Emmitt B. Feldner

SHEBOYGAN – The County Board approved a $204.1 million 2025 budget that increases spending but cuts the property tax rate at their Nov. 5 meeting. Thanks to an 8.6 increase in total property values in the county, the county property tax rate will decline by 7.9 percent, to $3.58 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, down from $4.27. For the owner […]

PLYMOUTH – Sargento Cheese will be expanding the Leonard A. Gentine office building on its Persnickety Place campus. The Plan Commission approved the 9,100-square foot addition at their Nov. 7 meeting. The building currently features a one-story bump-out at the front of the building. That would be removed and replaced with a full two-story front that would run the entire […]

ELKHART LAKE – Trustee Terri Knowles reported that the Tourism Commission is hoping to attract some of the 250,000 or so people who are expected to come to Wisconsin next April when Green Bay hosts the 2025 NFL draft. “The feeling is that we're in range to attract people to our lodging,” Knowles told the board. She noted that The

PLYMOUTH – City taxpayers will see a slight increase in the city’s portion of their property tax bill next month. The City Council, at their Nov. 12 meeting, approved an $8,265,384 2025 budget which will require a 1.67 percent increase in the property tax rate to $6.06 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, up from the $5.92 rate in the 2024 […]

PLYMOUTH – The city’s Department of Public Works got its Christmas shopping done early Tuesday. The City Council approved a handful of project and equipment purchases covering everything from parks to city streets, with the money set aside in next year’s budget for capital improvement projects. The approvals included two major repair/upgrade projects at the Outdoor Aquatic Center, engineering for […]

PLYMOUTH – The county’s next boutique hotel could soon be the anchor and centerpiece of the city’s downtown. Members of the Gentine family met with the City Council’s Committee of the Whole Tuesday to present their plans for the historic Laack Block building at the southwest corner of Mill and Stafford streets. “We wondered how we could create a signature […]

PLYMOUTH – The City Council Tuesday approved a list of projects for their financial advisor, Ehlers, dealing with a number of future items. Ehlers will begin the process of issuing bonds for several capital projects next year and will conduct an economic analysis of the LAG Family LLC renovation of the Laack Block building in downtown Plymouth. The pro forma […]

WALDO – It will be another month before the village makes a decision on engineering for Mill Pond dam upgrades. Although indicating a preference to contract with Ayres Associates, which has done the village's annual dam inspections and conducted a study of the dam last year for the village, the Village Board postponed a decision Monday with two board members

SHEBOYGAN – The county spent the last of its American Rescue Plan Act dollars Tuesday. The County Board Tuesday approved $5.95 million worth of one-time projects to complete its spending of $22.4 million in funds received from the federal government as part of the 2021 response to the COVID crisis. “This is the final resolution related to ARPA funds, our […]

ELKHART LAKE – Voters will be electing a new village president next April. Village Administrator/Clerk- Treasurer Jessica Reilly told the Village Board at their meeting Monday that Village President Richard Sadiq has submitted his non-candidacy papers and will not be running for another term next spring. Sadiq has served three terms as president after succeeding the late Alan Rudnick in