Stocker named Beloit police chief
Ryan Stocker, former deputy with the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, was named Beloit Chief of Police on Aug. 18.
Evening Chamber meeting
The Washington Chamber of Commerce is hosting its first evening meeting in several years, in an attempt to get more folks to come and participate. We’ve heard some people are unable to come during the regular noon meetings because of work conflicts. The evening meeting is tonight at 7 p.m. at the east shelter of [...]
Big hail
Guess we missed this one. Channel 49 news was in Haddam last week doing a story on the huge hail they had there. We have pictures of some 3.5″ diameter hail, but we’ve also heard of 5″ diameter “grapefruit-sized” hail from the storm last week. Cynthia is working up a story for this week.
Saturday night vandalism
Duckwall’s manager Mike Bergstrom just told me that there was vandalism out front of Duckwall’s on Saturday night. The large flower pot was turned over, the glass on the announcement board was broken and there was beer cans everywhere. It seems like most nights when I come to town late at night for something at [...]
