Too cold to camp?; Joint Finance pulls UW funding increase; Budget committee endorses collecting DNA from suspects; more state news

Wisconsin News
It got down to 27 degrees in northern Wisconsin this morning, but somewhat warmer temps are expected for the weekend. Lawmakers rejected a proposed funding increase, taking their anger out on the UW for imposing maximum tuition increases for six straight years while quietly sitting on $650 million in cash reserves.

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Police say woman may have attempted to entice children

The Hudson Police Department is asking people to be on the lookout for a woman who approached three 11-year-old children in a suspicious manner as they were walking home from E.P. Rock Elementary School at about 3:50 p.m. Wednesday, May 22.

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Village Inn patrons send supplies to Oklahoma tornado victims

Leigh and Dianne Halvorsen needed to rent a moving van to haul all of the donated bottled water, food and supplies they collected at their North Hudson bar and restaurant. They leave Thursday night for Moore, Okla.

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I-94/Carmichael interchange work begins after Memorial Day

Project expected to last approximately five weeks. Exit ramps and turn lanes will be repaired.

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Memorial Day observances set in Hudson, area

Memorial Day observances are scheduled Monday in the Hudson area at St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery at 9 a.m. and Willow River Cemetery at 10:15. Additional observances are scheduled in Afton, Lakeland and Bayport. The local presentations are sponsored by American Legion Post 50 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2115.

Memorial Day is for families, too, says retired chaplain

The reason for Memorial Day certainly is to honor the memories of all those who have given their lives in the nation’s wars and military campaigns, says retired Chaplain Lt. Col. Lane Stockeland. “And you honor and remember the family of that military member," he adds.

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Another HSD administrator resigns

Hudson School District’s Director of Student Services, Cory McIntyre, submitted his letter of resignation on May 16 after getting a better offer from a Twin Cities school district.

Update: City Council meeting rescheduled to Thursday night

The Hudson City Council meeting originally set for Monday evening, May 20, has been rescheduled to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23.

Heroin in Hudson: one family's story

It is a story this Hudson family never thought they would be telling -- the addiction of their son to heroin. But what they have learned over the past nine months has convinced them that their experience is just another case of what is becoming an epidemic for middle class America.

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After 21 years, Judy Meincke retires -- sort of

Judy Meincke began her teaching career in Hudson in 1976. That very first year after graduating from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, she took a job as a kindergarten teacher at the then Fourth Street School, now the site of Willow River Elementary.

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Neil Paulson chose technology over farming

A couple of hard winters on the family dairy farm and Neil Paulson decided to pursue another career. The epiphany came at a particularly severe moment. “I was running a manure spreader and freezing and I thought there has to be a better way than this.”

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Late spring, more walleyes prompt lawmaker to back off funding threat affecting tribes; Milwaukee falls to 30th largest U.S. city; more state briefs

Wisconsin News
Tensions between six Chippewa tribes and the DNR are expected to ease a bit after a lawmaker backed off his threat to block state funding for a cultural center in the wake of higher spearing quotas. Also, stories about how many wolves may be killed next year, the still-unexplained death of a 12-year-old, a gold-broker being sent to prison and new U.S.Census figures.

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Measure to require more job efforts from food stamp recipients advances; fallen FBI agent with Wisconsin link remembered; more state news

Wisconsin News
Joint Finance committee members Tuesday limited a provision in Gov. Scott Walker's budget to sell public property and advanced rules to incent unemployed citizens getting food assistance to work harder at finding a job. Also, Weather Service records compare the Moore, OK. tornado to epic twisters that have hit Wisconsin and a story about two FBI agents killed in a training exercise last week -- one of whom started his career in Milwaukee.

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Our View: Area is quickly becoming tourist destination

Opinion
Figures recently released showed some astounding numbers when it comes to local tourism. According to the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, 2012 traveler spending in St. Croix County increased 8.87 percent to $81 million!

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Guest view: Board members have access to district records

Opinion
Additionally, this policy allows for printing and retrieval fees of such records to be waived for a board member if the records requested are necessary for the proper performance of the board member’s official duties and can be made available through reasonable expenditures of staff time and other resources.

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Raiders claim first conference baseball title in 34 years

The Hudson Raider baseball team clinched its first conference championship since 1979 Tuesday, May 21, by sweeping a doubleheader from Eau Claire North, 4-2 and 5-3, at Eau Claire’s Carson Park. Hudson finished the season all alone in first place in the Big Rivers Conference with a record of 11-1.

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Rodgers says Packers should retire Favre’s No. 4

Wisconsin Sports
It will be at least three years before Brett Favre joins the Pro Football Hall of Fame. By then, Aaron Rodgers says he’d like to see the Green Bay Packers retire Favre’s No. 4.