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Nearly a year into the pandemic, many local restaurants are still struggling. They're counting on community support and hoping that Restaurant Week will help pull them through the next few months. Bonefish Grill in Madison is one of the restaurants participating in Restaurant Week.

A Stoughton staple is celebrating its 120th anniversary.

By Brandon Arbuckle Feb 22, 2021 8:57 PM JANESVILLE, Wis. — A Janesville restaurant will be permanently closing its doors after struggles faced during the pandemic. Kealy’s Kafe will close at 2 p.m. Friday, according to a Facebook post from owners Matt and Hannah Kealy. The restaurant was known for offering delicious breakfast food over the past 24 years and had also been voted Janesville’s top spot for fish fries. The restaurant will be open every day until Friday from 7:30 a.m. ...

By Stephanie Fryer Feb 22, 2021 4:30 PM MADISON, Wis. —  A local radio station helped collect more than 2,000 Lego sets for patients at American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison. Life 102.5 hosted a Lego Drive for the hospital earlier this month. Listeners were asked to purchase a set online and have it shipped directly to the hospital due to the coronavirus pandemic. Hospital staff said 2,235 Lego sets were given to the hospital. “The thousands of Legos, books, puzzles and ...

Madison police are investigating a weapons violation that took place Monday evening. 

By Naomi Kowles Feb 22, 2021 9:47 PM FRIENDSHIP, Wis. — When the legislation that would later become known as Act 10 first began to engulf Wisconsin in one of its bitterest political battles, Adams-Friendship school district administrator Tom Wermuth was a principal in the River Valley school district in Spring Green, about forty miles west of Madison. He’d started there in 1998, wearing many hats throughout his tenure including teacher, pupil services director, principal, eventual ...

Authorities in Iowa County received a report of a disturbance on Grove Street in the Village of Ridgeway Monday around 6:30pm. 37 year old Lonza Caudill of Ridgeway, was arrested for Domestic Disorderly Conduct, Domestic Strangulation and Suffocation and Bail Jumping. Caudill was taken to the Iowa County Jail where she remains pending a bond hearing. Also, 61 year old Rochelle Nelson of Ridgeway was arrested on a warrant through Iowa County. Nelson was taken to the Iowa County Jail where she re...

By Christina Lorey Feb 22, 2021 12:25 PM MADISON, Wis.– “This may seem kind of obvious, but the word that popped into my head was challenging,” said Matt Van Nest, asked to describe the last year in one word. Van Nest owns Monroe Street’s Brasserie V and Middleton’s Longtable. Both restaurants have made it through the past year of the pandemic… but just barely. “We’re used to our restaurants’ revenue coming from people all over the city,” explained Van Nest. “Touri...

By Stephanie Fryer Feb 23, 2021 1:37 PM JANESVILLE, Wis. —  Janesville police said crime was at a 35-year low in the city for 2020, despite responding to more homicides and shots fired incidents compared to the previous year. The department reported a 14-percent drop in overall police activity last year compared to 2019.  The information was released Tuesday in the department’s yearly crime summary report, which outlines crime data in the city from the past five years. Overall pol...

The Assembly has voted to send a bill to Gov. Tony Evers' desk that would clear a path for overhauling the state's antiquated unemployment system, after months of backlog and unemployment claims went unanswered in 2020 as unemployment spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic.