MADISON — In recognition of National Women’s Health Week (Week of May 12), the Tobacco Free Columbia Dane County Coalition (TFCDC) is encouraging women who smoke to quit and reminding them that free help is available.According to the 2012 Wisconsin Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, a fifth of women in Wisconsin currently smoke. Further, 9.7% […]

MADISON — The 2014 Jones-Robinson Scholarship application is now available! This scholarship was created to honor the five children that perished in the Sommerset Circle fire of 1990 in Madison, Wisconsin. The children, who were African-American, came from a low-income single parent household. Following this tragedy, The Sable Flames, Inc., (the African-American Firefighters of the […]

 MADISON —  Foster Funeral Home Community Introduction will be held Sunday, May 18, 2 p.m.Bryan Foster, president and CEO of Foster Funeral & Cremation Service, recently realized his lifelong dream as he opened up his own funeral home earlier this year on Madison’s south side. Foster Funeral and Cremation Service is a one-story brick building […]

Resilience Center Community Health and Wellness Fair:  Building a healthy community by A. David Dahmer The second annual Resilience Center Community Health and Wellness Fair will be held this Saturday, May 10, and is a chance for the community to not only learn about how to live healthy lives, but to learn about all of […]

MADISON — Dane County has hired Jerome Dillard to serve as its new Jail Re-entry Coordinator, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced May 5.  Parisi included the creation of the new position, located in the county’s Department of Human Services, in his 2014 budget to better connect individuals transitioning from the criminal justice system back […]

MADISON — A retirement party was held at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center May 1 for Wanda Fullmore, who has worked in City Hall for five different mayors —– Paul Soglin, Joe Sensenbrenner, Joel Skornicka, Sue Bauman, and Dave Cieslewicz. Since 1975, Fullmore was the first person you'd see or talk to if […]

By Dane County Media  MADISON —  Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, who was overwhelmingly elected to a second term in 2010 with 71% of the vote, has announced he is seeking re-election this November 2014.“Working together, we’ve improved public safety, cracked down on drunken driving, and eliminated overcrowding in the jail,” Mahoney said. “But there […]