Dutch’s Auto Service Remains Dedicated To Their Customers As Much As The Cars Close Close
For ten years Dutch’s Auto Service has been changing oil, replacing brakes and doing everything else under the hood for their customers. Located on North Sherman Avenue on Madison’s northeast side, Dutch’s is equipped to service 5 vehicles at a time but helping customers is their number one priority. Dutch’s is co-owned and operated by Nan Mortensen and Crystal Rossman.
Mortensen stressed how transparency and helping customers understand repairs has remained their focus over the decade.
“One of our drivers is transparency in the auto repair process. Why does this have to be done? Why does this cost so much? Why are we sourcing one part over another part? Say we can buy this from the dealership, we absolutely have to have a dealership part or can we buy this at an aftermarket parts store? So just trying to help the consumer understand the process of repairing the car,” Mort
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Great cities have great bookstores. San Francisco’s City Lights, Washington, D.C.’s Kramers, Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Co., Dublin’s Winding Stair Bookshop, Porto, Portugal’s Livraria Lello & Irmão, to name just a handful of the dozens I’ve sought out over the years. All are indispensable urban assets that make a place memorable. I’ve spent many hours in all of them learning as much about the cities in which they are located as the literary wonders awaiting within each. Thus it made me quite happy to learn A Room of One’s Own, one of the stores that make Madison a book-lover’s paradise, was moving from its current downtown location on West Gorham Street, to a new location in the Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara Neighborhood.
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St. Patrick goes takeout, as does the Shabbat meal
The Coopers Tavern
Cottage pie with lamb is on the St. Patrick s Day menu at The Cooper s Tavern, joining corned beef and cabbage and bangers and mash.
I donât suppose any of us will forget last March 17, a dismal day in the annals of drinking and dining and the edge of the cliff as taverns and restaurants began to shut down.
This year, things are looking up. As you might expect, Irish food will be front and center on the March 17 menu at
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An Evanston man has been extradited from Wisconsin to face charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Dyrek Coleman on Jan. 19 at a Skokie hotel. (Google Maps)
SKOKIE, IL The Evanston man charged with the first-degree murder of another Evanston resident in last month s fatal hotel shooting was extradited from Wisconsin Tuesday before being ordered held without bail at an initial court appearance Thursday in Skokie.
Patrick Jenkins, 24, of the 900 block of North Sherman Avenue, was arrested on Feb. 1 in Milwaukee by a U.S. Marshals Service task force in connection with the Jan. 19 homicide of 34-year-old Dyrek Coleman at the Hampton Inn and Suites Chicago North Shore/Skokie at 5201 Old Orchard Road.
Eric Hovde behind âSave Madisonâ billboards
Progressive Dane alders targeted for stance on police funding
Eric Hovde owns several commercial and residential properties in downtown Madison.
Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde says he saw âcrime escalatingâ in Madison and decided to do something about it. Just not publicly.
This summer the downtown Madison property owner quietly spearheaded an effort, dubbed âSave Madison,â aimed at alders who, he claims, want to âdefund the police.âÂ
âIn the last few years, public safety has really declined. Particularly in this last year, rather meaningfully so,â Hovde tells
Isthmus. âThe council has done nothing but attack the police. I mean, how many oversight boards do we need? And at the same time this is happening, weâve had an 80 percent increase in shootings.â (This is a reference to police data on incidents of âshots fired,â not individuals who