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Outsourcing out for now at new Health Care Center
Found: 9 Hours 31 Minutes ago
Baraboo News Republic - A controversial proposal to outsource jobs at a county-run nursing home is off the table for now, the nursing home's administrator says. The original proposal would have brought in private firms to do the work of union employees in at the Sauk County Health Care Center south of Reedsburg. The Sauk County Board turned down the proposal in February by a close vote. Three months later, in May, the County Board approved a ... ...
Stock scheme that cost local investors $1.4M lands adviser in prison
Found: 9 Hours 33 Minutes ago
Baraboo News Republic - A Baraboo financial adviser whose false statements cost a score of local investors nearly $1.5 million hugged loved ones goodbye and emptied his pockets for an immediate trip to state prison after agreeing to a plea deal and being sentenced Wednesday. In addition to a year in prison with no hope of early release, Royce J. Raymond must stay out of trouble for seven years while under court supervision. Judge Charles Pollex also ... ...
Money for proposed shooting range won't come from '09 budget
Found: 9 Hours 34 Minutes ago
Baraboo News Republic - Sauk County should not ask taxpayers for extra money in 2009 to construct a new shooting range, a committee decided earlier this week. The decision slashed more than $150,000 from the 2009 budget, which is still being deliberated before final action is taken by the Sauk County Board in November. During budget deliberations Monday, county Finance Committee members said the Sauk County Sheriff's Department should try to build the facility with the roughly ... ...
Health Care Center funds won't include much wiggle room
Found: 9 Hours 34 Minutes ago
Baraboo News Republic - The winning bid for construction of a new county-run nursing home fell just within what Sauk County officials budget, leaving little cash available for unanticipated costs. But savings measures worked into the project should help bolster the reserve fund, one official says. The Sauk County Board this week voted to pay a local contractor $12.56 million to construct the facility using new-age building material, insulated concrete. That was a complete reversal of an ... ...
Health Care Center plans reversed
Found: 9 Hours 34 Minutes ago
Baraboo News Republic - After years of discussion and debate, the Sauk County Board voted Tuesday night to award a contract of $12.56 million to build a new county-run nursing home in Reedsburg. The board threw out the bid of a Madison firm to construct the nursing home, making a local firm the only one in the running for the contract. The move followed a letter that attorneys from Kraemer Brothers, LLC, of ... ...
Judge throws out lawsuit vs. sheriff
Found: 9 Hours 38 Minutes ago
Baraboo News Republic - A Sauk County supervisor's request for jail records was too broad, and compiling the documents would have been too cumbersome for the sheriff's department, a judge ruled this week. The 14-page decision filed Thursday threw out a lawsuit against Sauk County Sheriff Randy Stammen. The attorney for supervisor Tom Kriegl of Baraboo, who filed the lawsuit a year ago, wouldn't say if he planned to appeal the decision. But he wouldn't rule it ... ...
Having a blast at S.O.S. Fest
Found: 9 Hours 40 Minutes ago
Baraboo News Republic - Organizer Pat Bowyer said she's hopeful this year's S.O.S. (Save Our Sports, Inc.) Fest will help the group top $100,000 for Baraboo sports over the last four years. An official tally of donations from this weekend's festivities wasn't available Sunday evening. ... ...
DNR urges hunters to submit deer for CWD tests
Found: 9 Hours 40 Minutes ago
Baraboo News Republic - The Devil's Lake State Park area is a frontier for the spread of chronic wasting disease, and state deer management officials are appealing to hunters to allow testing of the animals they shoot locally as part of the effort to track and control the illness. So far, 11 deer with CWD have been found either in the park, or in a nearby area along the Sauk County/Columbia County line, north of Durward's Glen, ... ...
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