Hwy 23 Accident

There was a terrible accident at Highway 23 and North Street Tuesday afternoon. Two people were killed and a semi truck drive injured. The police were there for at least 8 hours. My sympathies to the families involved.

I would guess this intersection gets more accidents than any other in Green Lake county. The DOT wants to close the Lawson drive entrance into town. That is the wrong intersection. People should not be able to turn into town from this intersection or it needs an underpass for County A with no access to Highway 23. The DOT wants to make this intersection the only access to the town essentially. Big mistake.

High School Football Game

Green Lake trounced Montello-Princeton 44-0 tonight. Now lets see how the Packers do.

Harvest Fest

It was a the usual fun weekend. I heard there were more people this weekend than ever before. The book sale at the library was very successful. Tuscumbia won the waiters race. The car show was excellent. Loved the weekend.

Norton's October Fest, Oct. 9

Norton's is having an October Fest on Oct. 9 from 4-8.

Tuba Dan and Die Spiel Meisters will be providing entertainment.

It is all you can eat and drink and by reservation only. I went last year and the food was great.

Elections

By now all of you who are interested know the school ref did not pass. I found it interesting that only 19 percent of the state registered voters actually voted. Sad.

I wonder how many of you who bitch at each other on this blog actually get involved in community activities. Or is bitching on here your community activity. Do any of you volunteer at any of the community festivals? Are you on any public committees? Do you donate any money to the charities? Or is it just easier to complain on here.

Sign Ordinance

The sign ordinance would seem to be one of the simple reasons we don't have any business in this town. It is not business friendly on many levels and now they want to make it worse. In this weeks paper Robin Wallenfang says "we don't want to be the sign Nazis. We simply want to see it enforced." Like sign Nazis. We barely have any business as it is but the city will make sure what we do have won't want to stay.
As I understand it 70% of the business in town are not in compliance. Robin seem to think we are becoming Wisconsin Dells. I wish we were even close to their problems with signs.

The Half Marathon 13.1

Did anybody get a chance to run or see the marathon this weekend? I saw the end of it and there were it sure brought a lot of people to town. I meant to get a picture and didn't quite get there for a good one.

They're BACK!!!

There will be another school referendum on the September 14th ballot. I haven't seen the wording for it yet but it has to be similar to the last 2. Good Luck!

Battle of the Bands at the Park

I think the Battle of the Bands was a great success. Lots of people there anyway. I have a problem that it was to raise money for the Chamber of Commerce. What is the Chamber doing that it needs more money? The Chamber is now its own fundraiser. Great.

Chalk Street Art

Mini Tornado

Looks like we had a little wind storm hit the lake last night. There are lots of trees down on the east end and Sunnyside got hit also. I saw a few tipped over boat lifts near the inlet.

Did anybody actually see a funnel?

Street Dance August 7

There will be a street dance this saturday August 7th to support and raise money for the Green Lake/ Town of Brooklyn Fire Dept. There is a raffle where you can win $1,000 and lots of fun.

See You There!

GLO Meeting (click on the posting to enlarge it)

Band Stand Stairs

I went to the band concert on Wednesday night. It was excellent. As I was sitting on the lawn I was watching several people try to negotiate the uphill slope. some of them were older or had health problems, not to mention the humidity. They had a very difficult time trying to get up the side of the hill. Many of them were carrying folding chairs and it was tough for them to get up there. Shouldn't it be a fairly easy fix to put in some sort of stair case for them to get up there? North of the bathroom would seem to be the best spot.

Boat Show & Water Ski Show at Norton's Today

There is water skiing show at Norton's at 6:30 tonight. I hope the lake isn't too rough for them.

Public Pier Parking

I've always been under the impression that is pier, located in the mill pond is a public pier. If this is true why aren't there any signs to let visiting boaters they can park there. It would be a great help for the downtown restaurants.

Jack Taylor Death

The loss of Jack Taylor last week will have an impact on the community. Jack always ran the car show for Harvest Fest. He would go out to other car show around the state and hand out fliers for this car show. He contacted car clubs. He kept car enthusiasts aware of the car show. It made Harvest Fest special. He pretty much did it on his own. I hope there is a group out there to pick up the slack on the car show because it will be missed.

Green Lake Fireworks/Marching Band

I thought the fireworks were pretty great this year. Thanks to all of you who contributed money to support them.

I went to see the UW Marching Band this week. I think they should call it the Brass band because it isn't the whole marching band these guys do a great job. As the rain came down the lake they continued to play and then played right through the rain. I really enjoyed them.

ABA History

On June 17th at 7:00 Brad Carroll will be giving a talk at the library on the History of the ABA. His family has been involved with the conference center for many years and it should be pretty interesting.

Courthouse

I still think they should seriously consider turning the courthouse into a casino. At one time, in the distant past this lake had 3 of them. It would provide jobs, year around tourism and some life to the downtown. We need it.

I love what they finally did with the sidewalk on Mill Street. It looks great.