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Top Story
Undocumented immigrants are the vital to keeping Wisconsin dairies running [2] 365 days a year.
Education
High school students in several Dane County schools can take a nursing assistant class [3] and the certification test through a school program. In the younger grades, enrollment in 4K program [4] is increasing and diversifying, but still about 20 percent of graduates attend kindergarten in another district.
Development
Judge Doyle Square development will likely include a $1 million biking center [5], complete with a mechanic and a bike washing station. Several businesses and homes [6] will be repairing and rebuilding in the next week after a rare October tornado touched down on the East Side. To monitor a toxic plume creeping from the Madison-Kipp site toward a water supply well [7], a sentinel well will be installed.
Community
A workshop asks neighborhood leaders [8] to be part of violence mitigation. The president of Dane County Boys and Girls Club [9] continues to ask that municipalities continue funding nonprofits. And, a new children’s book about a Madison tech employee [10] who is also a mom riffs on 1950s artwork that expected mothers to be housewives.
