An 82-year-old widow who never had children is donating $100,000 for the city of Middleton to begin work on a new 11-acre park, saying she and her late husband used to get so much joy out of watching kids play.

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By Burl Gilyard Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Minneapolis Park Board officials have closed a big real estate deal, paying $7.7 million for about 11 acres of riverfront land in northeast Minneapolis from Scherer Brothers Lumber Co. The deal clears ...

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By Paul Snyder Madison’s only Central Park development plan hinges on the state letting the city open a pedestrian crossing over the railroad at Few Street. At the same time, Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co., which operates the railroad, is ...

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By Paul Snyder Madison leaders are confident construction will begin by 2011 on the city’s Central Park, but how and when further development will occur is still up for debate. Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s recently approved 2010 city budget includes ...

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MATTHEW DALY AP Writer Washington — President Barack Obama signed legislation Monday setting aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness. Obama called the new law among the most important in decades “to protect, preserve and ...

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