TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD, Wis. (AP) — A nonprofit organization is aiming to open Wisconsin’s first monkey sanctuary in Marquette County in another year or two. Primates Incorporated received a recent $50,000 donation to help open a home for retired research monkeys near Westfield. The organization owns 17 acres in the Town of Springfield where the monkeys would live in indoor-outdoor structures. The Portage Daily Register says Amy Kerwin founded Primates Incorporated after seeing the need for monkey sanctuaries more than a decade ago in her work in the primate lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She got to know 97 research monkeys and learned there were no plans to retire them. The group has raised nearly half of its $500,000 goal.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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