Sauk County News Archives

Aug. 29, 2009 12:52 p.m. A Wisconsin prison inmate serving time for raping and killing a woman in Sauk County in 1978 has pleaded not guilty in Arizona after being charged with killing a woman there in 1973.

The Sauk County Sheriff's Department and the Baraboo Fire Department have completed the investigation into the fire that heavily damaged a two family dwelling at 750 West Pine Street in the Village of West Baraboo on Friday, August 21, 2009.

A man and a 5-year-old boy were injured in a fire Friday night that gutted a duplex-style building at America's Best Value Inn in West Baraboo, the Sauk County Sheriff's Department said.

Upcycling embraces the idea of making something new out of waste materials. Many artists have embraced the concept because trash is a free building material that comes in bulk, often in various colors, and at no cost to the environment.

A local emergency manager is asking the state to fork it over. Sauk and Columbia Counties joined forces after last year's flood to help people get their lives back in order.

Men posing as police officers searched a home in Sauk County. The sheriff's department said two white men went to a home in the Town of Dellona, near Baraboo, on Friday night.