By Ryan Whisner The Fort Atkinson City Council Thursday approved a contract with Angus Young Architects of Janesville for architectural design plans and construction bidding documents for a new Department of Public Works campus.The cost for the design of the new DPW campus is $475,000. Payment will be made from the...
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City officials enact snow emergency through Thursday at 8 a.m.
Fort Atkinson city officials have announced that a snow emergency will remain in effect until Thursday at 8 a.m. During a snow emergency, all vehicles must be removed from public streets and alleys, according to the city’s announcement. Residents may park in municipal lots with the exclusion of the lot...
Fort, Whitewater, Jefferson County officials meet to discuss ‘broken’ funding system
City of Fort Atkinson officials Monday hosted a meeting with state, county and other local level officials to discuss efforts through which they might collaborate to provide services. An additional focus of the meeting was to “urge the Wisconsin Legislature to fix the broken system of funding critical local services,” information about...
Fort voters arrive at the polls
By Chris Spangler Fort Atkinson electors were going to the polls Tuesday, Feb. 21, to cast ballots in the state Supreme Court primary. The four-way race to advance to the April election for Wisconsin’s highest court bench was the lone election on Fort Atkinson’s ballot. As of 1:45 p.m., about...
Whitewater: Site eyed for grocery co-op, second business, in ‘newly developed building’
By Kim McDarison The Whitewater Community Development Authority (CDA) last week “voted to engage in the process of acquiring parcels along Jefferson Street, near downtown Whitewater,” for the purpose of partnering with a local developer “with the intention of locating the Whitewater Grocery Co-op on the site along with at least...