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CAZENOVIA - Ramona Ann Durkin, 83, of Cazenovia, died peacefully with family present on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, at the Meadows Assisted Living and Memory Care in Spring Green.

MADISON - By the grace of God, Pastor Paul S. Soukup was received into the waiting arms of His Savior Jesus Christ on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, with his loving wife, Sandra, by his side.

MADISON - Carol L. Bear, age 69, lost her battle with Myotonic Dystrophy, with her family by her side, on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015.

MADISON - Richard David "Pastor Matt" Matthews, age 81, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, at St. Mary's Care Center, Madison.

CROSS PLAINS / BLACK EARTH - Our lives are story collections of how we lived, loved, laughed and cried. Few people loved a good story more than John Foye, whose own story peacefully ended Jan.…

MADISON - Mateo Angel Aquino, age 4 days old, of Madison, passed away peacefully on Jan. 27, 2015, in the arms of his loving parents.

MARQUETTE, Mich. - Pat Ryan O'Day, longtime owner, editor-in-chief and publisher of the Marquette Monthly, passed away at U.P. Health System in Marquette on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, following…

OREGON - Martin AJ Koch, age 80, of Oregon, passed away on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare. He was born on Jan. 10, 1935, in Dane, the son of John and Anna Koch.

MADISON - George Albert Nelson, age 76, passed away peacefully at home on Jan. 28, 2015. The cause of death was chronic lung disease. He was born in Madison on June 6, 1938, to Dorothea Victor…

MADISON / MILWAUKEE - Germaine Reik, age 90, died peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at Oakwood Village in Madison, from long-term effects of Alzheimer's. She was born on July 31, 1924, in …

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Madison Police Chief Mike Koval will hold a series of public forums across the city in February.

Mary Lou Reinwand grew her store, Rosy Cheeks and Co., from small at-home sewing projects into one of the region’s largest retailers of dance, gymnastics and skating clothing.

But by then, presidential aspirant Scott Walker could be in the White House, where it wouldn’t be his problem anymore.

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“I love seeing the outdoors; it’s just fun to fish,” Blake Wilcox, an eighth-grader from Reedsburg, said while fishing with relatives on Cox Hollow Lake in Governor Dodge State Park recently. 

Junior Kelsey Card made her mark Friday at the Armory Track Invitational, which features competition between 71 colleges and universities, at the New Balance Track and Field Center in New York City.