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Now that every property has been assessed for a cement road for which costs that have been rising significantly within the last five years, the Kimberly Village Board has been exploring options for reducing assessments to property owners in the future and took their preferred plan — a transportation assessment reduction fee — to residents in a s

The Kimberly Village Board at a recent meeting received a draft copy of a $17,473,086 five-year capital improvement program beginning in 2021. Board members were to vote on the plan at the Aug. 3 meeting.

To expedite and assure consistency to decisions, the Harrison Village Board at a recent meeting

removed the village board from authorizing the placement of a fence in a storm sewer or drainage easement with underground infrastructure and gave the authority to the zoning administrator, with input from the public works department.

The Kaukauna Elks Club feels so strongly about education that they just could not cancel its 56th annual Top 10 banquet.

A change order relating to two driveways and downspout connections on Tree Line Court was approved by the Buchanan Town Board at a recent meeting.

The Combined Locks Village Board passed a resolution at a recent meeting endorsing the Outagamie County Board’s resolution waiving interest on postponed property tax installment payments due after April 1 until Oct. 1, 2020.

Golden Way resident concerns relating to the clearance of ditches along their road brought the project to a standstill and a contentious discussion to a recent special meeting of the Harrison Village Board.

After plenty of discussion, the Kaukauna school board at last week’s meeting approved expanding the youth advocate position that ran as a pilot position at Victor Haen School the second semester of the past school year to all of the district’s elementary schools.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was in town a few weeks ago. There wasn’t anyone in trouble with the law, but they were here to help people whose lives are troubled.

Appropriately on the night before France celebrated Bastille Day, Sherwood offered a take on the classic Charles Dickens novel of those revolutionary times, “A Tale of Two Cities.”

With apologies to Dickens, the long July 13 edition of the Sherwood Village Board might easily have been called “A Tale of Two Golf Courses.”