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The state’s Attorney General’s office announced a settlement Wednesday against a drilling company for a failure to get permits on jobs dating back to 2007. Michael Hartman and his company, Michael Hartman Well Drilling & Pump Inc., North Lake, settled the lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court. The civil complaint was filed by the Department of Justice against Hartman personally ...

A Wisconsin appeals court Tuesday overturned a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge’s order requiring the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District place concrete lining in a section of Milwaukee’s deep tunnel. The ruling means MMSD will not be required to do the work on a 1-mile stretch beneath the Boston Store at The Shops of Grand Avenue mall in downtown Milwaukee. A ...

By James Briggs A nonprofit organization that has been pushing in court for Milwaukee workers to receive guaranteed paid time off for illness is conceding the local battle — for now. But 9to5, National Association of Working Women will keep lobbying for a federal bill that ultimately would inform sick-leave policies in cities such as Milwaukee. The worker’s rights organization ...

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Holst Excavating Inc., Prescott, and its owners and operators, William Holst and Nancy Beeler, have agreed to pay a $25,000 fine to the state and will come into compliance with the state’s erosion control laws under the terms of a civil environmental settlement announced Monday by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources had asked the ...

A civil environmental enforcement action against Karl Excavating Inc., Manitowoc, arising from solid waste violations has been resolved, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced Monday. During a May 2010 inspection, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources found about 10 dump-truck sized loads of demolition material and bottom ash improperly stored at the business, according to a news release from ...

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The 2009 razing and burning of a barn in the town of Linn, Walworth County, led to Chicago-based Mir Co. settling a lawsuit Wednesday, according to a news release from Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. In late spring 2009, the town of Linn ordered Mir Co., the owner of the barn, to demolish it. After the local fire department ...

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has reached a settlement agreement with Andrew P. Dahl, owner of Dahl Well Drilling LLC, Glenwood City, for violations of state laws regulating well drilling, pump installation and safe drinking water. According to the complaint, filed at the request of the Department of Natural Resources, Dahl is a licensed well driller who submitted 63 late ...

By Caley Clinton The former James Cape & Sons Co.’s case against a former employee and two other construction firms was settled Tuesday in Racine County Circuit Court. Cape’s case against Daniel Beaudoin, the company’s former project manager, as well as Manitowoc-based Vinton Construction Co. and Holmen-based Streu Construction Co., claimed Cape is owed money lost because Beaudoin shared the ...

A 2004 Menasha plan to upgrade a municipal power plant to satisfy local businesses has backfired to the point that only a deal with bondholders can keep the city from the edge of bankruptcy. The saga began in 2003 when representatives of the paper industry, the bedrock of the city’s industrial base, approached city officials with a plan that would ...

The city of Menasha has entered into a consent decree with the Sierra Club and several government agencies regarding its operation of the River Street Power Plant. The plant was voluntarily closed in October 2009 because of the air pollution. The federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources joined the Sierra Club in the federal lawsuit ...

By Marie Rohde Glendale is getting ready to buy the Bavarian Inn property in a deal that bails out a company the city has fought with for years over taxes. “Assuming we are successful, it will allow them to survive,” Glendale City Administrator Richard Maslowski said of Deutsches Land Inc., the group of five German fraternal organizations that owns the ...