Courier Press

Political newcomers Mara Hird and Kathleen Schwartz will face off in the April 3 spring election to the Wauzeka-Steuben School Board. The two women earned the right to contest one another for the seat by receiving more votes than incumbent and board president Bill Marfilius in the Feb. 20 primary. 

Hird is a lifelong district resident and People’s State Bank consumer loan officer in Wauzeka. She is married with two young children.

Schwartz has lived 10 years in the district and is a De Soto Middle School teacher. She is married with two adult children.

During the early afternoon hours of March 19, the Boscobel Fire Department and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resourses were dispatched to a wildfire on a hillside near 23600 Byers Road in the township of Marietta, Crawford County. 

As fire personnel attempted to extinguish the fire, they observed items they deemed suspicious and possibly associated with the manufacturing and use of illegal narcotics.

The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office, along with a Wisconsin DNR conservation warden, began investigating the scene. While doing so, they noticed approximately 10 live and growing marijuana plants in the front window of the above address.

On March 28, at 4:48 a.m., the Crawford County Communications Center received a report of a fire at Waste Management, 62949 Vineyard Road, in the township of Bridgeport.

It was determined that a large pile of garbage was on fire inside a building referred to as the transfer station. The extent of the damage caused to the building has not been determined at this time. However, the Waste Management office building was not damaged. There were no injuries as a result of this incident. 

Assisting on scene were the Bridgeport Fire Department, Prairie du Chien Fire Department, Tri-State Regional EMS and the Prairie du Chien Police Department.

By Correne Martin

The Highway 27 road construction project, from Prairie du Chien through Eastman, will begin April 3 and end around Nov. 21, according to information shared at a Monday evening meeting at the Salem United Methodist Church hall in Eastman. 

Around 45 people attended to hear a summary of the project and to ask questions of the officials from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and contractors The Kraemer Company and H. James & Sons. 

The work will start April 3 with milling in the area of Cipra Road, nearest Prairie du Chien. Then it will continue linearly from the south to the north, all the way to East Meadow Lane in Eastman.