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Hudson teachers get ‘Excellence' awards

Three educators were presented Star Excellence Awards from the Education Foundation of Hudson during the 2012 Senior Scholarship Night at Hudson High School Wednesday, May 16. The winners were John Amann, Nichole Benson and David Gorman.

• Educators honored

Neumann has hopes of winning Senate seat

Mark Neumann, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Herb Kohl, visited Hudson last week to tell his message to area voters.

• Mark Neumann and his wife, Sue in Hudson

UPDATE: Final numbers in for St. Croix and Pierce counties

Final numbers are in for St. Croix and Pierce counties in Tuesday's primary

Barrett declared winner in Democratic primary

In early returns in both the state and St. Croix County, Democrat Tom Barrett has a commanding lead over Democrat Kathleen Falk and has been declared the winner by various news sources.

• Tom Barrett

Evenson retiring at age 74

Tom Evenson, 74, has decided to end his 60-year career as a Hudson plumber, operating the business Tom’s Plumbing and Repair.

• Tom Evenson

Gov. Walker touts pre-schools in Hudson stop -- Video attached

Gov. Scott Walker stopped in Hudson Thursday morning and read to a group of pre-kindgarten students at KinderCare, 2600 Center Dr. His purpose was to highlight his YoungStar and Early Literacy initiatives; KinderCare is considered a five-star – top of the list in the state’s reimbursement program.

• Answers question
• Meets staff
• Thank you

City police union sues city of Hudson over health insurance

The Wisconsin Professional Police Association (WPPA) is suing the city of Hudson over the city’s decision to stop contributing funds to Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRA).

Hudson Spring Showcase draws huge crowd

The 10th annual Spring Showcase Sunday drew a near-record crowd to the Hudson Sports and Civic Center Sunday, April 15.

• This grand prize 2012 Yamaha Scooter was won by Joe Ard of New Richmond (not pictured)
• 10th annual Hudson Spring Showcase crowd

Motorcycles descend on North Hudson Saturday morning

Thousands of motorcycles came to North Hudson Saturday morning for the annual spring motorcycle run sponsored by the Mallalieu Inn.

• Thousands of cycles
• Big crowd

Update: Jury acquits UWRF prof Barnett in sex assault case

In a verdict reached Saturday morning, a St. Croix County jury acquitted UW-River Falls professor Thomas William Barnett of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl last summer in a Hudson movie theater. Jurors were unable to reach a verdict Friday afternoon and evening and were excused at about 8 p.m. Friday, said St. Croix County Clerk of Court Lori Meyer. The seven-man, five-woman panel reconvened Saturday at 9 a.m. and just after 11 a.m. announced an acquittal on both counts.

• Thomas Barnett acquitted

Columns

Doug's Diggings: That new phone system; bear sightings

Opinion
If you’re older than 40 you probably remember a day when you purchased a phone for your home or office, plugged it in and you were ready to go. If you’re older than 60 you probably remember the day when the phone was provided by the telephone company as part of the service.

• This large tom turkey was a backyard visitor recently at the Dormody residence

Doug’s Diggings: A new political trend — defeat is unacceptable!

Opinion
If you’ve been following politics — or many other activities for that matter — a new trend is rapidly emerging: defeat is unacceptable.

Doug’s Diggings: From surgery to Florida in one month

I had an interesting month of March. It started with a triple hernia operation and ended with a beautiful week in Fort Myers, Fla. Somehow I managed to get in two-plus weeks of work.

• Doug Stohlberg, left, and brother-in-law Tom Wells with Twins mascot TC Bear

Doug’s Diggings: Letters to the editor and elections

Opinion
It looks like an exciting year of elections — in fact, the excitement already started with last week’s primary. I bring this up because it is probably a good time to outline some guidelines for letters to the editor.

Doug’s Diggings: Something was missing Sunday – the Packers!

Last Sunday my wife and I traveled to my son’s house in Eden Prairie to watch the Super Bowl on television. Like most Packer fans, my heart wasn’t really into the “big game”.

Doug’s Diggings: Smarter than I thought; movie treats

I live in North Hudson and if you believe in surveys, I’m part of one of the “smartest” communities in the state of Wisconsin! Much smarter than the “rubes” in Hudson, or other communities around the county!

Doug's Diggings: A few strings attached to this Florida trip

I had a free trip to Florida a couple of weeks ago -- but, there were a few strings attached.

Doug’s Diggings: Sports fans learn early — no magic in ‘next year’

As of this writing, the Milwaukee Brewers are playing the St. Louis Cardinals in the baseball playoffs. The winner of the NLCS will advance to the World Series to play either the Texas Rangers or Detroit Tigers.

Doug’s Diggings: It may be 10 years, but impact far from over

It is hard to believe that we are 10 years out from the attack on the United States by Islamic extremists. The day was one of those that we all remember very vividly. There are not too many news events in a person’s lifetime that trigger that sort of reaction.

Doug's Diggings: Meeting Harmon Killebrew at the old Met

I’ve met Harmon Killebrew a few times in my life and was sorry to hear that he died last week. Most of the times I met him were in autograph lines, but there was one time in my high school days that I met him up close — it’s quite a story.