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Story updated as of August 11, 2023.

By Phoebe Petrovic

Wisconsin Watch

On July 16, 2023 around 7:30 p.m. several residences near the village of Merrimac were damaged by high intensity straight line winds. Downed trees damaged several homes and temporarily blocked roadways. Damage wass primarily South of Hwy.

The USDA has declared natural disaster areas in a handful of Wisconsin counties due to insufficient rain this spring and summer.

Sauk and Dane counties are among the roster, which includes Columbia, Iowa and Jefferson counties.

By Betty Schlough

Dane and Sauk Counties are entering “Extreme Drought” categories climatologically.

Pat Nachreiner, 62, a Plain native who police accused of striking and killing a bicycle rider last summer, pled guilty to the charges of Hit and Run-Involving Great Bodily Harm in Sauk County court June 23^rd. Nachreiner was set to face trial on July 10. During Nachreiner’s court appearance the victim’s family was in the courtroom.

The Sauk City Fire Department was called out to a house fire at 2:08 p.m. on June 29, joined by Prairie du Sac Fire, Merrimac Fire, and Sauk Prairie Ambulance, on Carolina Street. Upon arrival Sauk Fire found the house fully engulfed in flames from multiple sides. Firefighters quickly achieved a knockdown on the front of the house.

The Highway 12 and County Z intersection in Prairie du Sac township was the scene of a multi-car crash and a fatality on July 4^th.

By Natasha Paris, Sam Bibby, and Josh Kamps

UW-Extension Sauk County