• WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015 • VOLUME 82 • NO. 37 • 2 SECTIONS Six proms
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),567 5($' POLK COUNTY—Wisconsin State trail passes, required for bicycle riders 16 years of age and older on Polk County’s two state bike trails, the Gandy Dancer and the Stower Seven Lakes, are available at six self-registration locations on the trails. On the Gandy Dancer Trail, a self-registration box is located in Frederic by the 1901 Soo Line Depot, and new for 2015, at the Polk County Information Center in St. Croix Falls. The Stower Seven Lakes Trail has four locations, in Amery, Wanderoos, Deronda and Nye. Passes are sold at many area businesses and attractions, but the self-registration boxes provide an option when those locations are not open. Polk County receives around $10,000 a year from trail pass sales, resulting in around $250 a mile for maintenance on the two trails. Wisconsin is celebrating 50 years of rails to trails this summer, and what would be a better way to celebrate than to take a bike tour on some of the state trails that started 50 years ago with the Elroy/Sparta Trail? State trail passes are $4 for a daily pass and $20 for an annual pass. They are good on all Wisconsin State trails that require passes, and expire on Dec. 31 of each year. – Polk County Tourism Council ••• STATEWIDE - State lawmakers have voted to preserve funding for the Department of Natural Resources to pick up dead deer from Wisconsin highways. Gov. Scott Walker’s budget would have deleted funding for the DNR’s car-killed deer program, and to hear the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau describe it, the consequences could have been ugly. The program removed nearly 24,000 deer from Wisconsin highways last year. Without the funding, that responsibility would have fallen to highway workers. Or WKH GHHU FRXOG KDYH JRQH XQFROOHFWHG ,Q D PHPR WR ODZPDNHUV WKH Ă€VFDO bureau wrote “Dead and decaying deer on the roadside are unsightly and can dampen Wisconsin’s reputation as a tourist destination.â€? Lawmakers decided to keep the program around after all, budgeting roughly $1.5 million from the state’s forestry fund to pay for dead deer removal. They also made it easier for drivers to remove the carcasses themselves if they want to. - Shawn Johnson | WPR News ••• RICE LAKE - A freshman Republican lawmaker from northwestern Wisconsin is working to spare the state’s two-year colleges from Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System. State Rep. Romaine Quinn, of Rice Lake, said he isn’t opposed to the governor trimming the UW System, but he’s drawing a line when it comes to the 13 UW colleges across the state. Walker’s budget would cut the state’s two-year campuses by $6.5 million. UW-Barron County is in the heart of Quinn’s district and he said there’s no fat left to trim. “All the arguments you hear about the big four years, whether it’s trimming salaries or talking about tenure, those solutions just aren’t applicable to these two-year schools, and we need to recognize that,â€? Quinn said. Quinn will offer a budget motion to shift the $6.5 million in cuts from two-year campuses to the state’s four-year universities. A similar motion by Rep. Ed Brooks of Reedsburg would exempt UW-Extension from cuts. - Rich Kremer | WPR News
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