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Contact: Tony Hozeny, 608/267-9661 or Susan Noble, Executive Director Vernon Economic Development Association 608-637-5396 or snoble@veda-wi.org MADISON - Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Toman Tool Corporation, Viroqua has been awarded $5,000 from the Department of Commerce (Commerce) through the Business Employees’ Skills Training (BEST) program to provide training in Lean Manufacturing and Cellular Flow through the Northwest Wisconsin...

Contact: The Marcus Corporation Investors: Douglas A. Neis, (414) 905-1100 or Marcus Theatres Media: Carlo W. Petrick, (414) 905-1505 Will be Marcus Theatres’ eleventh UltraScreen auditorium MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Marcus Theatres Corporation, a division of The Marcus Corporation (NYSE:MCS), today announced that its new 70-foot-wide UltraScreen® at the Pickerington Cinema, 1776 Hill Road North, will open December 21, with midnight showings...

CONTACT: John Schaffer, (608) 263-1900 MADISON - Glen A. Skillrud and Winifred Skillrud of San Antonio, Texas, have made gifts to establish what are being called the two best undergraduate scholarships in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. The Glen and Wendy Skillrud Music Scholarships will be awarded to an undergraduate soprano and a pianist starting in...

Contact: University Communications Phone: (608) 262-3571 MADISON - University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders have high praise for the gift of $175 million from John and Tashia Morgridge, which will support need-based financial aid for thousands of talented prospective students in Wisconsin. - From UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley: "The gift announced today from John and Tashia Morgridge is nothing short of magnificent. Supporting...

GM commends the Congress and President for passage of an energy bill. The new fuel economy standards within the bill set a tough, national target that GM will strive to meet. We will focus our engineering and technical resources to attain these standards and we remain hard at work applying the innovation and developing the advanced technologies...

For more information, contact: Mark Osten Director of Business Development, WindConnect® Phone: 608/662-5487 Email: mark.osten@alliantenergyepc.com First utility-scale wind farm in Indiana to be completed in May Madison, Wisconsin – 12.18.2007 – Alliant Energy WindConnect® has been awarded the balance of plant engineering and construction work for the Benton County Wind Farm, the first utility-scale wind farm in Indiana. WindConnect began...

Contact: University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042 After years of planning by students and administrators, months of construction and closed facilities and weeks of moving out then back in, the newly remodeled Dreyfus University Center at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will re-open on Tuesday, January 22, 2008, followed by six weeks of television-themed festivities. All of the Dreyfus University...

Contacts: Media: Richard Secor 262/656-5561 or Investors: Marty Ellen 262/656-6462 Jack D. Michaels to Remain Chairman KENOSHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Snap-on Incorporated (NYSE: SNA), a leading global innovator, manufacturer and marketer of tools, diagnostics and equipment solutions for professional users today announced, consistent with its succession plans, that Nicholas T. Pinchuk, currently president and chief operating officer, has been elected president...

Contacts: Senior Managing Director DAVID B. KELLER, 317-630-3191 dbkeller@hfflp.com or Associate Director, Marketing LAURIE FISH MCDOWELL, 617-338-0990 lmcdowell@hfflp.com INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Indianapolis office of HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) announced today that it secured $71.25 million in financing for a 506,195-square-foot, Class A office building in western suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Working exclusively on behalf of funds managed by Eaton Vance...