After a few weeks of developing a plan for the St. Germain yard-waste facility or “stump dump” the town board had voted to close during a meeting on May 11, the facility will re-open beginning this weekend, June 13 and 14.
The St. Germain town board during a June 2 special meeting worked on plans to re-open the municipal yard-waste facility, also known as the “stump dump.” The board voted to appoint town supervisor Brian Cooper and town chairman John Vojta to oversee the facility and to initiate a permitting process, hire part-time employees, and establish hours of operation.
The St. Germain town board met in special session on May 27 and voted to reverse course on its previous decision to close its municipal yard-waste facility — colloquially known as its “stump dump”— to public use.
Eagle River will receive roughly $385,000 in grant money for repairs to McKinley Boulevard, administrator Robin Ginner announced to the city’s common council during its meeting on Tuesday, May 12. The grant is part of the state’s Local Roads Improvement Program (LRIP), administered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT).
The Eagle River city council on May 12 rejected a request from the town of Lincoln to re-open the shuttered yard-waste facility the two municipalities had shared until it was closed to public use in March.
The possibility of the use of eminent domain by the city of Eagle River to get a dog park established was a topic of discussion during the May 12 meeting of the Eagle River city council. City administrator Robin Ginner had informed the council she believes the city is limited to one particular piece of property as the last potential site for a proposed municipal dog park.
The city of Eagle River has become a victim of its own success due to its farmers’ market causing congestion on nearby streets. Brad Adamovich, the foreman for the city’s department of public works (DPW), told the city council during its April 14 meeting in 2025, “there were a lot of growing pains going on there with the farmers’ market getting as large as it is, and with all of the traffic.”
A month after the Eagle River city council adopted a fee schedule for open-records requests, the new policy was the center of contention at the council’s April 14 meeting. Eagle River resident Kathryn Craffey stressed at one point in the meeting the importance of transparency in city government to the council which prompted alderman Jerry Burkett to respond by characterizing her comments as “defamation of character.”
The city of Eagle River, as a result of action during the city council’s March 10 meeting, will implement a fee schedule for open records requests. The move follows a raft of requests for documents dating back several years, initiated by Eagle River resident Kathryn Craffey.