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WASHINGTON D.C. - Congress is sending President Bush a bill that would extend for two years a federal program to clean up areas of pollution and contaminated sediment around the Great Lakes. The House voted 411-9 Sunday in favor of the measure approving $54 million a year over the next two years for the project. The original five-year bill, passed in 2003, was to expire this year.
The House had sought $150 million a year over five years for the cleanup operation, but acceded to the lower level passed by the Senate last week.
Story By: Associated Press
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Record High Turnout Expected in Wisconsin Primary
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Submitted: 09/02/2010 |
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MADISON - A record-high 28 percent turnout is predicted for Wisconsin's primary on Sept. 14.
State elections officials made the estimate on Thursday, citing highly contested statewide races for governor as well as local legislative and congressional contests.
Government Accountability Board Director Kevin Kennedy says there appears to be tremendous interest in this election.
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Fire Destroys Local Garage
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Submitted: 09/01/2010 |
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TOWN OF CONOVER - Fire destroys a garage in Vilas County.
It happened in the Town of Conover at 3551 North Country Lane.
The Conover Volunteer Fire Department responded to the call around four Wednesday afternoon after the owner noticed fire around his feet while welding in the garage and called 911.
When firefighters arrived the garage was fully engulfed.
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Veteran Reacts to Staff Sgt. West's Death
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Submitted: 09/01/2010 |
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TOWN OF CONOVER - A local veteran says he feels West's family's pain.
Harold Kressin of Conover is an Army veteran.
Kressin says it's hard to hear about soldiers losing their lives overseas, and it's especially hard when they're from your community.
Harold Kressin, Army Veteran, says, "Everytime a man gets killed or a woman gets killed in service, it's just heart-breaking to me, I cry. Because these people are not going to have the freedoms that we have."
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Conover Soldier Killed
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Submitted: 09/01/2010 |
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- The Defense Department says a soldier who lived in Conover, was killed in Afghanistan on Monday.
36-year-old Staff Sgt. Matthew West was one of five Fort Carson soldiers killed when their unit was attacked with an improvised bomb.
West's sister, Kristine Willis, tells the Traverse City Record-Eagle that her brother was a 1992 graduate of Gaylord High
School in Michigan.
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Summer Tourism Wrap Up
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Submitted: 09/01/2010 |
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- Labor Day marks the unofficial end to summer and the wrap up of the summer tourism season.
With the holiday, just a few days away, Newswatch 12 looks at how the Northwoods economy fared this year.
Newswatch 12 spent Wednesday in Minocqua speaking with resort owners and the Minocqua Arbor Vitae Woodruff Area Chamber of Commerce, otherwise known as MAVWACC.
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