Jackson News

While more communities move toward cooperation to cut spending, the city and town of Cedarburg are embroiled in an acrimonious split that is ending more than a decade of cost sharing for services.

Bail was set at $750,000 Tuesday for a Grafton man accused of using a necktie to strangle his 14-year-old stepson, Cody Reetz, Sunday night as payback to the boy's mother for telling police that the man had beat her the week before with a hammer.

Today Janet Jackson's first hits compilation in over fourteen years, "Number Ones," hits stores.

Tom Schwai is up to his elbows mixing a crimson stew of secret ingredients for his family-recipe blood sausage as he talks about expanding his business.

Nov. 13, 2009 11:32 a.m. A 15-year-old girl from West Bend died after the car in which she was riding collided with a minivan Thursday at an intersection in the Town of Jackson, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department.

A 15-year-old West Bend girl died in a two vehicle crash Thursday evening on Highway 60 at Highway G in the Town of Jackson.

The Village Board has rejected two direct legislation petitions from residents seeking to restrict its authority to approve a police services contract with the Washington County Sheriff's Department.

This article originally appeared on MilwaukeeMagazine.com http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com:80/guides/default.asp?newmessageid=11988 The Right Stuff Oh, the remarkable stuff to see in the area's many museums.

A country fair at the Olympia Center in Oconomowoc was the setting for a recent fundraiser to benefit the Lake Area Free Clinic.

Nov. 3, 2009 11:20 a.m. Schwai's Meat and Sausage plans to open a store in Cedarburg on Nov.

A public hearing on rezoning a parcel of land at the southwest corner of 21st and Jackson streets will be held at the next regular City Council meeting, which is set for 6 p.m. Nov.

A 26-year-old California man's DNA has been found on evidence recovered in connection with the October stabbing death of Kimberly Smith at her Oconomowoc home and a warrant has been issued for his arrest, authorities said Tuesday afternoon.

After five weeks of debate over a proposal to eliminate the police department here, Tuesday night village trustees voted to keep their force.

Oct. 26, 2009 10:23 p.m. The Jackson Village Board on Monday halted its unpopular discussion of a possible police services contract with the Washington County Sheriff's Department and decided to keep its 12-officer police department intact.

Police officers in the village of Jackson and city of Pewaukee are trying to save their jobs by forcing referendums that would ask voters in the two communities whether their police departments should be kept intact.

A majority of the Village Board, brushing aside a chorus of dozens of residents shouting support for keeping intact the Jackson Police Department, agreed Tuesday to continue studying a proposed contract with the Washington County Sheriff's Department for law enforcement services.

I'm guessing that folks in the city of Pewaukee and the village of Jackson are feeling the pinch of this economy as just about everyone else is.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Southeast Region in Waukesha is announcing a public information meeting to discuss the reconstruction of the intersection of WIS 60 and County G in the town of Jackson in Washington County.

If you want to be a hit on the dance floor, come learn Michael Jackson's Thriller dance at this year's Fall Festival set for Oct.

Oct. 5, 2009 1:22 p.m. Jackson a ' A village resident is circulating petitions to recall Village President Scott Mittelsteadt and Trustee David Roskopf from office for their support of a plan to contract with the Washington County Sheriff's Department for 24-hour-a-day service in place of the municipal police department.