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Contacts: Mark Holey, Mark_holey@fws.gov, 920-866-1760 Ashley Spratt, Ashley_spratt@fws.gov, 612-713-5314 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is inviting all interested and eligible entities to submit proposals, including those for basin-wide or large scale regional projects, for the restoration of Great Lakes fish and wildlife resources, to be funded under the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act (GLFWRA). Supported in...

Contact: Jane Larson (608) 224-5005 MADISON--Pesticide mixers, loaders, applicators and ag facility operators are reminded to check their mixing and loading pads. If the pads are made of asphalt, this is the last growing season that they can be used, say officials with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Revisions to Wisconsin’s fertilizer and bulk storage rules require...

CONTACT DeAnne Boegli TDS Telecommunications Corp. deanne.boegli@tdstelecom.com 608-664-4428/ 608-225-2472 MADISON, Wis. (Dec. 1, 2009) – TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®), a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. , announced today that it has acquired Union Telephone Company, Inc., a privately held telecommunications company in Farmington, N.H. The transaction includes approximately 8,500 access line equivalents, covering 150 square miles in rural, eastern New Hampshire. “We look...

Learn the ins and outs of the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest from past category winners and a three-time judge at the Dec. 10 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network in Brookfield. The meeting will be held at Brookfield Suites Hotel and Convention Center, 1200 S. Moorland Road, just off I-94 in Brookfield. Registration and networking begins at 11:30 a.m.,...

CONTACT: Mark C. Rose, CEO, Discover Mediaworks, Inc., (715) 477-1500 MADISON and EAGLE RIVER – A coalition of organizations helped create and air an episode of Into the Outdoors, a popular children’s educational television series broadcast throughout Wisconsin. Now that same episode has won an Emmy award – television’s highest honor – from the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National...

MADISON – Hospices often face a great deal of regulatory scrutiny with the potential for high legal costs. Over the last 15 years, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (Reinhart) has developed a series of toolkits to help hospices handle typical legal issues while keeping legal costs under control. The popular toolkits are designed to give hospices the essential information and...

Contact: Carl Rainey 608-224-5139 MADISON -- The annual Wisconsin Local Food Summit and Midwest Value Added Agriculture Conference will be held jointly at the Ramada Convention Center in Eau Claire Jan. 21-22. This year a new feature, the Value Added Agriculture College, has been added on the day before the summit and conference. The three events offer...

CONTACT: Mark Mueller, mark.mueller@housing.wisc.edu, 608-890-1429; Michael Kinderman, mike.kinderman@housing.wisc.edu, 608-262-5008 MADISON - The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of University Housing has cooked up the latest in energy savings. Nearly three months ago, officials installed a boiler in Gordon Commons that uses spent cooking oil as an energy source. Funded in part by a federal grant of nearly $25,000 from the Wisconsin...

CONTACT: Nate Fillmore, nathanae@cs.wisc.edu, 608-262-6600; Xiaojin Zhu, jerryzhu@cs.wisc.edu, 608-890-0129 MADISON - The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer Sciences will host local high-school and middle-school participants in the 2010 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) open competition. On Thursday, Feb. 4, analytically minded high-school and middle-school students will gather at more than 100 host sites around the United States to...

Media Contact: Scott Reigstad (608) 458-3145 Up to $25,000 will be awarded to students throughout Alliant Energy communities MADISON, WI – December 1, 2009 – The Alliant Energy Foundation is offering scholarships to recognize outstanding community leadership in young people and help first-time college students attain their academic goals. Up to 25 $1,000 scholarships will be awarded in the fall...

MANITOWOC, Wis. -- Orion Energy Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OESX) has been named to the Investors’ Circle 20, a list recognizing companies that achieve environmental, social and financial success. Orion ranked No. 3 on the list, compiled by Investors’ Circle, the United States’ oldest and largest national angel investing group. “These companies stand as shining examples of the potential of social enterprise,...

Media Contact: Sada Kempf, Senior Marketing Associate (920) 232-2230 Sada.Kempf@cliftoncpa.com A FREE WEBINAR FOR CFO’S, PLAN ADMINISTRATORS, AND HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS OSHKOSH, Wis. (December 1, 2009) – "Employee Benefits Update: Two Challenges, Two Solutions for 2010" is the title of a free online Webinar to be presented by Clifton Gunderson – ranked as one of the nation’s largest certified public accounting and consulting...

Contact: Tom Bernd Marketing and Communications Manager DeWitt Ross & Stevens, S.C. 608-252-9356 tsb@dewittross.com MADISON/MILWAUKEE (December 1, 2009) The prestigious national publication The Best Lawyers in America® has named one-third of the lawyers at DeWitt Ross & Stevens—31—to its Best Lawyers list for 2010.   DeWitt Ross & Stevens is Madison’s largest full-service law firm with offices in Madison and Metro Milwaukee. Selected by peers, the...

Elm Grove, Wis. – West Grove Clinic, LLC, has named Selahattin Kurter, M.D., a well-known board-certified psychiatrist and addictionologist, as its Medical Director. Dr. Kurter will direct and oversee the clinic’s intensive outpatient addiction program, and supervise all patient treatment requiring the involvement of a medical doctor. He has been on staff at West Grove Clinic, LLC, since July 2008. “Dr....

Contact: Peter Thomas (414) 615-4866 pathomas@metlife.com DE PERE, WI, DECEMBER 1 – MetLife Greater Wisconsin is pleased to announce that Shannon Elmer has joined the firm as a Financial Services Representative. Elmer is a registered representative of MetLife, and he has worked in the financial services industry for seven years. Greater Wisconsin, an office of MetLife,...