What happened: Eric Adkins resigned as chair of the Leacock Township Planning Commission effective immediately.
Background: Because Adkins has decided to move to a home outside the township, he is no longer eligible to serve on the planning board. State law requires that every board member reside within the township they serve.
Whatâs next: Amos Stoltzfoos, vice chair of the planning commission, expects to serve as interim chairperson until Jan. 1. The township will open its search for a suitable replacement. No likely candidates were named at this time.
Witman Auctioneers Inc., of Manheim, conducted a public sale of real estate and personal property April 17 for the Jay Harold Geib estate at 1014 Lebanon Road, Manheim. A 7.1-acre
Produce auction gives farmers another selling option
PLATTEVILLE, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) The new beginnings were plentiful at this old-school way of commerce.
The broccoli plants were three inches high, flats of pansies and impatiens were waiting to bloom, and hundreds of hanging baskets had yet to see a front porch.
A food trailer was well stocked with fresh, homemade donuts, breakfast sandwiches of egg and bacon and promises of rhubarb pie later in the season.
Even the auctioneer was a rookie. Eugene Hostetler, a farmer from Boscobel, completed auctioneer school last fall in Montana. Friday was his first gig, and it came in the recently finished barn that holds the newly formed Platteville Produce Auction.
PLATTEVILLE â The new beginnings were plentiful at this old-school way of commerce.
The broccoli plants were three inches high, flats of pansies and impatiens were waiting to bloom, and hundreds of hanging baskets had yet to see a front porch.
A food trailer was well stocked with fresh, homemade donuts, breakfast sandwiches of egg and bacon and promises of rhubarb pie later in the season.
Even the auctioneer was a rookie. Eugene Hostetler, a farmer from Boscobel, completed auctioneer school last fall in Montana. Friday was his first gig, and it came in the recently finished barn that holds the newly formed Platteville Produce Auction.