Belleville News

As I closed the house's doors last night, I paused on the porch to listen to a couple of sporadic popping noises as small firecrackers or bottle rockets ignited somewhere off in the distance.

See NPR's Julie Rovner's live blog of President Obama's speech to the American Medical Association.

The Village of Belleville has requested approval from the Department of Natural Resources for sanitary sewer improvements.

There have been tomatoes, asparagus, raspberries, onions and other garden-grown goodies sprouting from the strip of land along McCormick Street in Belleville for some 40 years now.

There's an audible quality to the century-old, wide-board pine flooring that lets visitors know immediately they're inside a historic building.

The Jones County Sheriff's office responded to a report of a motorcyclist in the median of Highway 151 northbound early Friday morning, according to a news release.

After half a century serving Stoughton children, Yahara Elementary will close next month due to the district's declining enrollment - a situation made worse by the decision by many parents to enroll their children in other schools outside of this southern Dane County community.

Buy local for Father's Day Not every dad is a suit-and-tie kind of guy. If he's happiest in the garage or on the construction site, check out the clothes and accessories at Duluth Trading Co.

A 41-year-old rural Belleville woman died Sunday evening in a motorcycle crash. Green County Sheriff chief deputy Jeff Skatrud said that Elaine M. Graber had been driving a 2004 Harley-Davidson east on Highway C near Puddledock Road in the town of Adams when she lost control while turning.

The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is conducting Memorial Day services this weekend with the theme "Duty, Honor, Country - This They Believed." State observances will take place today at 9:30 a.m. at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King, and at 10 a.m. at the Central Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

The facade of what used to be the Washington Theater in downtown Belleville has been fixed up but not as fixed up as it might be in the future.

Eugene D. 'Bud' Kranzuch passed away at his home in Mountain Home Thursday, April 30, 2009.

Sometimes you really can make lemonade from the lemons life gives you. Mark Yung at Krupp Florist in Belleville did.

The word "chouette" en francais means "cute" or "that's great!" Both meanings aptly des-cribe Susan Bakke's women's boutique Chauette tucked in a corner of the Paoli Schoolhouse Shops & Cafe.

Was it child abuse or an undiagnosed medical condition that killed a 3-month-old boy left with a home day-care provider in 2007? Prosecutors say the case against Jennifer Hancock, 38, of Verona, is complex and circumstantial, but evidence will show she was stressed by Lincoln Wilber's constant crying and caused the head injury that took his life.

A fire consumed more fifty acres of parkland on Madison's Southwest Side Friday afternoon.

Job: Owner, Beatnik's at 115 E. Main St. in Belleville and The Ground Floor at 215 E. Main St.

Governor Jim Doyle today announced $1.7 million in Brownfield Site Assessment Grants, jumpstarting economic redevelopment in 29 communities with abandoned or deteriorating properties.

Monday, Feb. 23 2009 @ 3:51PM We receive a lot of press releases from terrible rap bands, nasty booze and really strange events.

Madison, WI. Monday, February 23, 2009 a ' At approximately 1:48 a.m., Dane County Sheriffa TMs Deputies, along with Fire Departments from Belleville, Brooklyn, Fitchburg, New Glarus, Oregon, and Verona, ...