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County to petition for additional prosecutor BY TODD BECKMANN SENTINEL
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Something for everyone Jordan Weber of Woodbury, Minn. ignores everyone around her as she examines the rocking giraffe at the Voyager Village Arts and Crafts Show last weekend. More photos on Page 27.
Webster ‘thrilled’ to be on verge of getting fiber optics
SIREN—Burnett County ranks in the top four under-staffed district attorney offices in the state. District Attorney Bill Norine plans to do something about that. “I’ll be petitioning for an additional prosecutor when I turn in my state budget Sept. 15,” he told members of the Burnett County Public Safety Committee last week. “But, who knows what we’ll get.” He said the Department of Administration, which oversees the D.A offices throughout the state, tells its D.A.s not to ask about getting additional prosecutors. “My question to that is, ‘Then why bother with a budget at all?’” Norine lamented. And, no one follows that rule anyway. “Everyone is going bonkers asking for additional help. Sheyboygan County is asking for four additional prosecutors,” Norine explained. That news was a red flag to committee members. “Is the work load increasing that much?” member Emmett Byrne queried. SEE SHORTAGE, PAGE 6
BY TODD BECKMANN SENTINEL
WEBSTER—The rubber has hit the road in Webster, as far as fiber optics is concerned, and the state’s top broadband people were in town last
week for a project update. Sirentel was the recipient of a $150,000 grant late last year to bring fiber optics to Webster. After obtaining needed supplies over winter, the project began in earnest in June. “It’s been a good project,” Siren-
tel President Sid Sherstad told Public Service Commissioner Mike Huebsch and Broadband Director Angie Dickison. “Even if we did have some extreme SEE FIBER, PAGE 7
A new choice for property owners Boyd’s Outdoor Power another option for yard equipment BY TODD BECKMANN SENTINEL
GRANTSBURG—Another choice for property owners in the Grantsburg area has popped up on the
horizon when Boyd’s Outdoor Power opened for business in May. “In the scheme of things, we sell new lawnmowers, chainsaws, snowblowers, weed whips, that kind of equipment, but we also repair that equipment,” owner Boyd Dosch noted. “In addition, we have a good selection of late-model John Deere used
mowers. We kind of specialize in those.” Even though the company is small with five employees, Boyd’s Outdoor Power does things right. “We offer a service to the community, we feel we do it at a price which is SEE BOYD’S, PAGE 2
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