Wisconsin State Journal Local News

HIGHLAND - Mary Jean (Laufenberg) Wienkes, age 93, of Highland, answered her Savior's call peacefully at Upland Hills Health on June 7, 2015, surrounded by her family, following a brief illness.

CROSS PLAINS - Jesse Shimniok of Cross Plains, a humble servant of God, joined his Heavenly Father on Monday, June 8, 2015. A loving and giving husband, father, son, brother, and friend, many …

MADISON - Sophy Shashkevich, age 92, passed away on Thursday, June 4, 2015, at Oakwood Village in Madison. Services will be held at a later date. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.

MADISON - Carol M. Judd Leckie, age 86, of Madison, peacefully passed on to meet her Lord, surrounded by her family, on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at Oakwood Village East. She was born on Feb. 25…

CAMBRIDGE - SSG Brandon Kelly Fitzgerald passed away June 6, 2015. He was born May 8, 1977, in Lindsay, Calif. to Elaine and Albert "Bert" Fitzgerald. Brandon joined the U.S. Army in November …

MADISON - Helen Marie (Blazek) Richter, age 98, passed peacefully from the arms of family and friends to her Lord on June 7, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. She was born on Sept. 17,…

MADISON / EVANSTON, Ill. - Herbert Martin Kliebard, loving husband, father, grandfather, friend and ground-breaking scholar in curriculum planning, the history of education, and on the educati…

COTTAGE GROVE - Lenice Lavon Pafford, age 86, of Cottage Grove, and formerly of Fennimore, died on Sunday morning, June 7, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. Lenice was born on May 25, …

STOUGHTON - Bob, Doc, Grandpa, Bobpa, Dad, no matter what the name, Robert Arndt was a true original. After a long and courageous battle with cancer, he died on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at the …

HOLLANDALE - Glenn Schriber, age 93, of Hollandale, passed away on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at Ingleside Manor in Mount Horeb.

SUN PRAIRIE - Phyllis Leone (Statz) Frank, of Sun Prairie, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on June 8, 2015, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Rick Skindrud was driving a dump truck that crashed into a bicycle on Highway JG in the town of Primrose and sent the bicyclist to UW Hospital. 

A popular family pizzeria with locations in Belleville and New Glarus is opening a third restaurant in Verona early next year. 

The city's Board of Estimates recommended on Monday using nearly $3.2 million to purchase the parkland and about 50 additional acres west of the Hawks Landing Golf Club and neighborhood from L…

For the Middleton and Madison Memorial boys golf teams, the chase is on.

The title of a May 28 article appearing in the Washington Post was: “What the heck is going on with Wisconsin public education?" 

I take exception to the portrayal of African-Americans in Wednesday’s cartoon by Phil Hands.

During the last several years, Madison schools and teachers have become increasingly responsible for duties abdicated by dysfunctional parents.

Remember in the 1990s when the House Republicans got the upper hand on that nasty Democratic president and impeached him for having extra-marital sex?

Amtrak is simply the worst mode of transportation.