10 years ago… 45 years ago…
August 13, 2014 - Grassland Dairy Products had agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the state Department of Natural Resources for alleged violations of the dairy industry’s permit to discharge wastes into the Black River. - Incumbent Clark County Sheriff Greg Herrick won 61% of primary election votes to advance to the Nov. 4 general election where he would face Scott Haines. - The first Spencer Swamp Romp 5K cross country event was to be held on Sept. 6 at Frey Field in Spencer. In addition to the 5K, there would be a kids half-mile fun run and awards for participants.
August 18,1999 - A groundbreaking ceremony was held oil Aug. 11 in Spencer for FBC Industries Inc. The company created food additive products including sodium phosphates, sodium citrate and potassium sorbate. The company was to construct a 20,000 square foot building in the Spencer Industrial Park. - For the first time ever, property value in Clark County had surpassed $ 1 billion. The state’s property tax value figures had risen by record numbers all across the state in the past year. With the rise in property value, the county board could keep tax levies set at $8.55 per $1,000 in property value and still be able to spend an additional $664,029 in its annual budget. - Enrollment numbers had started to decline in Wisconsin schools. According to the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, more than half of Wisconsin school districts had lost students in the past two years. According to their studies, Wisconsin schools would lose 50,000 students by 2008. Locally, schools were already noticing the decline. Granton was one of five school districts in the state to have double-digit drops in enrollment during 1997-99, losing 33 students in that time.
August 15, 1979 - The former Hoehne Hardware storage building in Greenwood was to be razed this week The building was considered a Greenwood landmark and had been in use since the late 1800s for a variety of stores, including as a meat market, butcher shop and garage. The lot that the building occupied was to be landscaped after the building was torn down. - Some local damage was reported following a tornado that passed south of Loyal on Aug. 9. A portion of a barn roof was torn off a barn on the Henry and Jerry Schmidt farm and a trailer home owned by the Schmidt family was taken off its blocks by the winds. Damage to the house was estimated at $1,500. - Two, 16-ounce loaves of white bread were 69 cents.
August 13, 1964 - The Loyal Volunteer Fire Department was called to a fire around 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 7 at the Norman Wolf Sawmill. The mill was completely destroyed due to high west winds, and the estimated loss of the buildings was $20,000. The fire started in a sawdust pile from sparks from a welding torch being used to repair machinery. The sawmill and adjacent planing mill were completely destroyed and the city pump house near the mill was also burned. Norman Wolf, the owner of the plant, said that he expected to be back in operation in the next week and have a new building constructed out of steel to replace the mill. - A pound of bananas was 10 cents.
“Remember When” items are taken from past issues of the Tribune Record Gleaner from 1968 to present, from the Greenwood Gleaner from 1957 to 1964 and from the Loyal Tribune prior to 1968.
