a presentation on the response plan to the invasive beetle species that has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees in North America.
The Madison Police Department arrested 22-year-old John M. Berrios, Monday at an AT&T store for attempting to purchase $3,000 worth of merchandise with fake identification, according to an incident report.
Housing sales in Madison increased 13 percent in 2015, according to a Stark Company Realtors report: There were 7,935 residential sales in 2015, the highest number in 10 years.
A Madison resident was not seriously injured after being struck by a hit-and-run driver at the intersection of West Johnson and North Bassett streets early Saturday morning.
Hazing coyotes to ensure they keep their distance is the subject of a new video that was released by Public Health Madison & Dane County last Wednesday. The three minute clip, titled “How to Haze a Coyote”, teaches viewers how to haze, or scare, the coyotes away to make them feel uncomfortable in urban neighborhoods. “Coyotes in urban areas are not a new problem, and this video gives some concrete solutions for how we can safely co-exist with them,” said John Hausbeck, PHMDC Animal Services supervisor, in a city press release. The video comes as PHMDC has received reports of coyote attacks in Madison and Dane County.
A 36-year-old man allegedly crashed his car into a traffic signal at the corner of East Washington and North Ingersoll before driving away Saturday night, according to a Madison incident report. Joshua Reed is being charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, operating while suspended and hit-and-run.
A traffic stop last week resulted in the arrest of a primary suspect of a drug investigation that has been on-going since November. Horatio T.
A sexual assault allegedly occurred between Jan. 22 and Jan. 24 in a UW-Madison residence hall. The victim reported being at the Red Shed bar and talking to an unidentified man.
The City of Madison Engineering Division announced Wednesday it is seeking participants for a six-month training program to prepare them for jobs in the solar energy industry.
Two incidents add to a growing trend of car thefts in the Madison area. Sometime Monday night, thieves entered two unlocked cars on the 4800 block of Marathon Dr, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. Most of the crimes of this nature have been occurring to unlocked vehicles during the evening.
The Vending Oversight Committee met at the Dane County Municipal Building Wednesday evening to amend a series of licensing fees ordinances for downtown street vendors. The first series of amended ordinances, which passed unanimously, creates what is known as an Umbrella Basic Street Vendor License, and gives vending businesses the option to register an unlimited number of workers with city government for $450 per year. According to District 4 Alder and amendment sponsor Mike Verveer, the current ordinance requires a license fee be paid for any worker interacting with the public, whether it be handling cash or delivering food. As stated in the ordinance’s legislative draft, the license fee is currently $150 per year on top of any necessary specialty licenses, which includes food vending and arts and crafts. According to Verveer, the new amendment gives vendors the option to pay one universal fee to cover all workers, instead of requiring separate licenses. In addition to the umbrella amendment, the committee unanimously voted to increase a series of street vending fees. The vending fees, according to Verveer, serve a variety of purposes including “funding to the Public Health Department for important health inspections [as well as] funding for downtown programming.” The amendments to this ordinance would increase fees for vendors near State Street and Capitol Square from an annual $850 to $1000.
Madison’s rush to build apartments has closed sidewalks, infused the air with construction noises and woven detours throughout downtown.
Madhatter Bar will reopen under the ownership of Susan McKinney after closing for a couple weeks due to an alcohol license suspension. “I’m excited to get going again,” McKinney said.
Total Madison Police Department traffic citations through the third quarter of 2015 increased compared to 2014, partially thanks to continued Department of Transportation grant initiatives. MPD Lieutenant Trevor Knight spoke to the Pedestrian, Bicycle and Motor Vehicle Commission Tuesday evening about the Third Quarter Traffic Enforcement Activity Report. The report showed there were 6,946 citations issued in the third quarter, an increase from the second quarter’s 4,943. Of those, 1,336 citations and 375 warnings came from DOT Bureau of Transportation Safety grant initiatives.
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