Sauk County News

Tom Every has a sculpture in his scrap metal art park south of Baraboo titled "Overkill," which shows a bomb shooting down a smokestack to kill two mosquitoes.

Local resident Tim Deppe helps police officers shepherd an American black bear away from residents after it wandered into the Blackhawk mobile home park Monday afternoon.

The National Weather Service has issued severe weather advisories for southern Wisconsin for Thursday night and Friday morning.

A federal grant will allow Spring Green to buy and remove 28 houses damaged by severe flooding a year ago in the village near the Wisconsin River in Sauk County.

Celia B. Ciaglo, 87, of Reedsburg and formerly of Junction City, died Wednesday, May 27, 2009, at the Sauk County Health Care Center in Reedsburg.

They will gather here in a few weeks to celebrate the rebirth of this village's namesake lake.

Deep within the grassy, rolling confines of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo are three old cemeteries that represent about the only visible reminder of a way of life that disappeared when the farms and homesteads of the great Sauk Prairie were razed to make way for the huge munitions factory.

Susan Gleason ate dinner Wednesday in the center of the universe. Gleason, director of regional assets and metrics for the nonprofit economic development organization Thrive, told about 35 members of the Columbia County Economic Development Corp.

A jury from outside Sauk County will hear the case of a Baraboo man accused of murdering his infant twins.

Nearly a year after heavy rainfall flooded much of southern Wisconsin, officials in Sauk and Columbia counties say some residents still need help.

Two Spring Green men were arrested and charged with various crimes after allegedly stealing cash and cigarettes from a convenience store in Plain, the Sauk County Sheriff's Office reported.

More and more people in Wisconsin are putting their coffee grounds, eggshells and banana peels to good use.

Contact: Paul Dietmann, 608-224-5038, Gary Olson, 608-224-5128 MADISON -- Recognizing signs of stress and depression in farmers will be the topic of two free half-day workshops for agricultural lenders, veterinarians, cooperative representatives, and other farm service providers.

A Merrimac woman faces up to six years in prison on a charge that she ran off with a man's car after spending the night with him.

Ron Brayer recorded history through a camera lens. Weddings, graduations, sporting events, family reunions and circus performers built his Baraboo photography business and made Brayer one of the most well-known people in Sauk County.

Investigators in Baraboo are working to reconstruct an accident that caused fatal injuries to a pedestrian.

A 21-year-old Adams man was injured early Tuesday morning in a one-car crash in Sauk County.

The former village clerk of Rock Springs admitted Monday she embezzled $8,500 from the village over six months, a fact local officials have tried to keep quiet as the flood-ravaged village applies for millions in federal aid.

City of Baraboo Emergency Management in coordination with Sauk County Emergency Management is selling Midland Weather Radios at a reduced price.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson outspent challenger Randy Koschnick 19-to-1 during a recent seven-week period.