Published: August 10, 2012
Tags: aerial lift, Blue Sky Contractors LLC, Brillion, Buechner Construction Inc., cable, citation, demolition, design, electrical, excavation, fall protection, Feiner Construction LLC, Fox Cities Roofing Inc., framing, Gays Mills, GTO Contractors LLC, installation, Jack Built Homes LLC, Kenosha, La Crosse, ladder, Madison, Milwaukee, Mount Horeb, Neenah, Northfork Builders Inc., osha, Peters Concrete Co., Platteville, Portillo Plaster Inc., remodeling, residential, roofing, safety, scaffolding, Ser Roofing & Siding LLC, settlement, sewer line, Showen Construction & Excavating LLC, siding, single-family housing, stairway, training, Upland Builders LLC, Wagner Construction Co. Inc., water line, Waukesha, Waunakee, wiring, woodworking tool
The Daily Reporter’s weekly digest of companies that received OSHA violations for work around the state.
Published: December 13, 2010
Tags: Basina, BidBlog, blog, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, floods, Gays Mills, Kickapoo River
By Jan Basina • EMS Building, Gays Mills, Crawford County • Public Works Building, Gays Mills, Crawford County • Community Commerce Center, Gays Mills, Crawford County Flooding is nothing new to the village of Gays Mills. After all, the Kickapoo River has spilled over its banks 11 times in the past 100 years. But the [...]
Published: September 14, 2010
Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, floods, Gays Mills, storm
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By KEN KUSMER Associated Press Writer SEELYVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Karen Niece loves her idyllic bungalow in the Indiana countryside, but when storms dumped nearly a foot of rain on her 19-acre property in 2008, flash floods left mold in the foundation — and gave Niece a lung infection she will have the rest of [...]
Published: May 20, 2010
Tags: flood, Gays Mills, Kickapoo River
GAYS MILLS, Wis. (AP) — The village of Gays Mills is receiving $4.4 million this week from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to help reinvent itself after being devastated by floods. Floods in 2007 and 2008 caused planners in the rural Crawford County community to relocate its business district and residents out [...]
Published: April 13, 2010
Tags: flood, Gays Mills, Kickapoo River
GAYS MILLS, Wis. (AP) — The first apartment building on higher ground in Gays Mills should be ready for flood-weary residents in a matter of weeks. The village is using a $4.3 million federal grant to develop the community outside the current flood plain. Flooding in 2007 and 2008 devastated the village on the banks [...]
Published: March 17, 2010
Tags: BidBlog, blog, flood, Gays Mills, Kickapoo River, Knoedler, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, MMSD, river, Soldiers Grove, Spring Green
By Ann Knoedler I can imagine how idyllic it must be to live on the shores of a pretty river, but sometimes Mother Nature can be a tough neighbor. Several southwest and southeast Wisconsin communities found this out the hard way and made the decision to resolve their flooding problems in dramatic fashion: they are [...]
Published: March 9, 2010
Tags: Community Development Block Grant Emergency Assistance Program, Doyle, Gays Mills, grant
Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday that Gays Mills will receive a $640,000 grant from Community Development Block Grant-Emergency Assistance Program to help the community relocate after storms and flooding in 2007 and 2008. “I am very pleased that we could assist the village of Gays Mills in relocating,” Doyle said in a press release. “It [...]
By Paul Snyder A victim of the 2008 floods in southern Wisconsin, Steve Mickelson says the state’s proposed policy allowing anyone in the damaged region to apply for federal disaster-recovery bonds is wrong. “They should prioritize it for those that were directly affected,” said Mickelson, the owner of Mickelson’s Market in Gays Mills. The flood [...]
Published: October 7, 2009
Tags: atrazine, Dane County, Environmental Protection Agency, FBI, flooding, Gays Mills, identity theft, Kickapoo River, Labor Department, managed forest program, Patricia Smith, solicitor nominee, Tigerton Lumber Co.
Flooded Wisconsin village prepares to move to high ground Gays Mills (AP) — Gays Mills is finally ready to move to high ground. Flooding in 2007 and 2008 devastated the village on the banks of the Kickapoo River. Village leaders decided last November to buy 30 acres of high ground and build new homes and [...]
Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Construction likely will begin this fall on property two miles north of downtown Gays Mills, signaling the beginning of the village’s relocation. “There are mixed feelings about it and it depends who you talk to,” said Maura Otis, village librarian and member of the Gays Mills Long Range Planning Committee. “Many people [...]
