Pabst Farms mall gets OK from Oconomowoc council From Watertown Daily Times OCONOMOWOC Although the Oconomowoc Common Council approved a new Pabst Farms shopping mall and redevelopment project Tuesday, two aldermen brought up concerns that the revised plans would not create a regional draw, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported this morning. But afterward, Pabst Farms spokesman Thad Nation told a Journal Sentinel reporter that the mall would draw regional shoppers because there were not enough local residents to cater to the sprawling project.

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Big-box retailers squeeze out Austin's Cash Wise Foods From www.postbulletin.com "Closing our Cash Wise Foods store in Austin is a difficult but necessary decision for the overall well-being of our company and the customers we serve. Coborn's has offered its 102 employees working in Austin a severance package, and the opportunity to apply for positions within the company, including those related to its new Coborn's Superstore in New Prague, which is set to open this spring.

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Some retailers foresee a bumpy road ahead From Tallahassee.com There is a direct relationship between the American economy and the retail industry: When the former has a cold, the latter has pneumonia. Tallahassee is not immune to the economic problems the country is facing, but because it's a town filled with college students and government workers, the retail industry hasn't stalled. "Every year you hope to have some increase in sales, but around November we knew we were in trouble because of the economy," said Bielec, the owner of the Other Side and...

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Sturgeon spearers keep ties to past From Appleton Post Crescent Acipenser, meaning sturgeon, and vulvescens, meaning a dull, yellow color, are known to grow to over 300 pounds and continue to play a role in the culture of Wisconsin, particularly around Lake Winnebago, which hosts the largest self-sustaining population of lake sturgeon in the world. Thousands of sturgeon hunters haul homemade shanties onto the ice of Winnebago and the upriver lakes of Poygan, Winneconne and Butte des Morts each February in hopes of spearing one of the ancient fish. Since...

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Twists in the tale From Hindu Her recently published memoir, exploring the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, brings to the surface the politics that underlies her plots. Even though detective novels generally support the status quo and are usually not seen as political, she says, "I do believe that crime fiction in particular, maybe more than general fiction, is very political." In her essay for The New York Times series, Writers on Writing, she mentions a letter from a...

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