The Watertown Main Street Program has announced the winners of the Fall Festival's scarecrow contest.

The Watertown Finance Committee put its final touches on the 2009 city budget Monday evening and the end result calls for the elimination of three city positions and one to remain unfilled.

The Watertown Plan Commission Monday granted a conditional use permit to ShopKo that will allow a group development at the local store on South Church Street.

The Nov. 4 election is 21 days from today. THE END OF MCCAIN-FEINGOLD: Mention bipartisan cooperation and no two names come more quickly to mind than "McCain" and "Feingold." Ever since Republican Sen.

Sure, gas prices have come down lately. But to 34.9 cents a gallon? That's what Kelly Joosten and dozens of other motorists paid at a Wisconsin Citgo station Monday.

Wildlife officials are moving dozens of martens from Minnesota to northern Wisconsin to try to boost the population here.