Proposal could demolish Wonder Bar and Coliseum to make way for mixed-use high rise
Development could start as soon as Sept. 1 on 18-story housing project near the Alliant Energy Center.
April 13, 2021 5:00 PM Hannah Twietmeyer
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A development proposal by the McGrath Property Group would replace Coliseum Bar & Banquet and the Wonder Bar steakhouse with a $40 million, 18-story housing project.
The proposal comes as one of the latest additions to transform the area surrounding the Alliant Energy Center into a “Destination District,” a collaborative effort between the city of Madison and Dane County. The proposed structure would create 291 apartment units, several floors dedicated to 12,500 square feet of commercial space and offices and a three-story parking garage.
GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Spina, Busenbark named hospital foundation trustees Meribeth Busenbark
LARNED Pawnee Valley Community Hospital Foundation announces two new trustees, Meribeth Busenbark and Vicki Spina.
Foundation Director Julie Bugner-Smith said she, along with trustees Laura Smith, Jim Delaney, Janis Yeager, and Jon Skelton, and Administrator Melanie Urban, is thrilled to have such caliber of people as Busenbark and
Spina to continue the mission of the PVCH Foundation and betterment of health-care in the community.
With over 28 years of banking experience, Vicki Spina is an assistant vice president and branch manager of American State Bank and oversees its locations in Larned, Macksville and St. John. Spina was raised in Newark Valley, N.Y., but after living here for 29 years, she and her husband, Charles, consider Larned to be their hometown.
How has COVID-19 altered how local elected officials govern their communities?
Carolyn Muyskens, The Holland Sentinel
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11:06 am UTC Apr. 10, 2021
With COVID-19 forcing local city council and township board meetings online, technology problems have become the norm.Zoom
HOLLAND The Laketown Township Board of Trustees was in the midst of a roll-call for a vote to approve the township s much-discussed budget for the next fiscal year including doubling the township s operating millage when they discovered a township trustee had disappeared from the Zoom meeting. Where s Jim Delaney? asked Supervisor Linda Howell. He took off, responded a member of the public watching on Zoom.
LAKETOWN TWP. In a split 4-1 vote, the Laketown Township board approved next year s township budget, nearly doubling the current operating millage for the township.
The 0.45-mill increase from 0.55 mills to 1 mill amounts to about a $70 increase on the annual tax bill for the average homeowner in Laketown Township. The average taxable value of a Laketown Township home is about $156,000, according to figures presented by Township Manager Al Meshkin during the meeting.
Meshkin proposed the 1-mill tax rate to the board as part of the Fiscal Year 2021-22 budget, which the board held a hearing for and approved Wednesday evening. The township s 2021-22 fiscal year begins April 1.
Concern over anti-social behaviour along canal at Farneyhoogan
Annoyance: ‘We literally have drug distribution points now in front of OPD houses’
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There have been calls for Longford County Council to secure the boundary between Farneyhoogan Estate and the Royal Canal walkway in an effort to tackle anti-social behaviour in the area, which is causing anxiety to residents in the estate.
Bringing a motion before last week’s meeting of Longford Municipal District, Cllr Gerry Warnock explained that the deterioration of the hedgerow between the estate and the canal walk has turned into a “rat run” that has resulted in “an exponential growth in anti-social activity in the area at great annoyance and distress to some of the more vulnerable residents”.