Hudson Star Observer

The Hudson Star-Observer was recognized with a first place, General Excellence, among the state's largest community newspapers at the annual Wisconsin Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest annual awards ceremony Friday evening, Feb. 27. The award and others were conferred...

The River Channel, Hudson’s community cable TV station, has recorded interviews with the candidates for the April 7 election. In three separate programs, Mary Claire Potter questioned the two candidates for each of the three council seats up for election. The candidates...

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...

Wisconsin's right-to-work bill will get 24 hours of debate before the state Assembly takes a final vote on Friday morning. GOP Majority Leader Jim Steineke says the debate will begin at 9 a.m. tomorrow, and run no later than 9 a.m. on Friday. Steineke said Democrats wanted 48 hours...

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...

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...