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Town of Pacific resident puts gravel pit shooting range in crosshairs
Fri, 18 May 2012 21:05:56 -0700
People shouldn’t be using the Swan Lake Wildlife Area for target practice, a town of Pacific resident told the Columbia County Board of Supervisors Wednesday — and he wants the county to do so…
Columbia County receives FEMA mitigation planning grant
Tue, 08 May 2012 03:14:42 -0700
Columbia County, like the rest of the state of Wisconsin, is vulnerable to a variety of disasters. Wisconsin has incurred disaster-related damages totaling $3 billion in the last three decades…
New emergency system to be limited in Columbia County
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:56:55 -0700
A new Wisconsin emergency communications network set to launch Monday will have limited connections in Columbia County, Emergency Management Director Pat Beghin said.
Extension to sort through results from county survey
Mon, 07 May 2012 19:36:36 -0700
Results from a University of Wisconsin-Extension survey on Columbia County turned up comments on everything from local foods and big-box retailers to the smell of manure.
Tourism spending up 20 percent in county
Mon, 07 May 2012 19:36:06 -0700
Spending from visitors is up by more than 20 percent in Columbia County, according to the Wisconsin Department of Tourism.
County a leader in tissue donations
Mon, 14 May 2012 20:05:50 -0700
Among Wisconsin’s counties, Columbia is the second-largest source of tissue donations for one of the four tissue banks working in Wisconsin, the foundation’s vice president told the County Boa…
Columbia, Marquette counties get highway money
Fri, 04 May 2012 21:35:46 -0700
Columbia and Marquette counties are each getting state money to help pay for improvements on county trunk highways, officials of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Gov. Scott Walke…
DA dismisses school case
Fri, 11 May 2012 15:16:38 -0700
The Columbia County District Attorney’s Office has decided not to pursue criminal charges in a case of alleged sexual harassment in the city of Wisconsin Dells.
County required to join consortium to receive block housing grants
Sat, 19 May 2012 08:29:29 -0700
Sauk County could lose out on future federal housing money if it does not join a consortium of regional counties to administer certain grant programs.
10 whooping cough cases confirmed in county
Tue, 08 May 2012 22:05:36 -0700
Columbia County hasn’t escaped a statewide uptick in the number of known or suspected cases of pertussis — an outbreak that the county’s health officer, Susan Lorenz, said could be accurately …