City wastewater treatment plant employee is awarded (Watertown Daily Times) Watertown's wastewater treatment plant laboratory manager Judy Tholen received a service award from the Wisconsin Wastewater Operators Associa-tion.

Storm water utility fee will go up (Watertown Daily Times) Watertown residents and property owners will see another hike in their monthly water bills.

Explosion Lawsuit In Works Against WE Energies, Dorner Inc (WISN 12 Milwaukee) OCONOMOWOC, Wis. -- An Oconomowoc man is suing after an explosion destroyed his rented home and leveled a church. Tim Lemieux is suing Dorner Incorporated and WE Energies for $1 million each after a ruptured gas pipe triggered the April 2008 explosion.

Wisconsin Badgers football: Q&A with linebacker Ryan Flasch (The Capital Times) For University of Wisconsin Badgers senior linebacker Ryan Flasch, it took a redshirt year at the University of Nevada of Las Vegas to convince the Germantown, Wis. native where he truly belonged: at UW-Madison. After sitting out his transfer season as a sophomore, Flasch sustained a leg injury in fall camp and missed the entire 2006 campaign. In 2007, Flasch registered seven total tackles on ...

Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey: UW inks four recruits (Wisconsin State Journal) The Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey team received letters of intent for 2009 from forwards Brianna Decker (Dousman), and Breann Frykas (East St. Paul, Manitoba), defender Saige Pacholok (Edmondton, Alberta) and goaltender Becca Reugsegger (Fairbault, Minn.), coach Mark Johnson announced. "All of them have played at an international level whether it was with Canada or the United States, so I ...

Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey: UW loses another recruit (Wisconsin State Journal) Brock Montpetit was 14 when he made an unofficial recruiting visit to check out the Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey program. He had just turned 16 in June 2006 when the small-town kid from Somerset committed to UW. But when the time came for Montpetit to sign his national letter of intent last week, he called UW coach Mike Eaves with startling news. Montpetit, now 18, isn't coming to UW after ...