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By WisBusiness Staff Actor and Green Bay native Tony Shalhoub -- who wrote a letter last month asking Gov. Jim Doyle to keep the state’s tax credits for film production in the 2009-2011 budget -- is featured in a new Web video hyping the economic impact of moviemaking. The star of TV's "Monk," along with others who worked on the independent...

Local Experts Thread Fans with Fashion Industry MADISON, Wis. (April 7, 2009) - Wisconsin Fashion Week is a series of events highlighting the artful fusion of business, fashion and design in Wisconsin while celebrating the regular women who wear the clothes. To help Wisconsin Fashion Week continue to grow and succeed, event producer Kristi Moe has established a Council of local...

Media Contact: Joan Collins Publicity (608) 222-2899 April 2009 Doug Porter has been named land services manager at Park Towne Development Corp. Porter, who joined Park Towne in 2001, has been most active representing the firm’s 650 -acre Conservancy Place master-planned community in DeForest. In addition to continuing his work with Conservancy Place, Porter assists with land acquisitions, securing entitlements,...

For additional information, contact: Julie Cole jcole@quarles.com (414) 277-5212 MILWAUKEE, WI (April 7, 2009) – The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP is pleased to announce that Patricia M. Hutter, a partner in the firm’s Corporate Services Practice, has been named to the Milwaukee Ballet board of directors. Hutter will serve a three-year term on the 25-member board....

Contact: 608-836-5575 MADISON – Wisconsin’s retail food prices have fallen by over 3 percent since the end of 2008. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau’s ‘Market Basket’ quarterly survey found the average cost of 20 basic food items totaled $55.85 in the first quarter of 2009. That was a $2.06 decrease from the survey’s average price of $57.91 in the fourth quarter...

CONTACT: Jennifer Bonk Stateline World Trade Association 608.365.8835 info@slwta.org Beloit, WI – Electrol Specialties of South Beloit, IL and Serola Biomechanics, Inc. of Loves Park, IL will receive awards for their exporting expertise at the Stateline World Trade Association (SLWTA) meeting on Thursday evening, April 23, 2009 at the Beloit Inn. Representatives from each company will share the reasons behind their success...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, http://www.uwsp.edu/news The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Treehaven facility has been proposed to join a national coalition of partners who are building a continental-scale ecological observation platform for understanding and forecasting the impacts of climate change, land-use change, and invasive species on ecology. The facility, called the National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc. (NEON), has received...