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SOUTH RANGE, WI -- USDA Rural Development, in conjunction with MSA Professional Services and Maki & Overom Law Firm, are holding a ground breaking event here for Parkland Sanitary District’s new wastewater collection system. The project includes a pressure sewer, lift stations, and holding basin to serve this un-sewered community. A wastewater collection system will be constructed that connects...

For additional information, contact: Julie Cole jcole@quarles.com (414) 277-5212 MILWAUKEE, Wis. (April 15, 2010) — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP is pleased to announce that James J. Chiolino, an associate in the Firm's Madison office, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Dane County. Chiolino practices in the Firm's...

For More Information Contact: Joshua Morby, josh.morby@miron-construction.com 414.791.9120 Board approves $10.25 million for new village campus Mt. Pleasant, Wis. – The Mount Pleasant Village Board on Monday approved $10.25 million in funding for a new village campus project, the contract for which has been awarded to Miron Construction Co., Inc. The project will include a new village hall and a new police station, and...

Contact: Joshua Morby 414.791.9120 Study shows state would lose over 13,000 jobs, $2.4 billion within 3 years MILWAUKEE – With a federal tariff on foreign-subsidized ethanol set to expire at the end of this year, a recent study by the University of Missouri shows that the economic impact for the state of Wisconsin would be devastating. Within three years, Wisconsin would...

Earth Day Dedication Set for April 22, 2010 Jackson, WI - 112 solar panels on 7 trackers will go on-line on Thursday April 22 to help power Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School. As the nation observes Earth Day 2010, Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School is proud to unveil the second phase of its aggressive Solar Energy program. The "Let the...

CONTACT: Karin Borgh, (608) 277-2508, karin.borgh@btci.org MADISON - The fifth annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium, called "The Road to Stem Cell Applications: Bioprocessing, Safety and Preclinical Evaluation," will be held on Wednesday, April 21 just outside of Madison. World leaders in stem cell research will address key hurdles to stem cell therapeutics in clinical and commercial applications. This public symposium is co-coordinated...

Media Contact: Steve Schultz (608) 458-3285 Average residential customer’s natural gas bill down 20% compared to ’08-’09 winter MADISON, WI – April 15, 2010 – Lower natural gas prices and some warmer weather across central and southern Wisconsin translated into a 20 percent savings for Alliant Energy subsidiary Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL) natural gas customers for the recently...

CONTACT: Pam Kreeger, (608) 890-2915, kreeger@wisc.edu MADISON - An intricate biochemical messaging network, the endocrine system enables human bodies to grow and function properly throughout their lives. Yet, in everything from children's toys and household products to food, agricultural land and our own lawns, humans daily encounter hundreds of natural and synthetic chemicals. Some of these compounds can interfere with the...

PRESS CONTACT: Chris Thorne 202.545.4000 cthorne@growthenergy.org Growth Energy: Maintain the Tariff on Foreign-Subsidized Ethanol WASHINGTON, DC – A University of Missouri study shows that Wisconsin would suffer significant job losses and a severe decline in economic activity if the tariff on foreign-subsidized ethanol is allowed to lapse at the end of the year. The University of Missouri analysis found that Wisconsin would see...

MADISON - Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, one of the last people to walk on the moon, will present a forceful case for manned space exploration in a talk at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, April 19. The talk comes several months after the Obama administration proposed to cancel the Constellation Program, which was developing hardware and systems...

MILWAUKEE – University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) alumna Raquel Rutledge has won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for a series of articles she wrote for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealing fraud in Wisconsin’s child-care subsidy program. Rutledge’s series, “Cashing In on Kids,” exposed mismanagement of the state’s taxpayer-subsidized child-care system that left it vulnerable to fraud and criminal activity....

Cudahy, Wis. – Jared Pelski, a sales and marketing veteran with experience across multiple business segments, has joined Pantheon BC as a senior adviser. Pelski will advise Pantheon BC clients on strategies to generate more revenue via improved sales planning and processes. In addition to providing sales and negotiation skills training, he counsels about pricing products and services to match...

CONTACT: John Dipko, Communications Director, 608-266-6753 On the Web: http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/newsreleases/2010/100415_march_jobs_unemployment_rates.pdf Wisconsin adding manufacturing jobs, further signaling economic recovery MADISON – Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Roberta Gassman announced today that Wisconsin added manufacturing jobs in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, further evidence of a slow, but steady economic recovery. Current employment statistics show a gain of 2,500 manufacturing jobs in...

Contact: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle announced today the appointment of Aaron Olver as the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, effective Monday, April 19, 2010. Olver, the department’s current Deputy Secretary, has been an integral part of the agency’s management team since 2003. “Aaron Olver has been a key leader at the...

CONTACT: John Valley, valley@geology.wisc.edu, (608) 263-5659; Noriko Kita, noriko@geology.wisc.edu, (608) 262-7118 or (608) 265-9528 MADISON - Researchers in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geoscience are making a plea for anyone finding pieces of the meteorite that blazed through the skies of southern Wisconsin last night (Thursday April 14) to bring them to the department for possible analysis. It is...