Dec. 13 – 23
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• Liberty Grove officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the newly renovated town hall on Old Stage Road Dec. 16. With a handful of board members and employees in attendance, longtime clerk Bud Kalms and former Chairman Bill Casey cut the ribbon, opening the doors to the new hall.
The town had been holding its meetings at the Ellison Bay women’s club facility since June, when the $1.5 million renovation began. The project included new bathrooms, meeting facilities, offices for the assessor, utility district, building inspector, chairman and clerk, and more storage space. It also added two more bays for the road crew.
• Scandia Village Retirement Center welcomed a new administrator in a ceremony Dec. 16. Michele Notz accepted the keys to Scandia Village Retirement Home from retiring Administrator David Boock. Notz is a Gibraltar High School graduate who resides in Valmy.
• The Department of Natural Resources agreed to hold a contested Case Hearing per a request filed by the Peninsula Shores Condominium Association regarding the length of two floating piers that the DNR permitted in the Egg Harbor marina design. The DNR is allowing construction on the marina to continue while the case is under review. An Administrative Law Judge must schedule the hearing within 90 days of receiving the request from the DNR.
The village terminated the mooring agreement with Peninsula Shores last month in response to the complaint.
• The Wisconsin Assembly passed a resolution requesting that Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen join a lawsuit to require the closure of locks on the Chicago Sanitary Ship Canal to prevent invasive Asian Carp from entering the Great Lakes. The resolution sponsored by Assemblymen Garey Bies (R-Sister Bay) and Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee) gives Van Hollen the legal authority to join a suit being filed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox.
• The Village of Ephraim approved an ordinance to speed up zoning permit applications. The ordinance allows applications to move on to the Plan Commission without the recommendation of the Historic Preservation Committee (HPC) if the HPC is unable to get a quorum of members together to hold a meeting. Members of the HPC would be encouraged to provide comment for the Plan Commission if such a circumstance were to occur. Previously, village rules did not allow a project to move to the Plan Commission for consideration until the HPC had considered it.