Burnett County Sentinel: June 15, 2016

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BURNETT COUNTY

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2016 VOL. 54 NO. 40 www.burnettcountysentinel.com $1.00

PROBLEM GEESE: Siren Village Board tackles safety and sanitary issue. P2

Meth problem growing in Burnett County BY STEVE BRIGGS SENTINEL

GOOB COY| SENTINEL

Welcome home walk

The Grantsburg softball team was welcomed home by a host of friends, family and fans on Sunday when they returned from Madison. Unified as a team, they carried the State Runner-Up trophy home to the high school. State tournament stories and photos begin on Page 14.

Grantsburg moves on nuisance bears STEVE BRIGGS SENTINEL

GRANTSBURG —“We have a people problem, not a bear problem,” said a stern and frustrated Village President Glenn Rolloff at Monday’s Grantsburg Village Board meeting. Rolloff said residents who leave cat and

dog food feeding dishes outside, who refuse to take down bird feeders during the spring months, who put out shelled corn to feed squirrels and deer (“and those cute bear cubs”), or who set their garbage cans out the night before the morning pickup, are intentionally or unintentionally inviting bears into the village.

SIREN—More than 100 county residents heard Wednesday at a “Meth Town Hall Meeting” at Siren School that arrests for methamphetamine (meth) are up significantly in Burnett County. The cost in tax dollars and work hours needed to investigate, arrest, prosecute, incarcerate and treat meth users is putting a heavy toll on the county’s budget. In 2015, the Burnett County Sheriff Department, St. Croix Tribal Police and village police departments were involved in arresting 82 people for meth use, possession or sale in Burnett County, an SEE METH, PAGE 9

“There are people who, from an educational standpoint, may not even realize they are feeding the bears. If you bring your garbage tub out on Tuesday evening and it’s full of waste products and food scraps that are attractive to bears, you are SEE BEAR, PAGE 6

Four Cubs Farm relies on host of experts BY STEVE BRIGGS SENTINEL

GRANTSBURG—Siren Ag Association’s 2016 Dairy Breakfast and Farm Tour will begin at 6 a.m. Saturday, June 18, at the Four Cubs Farm at 23250 Williams Road, one mile south of State Road 70 and four miles southeast of Grantsburg. University of Minnesota graduate Ben Peterson is farmer and CEO, the fifth gen-

eration to operate Four Cubs farm since it was homesteaded by Ben’s great-great grandmother in 1873. Ben is son of Gary and Cris Peterson, who have been dairying together at Four Cubs Farm since 1973. Gary farmed by himself here for eight years before that. Four Cubs Farm has been in Gary’s family since 1877. The existing barn and house were built in 1895 by his great-grandfa-

ther, B.J. Peterson, with lumber cut from the surrounding land. Over the years, the barn and the house have been added to and changed.

45 dairy cows in 1973 to 900 today Like many dairies across Wisconsin, Four Cubs Farm has changed and grown SEE FARM, PAGE 8

STEVE BRIGGS | SENTINEL

At a display table before the Town Hall meeting Wednesday at Siren School, St. Croix Tribal Police Dept. Sgt. Warren Tuttle displays household items, some toxic, used in meth production.

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