Yesterday, Brooklyn’s village President, Brit Springer, was voted out of office — despite not facing a formal challenger. Springer was issued a resounding defeat by write-in candidate Mark Bruner, who garnered 75% of the vote, or roughly 244 ballots. But she wasn’t alone in her defeat; in addition to Springer, three other Brooklyn trustee races […]
Village of Brooklyn eliminates police department, contracts with Dane ...
Yesterday, the Village of Brooklyn – located about twenty minutes south of Madison – voted to dissolve its four person police department. Despite vocal opposition from town residents, the board voted 5-2 to instead enter into a law enforcement contract with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office. Yesterday’s vote to terminate the department — which consists […]
Bethanee Wright: Manifesting Her Farming Dream at Winterfell Acres
Bethanee Wright, 26, grew up in Milwaukee. Her parents owned a hardware store. “I could sell a hammer, but I didn’t learn anything particularly helpful for farming,” she recalls. While an undergrad at UW Madison, she started interning at FairShare CSA Coalition, where she caught the farming bug. Dennis Fiser, a FairShare staffer at the […]
