Hudson Star Observer

A committee to advise the City Council on issues related to bicycling and pedestrians was established on a 4-3 vote of the council Monday night. Mayor Alan Burchill cast the deciding vote in favor the committee after the council deadlocked with alderpersons Jim Webber, John Hoggatt...

MADISON - Hudson High School wrestlers completed their competition in the 72nd WIAA State Wrestling Tournament Saturday during placing matches at the Kohl Center. Dylan Anderson, 40-4 overall, finished in third place at 170 pounds in Division 1. In fact, the Hudson junior pinned...

By Eric Johnson jophnsoner@hotmail.com The town of Troy will no longer be responsible for zoning administration of the Lower St. Croix Riverway.  At the Feb. 19 meeting, the Town Board approved a moratorium on Chapter 171, the Lower St. Croix Riverway Zoning Ordinance. Chapter...

The year-old St. Croix Bike and Pedestrian Trails Coalition has already established itself as a major player in new recreational-route planning, and now the group wants to add more voices to its work. The advocacy and information-clearinghouse group recently announced a new membership...

Possible changes to the city of Hudson’s animal control ordinance produced a lively exchange at Monday night’s meeting of the City Council. The council’s Public Safety Committee has been working on revisions to Chapter 99 of the City Code since last summer when a citizen...

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Gov. Scott Walker said the way he handled the Madison union protesters in 2011 helped prepare him for dealing with world terrorists. Walker, a potential GOP presidential hopeful, made the remark Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference...

Dave Knoke gave the best acceptance speech I’ve heard at a Hudson Area Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet. I hope the former UW-River Falls linebacker doesn’t mind when I say I wasn’t expecting it from him. He had a team-leading 119 tackles for the Falcons in 1986 and looks...

As school officials look to the future, the board has come up with a concept of “community engagement.” If the last school referendum (which was handily defeated) proved anything, it was that the community felt they were not involved in the process. The public felt that not...

MADISON -- After hearing almost 12 hours of testimony Monday, the Wisconsin Assembly's labor committee sent the right-to-work bill to the full house without the usual endorsement vote. Union opponents dominated the testimony. One sang "Solidarity Forever" at the end of his remarks. Democrats...