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The Sauk City Library is offering curbside pickup. It will be available by appointment Monday- Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Step 1: Place holds

The Army is planning to hold its next RAB meeting as a virtual meeting on May 7 at 6 p.m.  This RAB is being conducted virtually to maintain social distancing as required by Wisconsin’s Stay at Home order and protect the health of the community during the COVID-19 response. 

Dane County will remain under an Emergency Declaration until at least mid-summer County Executive Joe Parisi announced today. In consultation with Public Health Madison-Dane County, Parisi is extending the order currently in place until at least July 15th.

Another flood-damaged Mazomanie home was torn down last week. This house, located on Bridge Street, was torn down on May 1. For more photos see page 2.

Three Dane County executives with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services have filed a non-party brief with the Wisconsin Supreme Court in support of Governor Tony Evers’ extension of the “Safer At Home” order that keeps much of the state’s economy shut down until late May. 

What is a child growing up in a large family, a former assembly line worker and CNA, a retired special needs and elderly advocate and a person who sews called? (This is not a joke!)

In last week’s issue, Dane County Board member Michele Doolan’s first name was expelled incorrectly in the headline.

In the same issue, the turnout percentage for the town of Mazomanie was incorrect. It should have read 54.2 percent.

The Star News regrets the errors.

COVID-19 has limited or closed many public and private services in Wisconsin, and Public Libraries have not been immune. That has changed slightly with Gov. Tony Evers’ most recent Safer at Home Order.  

Despite a month of increasing deaths in their counties, Dane and Sauk County residents are relaxing their compliance with the Safer at Home order, according to data from the University of Maryland. The University used anonymized and aggregated location data from mobile devices and other sources.

Thousands of people turned out at the Wisconsin statehouse in Madison to protest Gov. Tony Evers’ Safer at Home order on April 24, the original date the order was scheduled to end.