Editor's note: the following story has been submitted by the Hoard Historical Museum. For more than 120 years, it has stood as a sentinel over the city of Fort Atkinson. It’s survived bulging walls, leaky tanks and student graffiti, and has been threatened with deconstruction. It has been carefully preserved...
Category: Community
Fort Atkinson Police Department K-9 officer ‘Bolt’ retires
The Fort Atkinson Police Department has announced, with reluctance, the retirement of the community’s four-legged officer, K-9 Bolt, following emergency surgery for an intestinal blockage.Police Chief Adrian Bump said that in May, Bolt began to show signs of health issues and immediately was transported to UW Veterinary Care in Madison,...
‘Art on the Green’ to be held in August
“Art on the Green,” an art fair planned in conjunction with Whitewater’s Maxwell Street Days, will be held in August, according to a recent press release. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled to take place Friday, Aug. 6 and Saturday, Aug. 7, from 10...
Virtual and in-person Rock River basin cleanup planned
The Rock River Coalition, Ball Corp, and River Network are hosting a weeklong, virtual and in-person Rock River basin and Fort Atkinson cleanup event in August. The event, called: “By Water & By Land, Let’s All Lend a Hand,” will take place between Aug. 1 and 7. Activities are as...
Grow Solar community volume purchasing program introduced
By Kim McDarison Several groups -- including the Fort Atkinson-based nonprofit organization the Heart of the City; the Custer, Wis.-based Midwest Renewable Energy Association, and the Waukesha County Green Team -- have collaborated to create the Jefferson/Waukesha Grow Solar program. The program, according to information suppled by the organizers, focuses...