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Contact: John Eich, Director, 608.261.1890 MADISON – Amazing things are happening in rural America. People in small towns and rural areas are not only putting their livelihoods on the line to produce our nation’s food, lumber and mining products, they are caretaking America’s vast natural resources for current and future generations....

Minimize the Bite for 2012 and Beyond What: The looming fiscal cliff threatens to boost taxes by more than $500 billion in 2013. Many temporary tax provisions, including the payroll tax cut, are schedule to expire – and 90 percent of Americans may pay more tax as a result. Savant Advisors will discuss expiring provisions from the Bush-Era tax...

For More Information Contact: Dana Brueck 608/266-1221 MADISON — Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a settlement with Manitowoc and Oconto County cheese maker, BelGioioso Cheese, Inc., resolving the State's complaint charging the company with Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit land spreading violations. BelGioioso operates five cheese-making facilities in northeast...

Contact: Scott Pigeon Hoffman Planning, Design & Construction, Inc. | Director of Marketing Phone: 920-380-2175 | Email: spigeon@hoffman.net Hoffman shares building project essentials (Appleton, WI) For business owners, a successful building project starts with understanding how the process works. Terry Ellenbecker of Hoffman Planning, Design & Construction, Inc. in Appleton says there are three...

(Oconomowoc, WI) The Delafield Arts Center is featuring a special exhibit centered on recovery that will run through December 31, 2012. Located at 803 Genesee Street in downtown Delafield, the exhibition – Imagery of a Healing Journey – features a selection of paintings, drawings and sculpture from experiential therapy used in treatment at Rogers Memorial Hospital. Patients with art...

CONTACT: Izabela Szlufarska, 608-265-5878, szlufarska@wisc.edu MADISON - Inspired by phenomena common to both earthquakes and atomic force microscopy, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have learned that chemical reactions between two silicon dioxide surfaces cause the bonds at that interface to "age," or strengthen gradually over time. In researchers' understanding of static friction, it's an advance with staying power. "What happens...

MINNEAPOLIS (Oct. 7, 2012) – FLW announced today that Igloo Products Corp., the nation’s largest cooler manufacturer, has extended their associate sponsorship of FLW for the 2013 season. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Texas-based manufacturer has been in business for...

Contact: Tom Thieding, 608-210-6767 tom.thieding@wedc.org Link to Release: http://inwisconsin/com/blog MADISON, No. 7, 2012 – The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation was recently awarded a $661,087 State Trade and Export Promotion (STEP) grant from the Small Business Administration (SBA). The STEP grant will be used to assist Wisconsin companies to incorporate exporting into their business operations, support trade missions to key...

CONTACT: Tessa Peters, tepeters2@wisc.edu, (970) 412-9489; or William Tracy, wftracy@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2587 MADISON-The story of how Tessa Peters ended up snagging one of the nation's first graduate fellowships in organic plant breeding begins in an unlikely place: the middle of the ocean. After earning a bachelor's degree in physics, she set out as a geophysicist, mapping the ocean floor...