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Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303 $20,700 Grant to Have an Estimated $1.2 Million Economic Impact Madison – Governor Scott Walker visited Kenosha on Monday to present the Kiwanis Club of Western Kenosha with a JEM Grant worth $20,700 for the Taste of Wisconsin event held in Kenosha from July 29 – 31, 2011. “I am honored to present this grant to the Kiwanis...

Honored at Luncheon Held May 5 at Blue Harbor Resort, Sheboygan MANITOWOC, Wis. — May 6, 2011 — Orion Energy Systems, Inc. (NYSE Amex: OESX), a leading power technology enterprise, was honored to be recognized by Corporate Report Wisconsin as a 2011 Small Business Success Story. Orion Energy Systems was one of five awardees including Impromed, Centare Group, Precision...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 MADISON - Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen along with 49 other state attorneys general and the District of Columbia announced a settlement to resolve allegations of unfair debt collection practices for Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery customer accounts. The settlement affects approximately 3.3 million total consumers in all 50 states and...

Contact: Allan Degner 414.383.3131 adegner@pdr-usa.net Milwaukee, WI – May 9, 2011 - Paul Davis Restoration & Remodeling of Southeast Wisconsin will donate time, labor and materials during the company’s annual Paul Davis Restoring America community service project beginning on Friday, May 13 at 8:00 a.m. and has a construction schedule spanning over the next few weeks. Paul Davis Restoration &...

Contact: Joshua Morby 414.791.9120 Job-creating project will provide 400 jobs in the Wausau area Milwaukee, Wis. – The Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance’s Bio Power Coalition commended the Wisconsin Public Service Commission for approving the We Energies/Domtar Paper Rothschild Biomass Plant. The project, originally announced in 2009, would produce power for approximately 40,000 homes and provide steam to the Domtar paper mill in...

MEDIA CONTACT: Mary Carbine, BID Executive Director, (608) 512-1340, mcarbine@visitdowntownmadison.com Great Shopping Bargains & Fabulous Food MADISON, Wis. (May 9, 2011)—The 2011 Maxwell Street Days Summer Sidewalk Sale will take place on State Street in downtown Madison, Wis., from Friday, July 15 through Sunday, July 17. Hours are Friday-Saturday 8am to 6pm, and Sunday 10am to 5pm. For information...

Media Contact: Lisa Marshall, Public Relations 608/267-3773; lmarshall@travelwisconsin.com MADISON, Wis. (May 9, 2011) – Governor Scott Walker and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele will recognize the power of tourism at a news conference and photo opportunity on Tuesday, May 10 at the Milwaukee County Zoo. It will be an opportunity for Governor Walker and Executive Abele to celebrate the economic impact tourism...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 FOND DU LAC - Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen today announced that his office has resolved a civil environmental prosecution it brought against Stan Johnson and Mark Schultz. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) had asked the Wisconsin Department of...

$10 million expansion to double power and cooling capacity to provide growth For more information, contact: DeAnne Boegli, National Public Relations Manager TDS Telecommunications Corp. 608.664.4428 / deanne.boegli@tdstelecom.com http://www.media.tdstelecom.com MADISON, Wis. (May 9, 2011)—TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®) announces the start of a $10 million data center infrastructure expansion at its VISI data center in Eden Prairie, Minn. The project, slated to begin this spring, will...

CONTACT: Todd Tannenbaum, 608-263-7132, tannenba@cs.wisc.edu; Kerri Catallozzi, 919-754-4268, kcatallo@redhat.com MADISON - Red Hat Inc., the world's largest open-source software company, has given the first Red Hat Cloud Leadership Award to the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and named the CHTC its first Red Hat Center of Excellence Development Partner. Red Hat and UW-Madison have worked...

CONTACT: Van Valaskey, 608-890-3994, veval@tds.net; Jenny Kopach, 630-792-1251, jrkopach@comcast.net MADISON - The public will have many opportunities to experience a massive showcase of hands-on science when the National Science Olympiad Tournament rolls into the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday-Saturday, May 18-21. More than 6,000 students, educators and parents from all 50 states will visit UW-Madison for the 27th annual...

MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Marshall, Wisconsin Department of Tourism 608-267-3773; lmarshall@travelwisconsin.com Noreen Rueckert, Green County Tourism 608-328-1838; tourism@greencounty.org MONROE, Wis. (May 9, 2011) – Lt. Governor Kleefisch presented a $39,550 Destination Marketing grant to representatives from Green County and communities within the county on behalf of the Wisconsin Department of Tourism. The presentation took place in conjunction with National Tourism Week events being held...

Contact: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608/267-9661 MADISON -- The Wisconsin economy is showing signs of recovery and manufacturing is leading the way, according to Department of Commerce Secretary Paul Jadin. “I’m encouraged to see Wisconsin and the nation moving out of the recession and into a growth mode,” Secretary Jadin said. “With the new Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, we’ll...

Contact John Wells 608.225.1913 Free Admission to Oregon and Stoughton Residents Oregon, WI- (Monday, May 9, 2011)- It’s time to wave the green flag on the weekly racing program at Madison International Speedway. The Pepsi Weekly Racing Season Opener presented by Z-104 is scheduled for Sunday, May 22nd and will feature the Rockweiler Insulation Late Models, Ho Chunk Gaming Area Sportsman, Roto...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 9, 2011 – Ann Arbor-based MIR Acquisition, Inc, d/b/a Molecular Imaging Research, Inc (MIR), announced that it has raised $7.0 million in Series A financing co-led by Baird Venture Partners and Arcus Ventures. The funding will support the expansion and commercialization of MIR’s in vivo preclinical imaging capabilities. MIR is a contract research organization (CRO)...