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Counties to collaborate on update to manure storage ordinance Vernon and Monroe VERNON AND MONROE - Following a discussion in which almost 40 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Vernon County Land Conservation committee and staff members, and almost 20 interested citizens discussed recent manure-related fish kills in Vernon County, the Land Conservation Committee made a big decision. Vernon County Land Conservation Committee member Rod Ofte moved, and Kelli Mitchell seconded, a motion to form a committee to collaborate with Monroe County on revisions...

Government relief helped but isn't enough, local restaurants say. "We've lost so much." //end headline wrapper ?> Luke Zahm. Photo by Pat McDonnell/Wisconsin Foodie. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Dan Jacobs and his business partner ran three restaurants and a bakery and employed 97 people. Now, the Milwaukee-based enterprise is down to two restaurants — DanDan and EsterEv — 24 employees and less than half of the revenue generated from 2019 to 2020. “We’ve lost so much money,” Jacobs said. Wisconsin’s restaurant industry has been hard hit by the pandemic. It has earned symp...