A6 | SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 2017 WEATHER BARABOO NEWS REPUBLIC

TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Scattered Partly Chance of Mostly Partly sunny. Partly thunderstorms. cloudy, thunderstorms. cloudy, cloudy. isolated chance of showers showers. 80 60 72 55 72 53 73 54 77 60 81 62 REGIONAL FORECAST REGIONAL CITIES NATIONAL FORECAST We will start the day with partly cloudy skies. As a frontal boundary moves Yesterday Today Tomorrow Yesterday Today Tomorrow Yesterday Today Tomorrow through the region, showers and thunderstorms will develop in the City Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/W x City Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/Wx City Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/Wx afternoon and evening hours. Appleton 82/64/pc 80/62/t 73/56/sh Albuquerque 98/57/s 100/68/s 93/66/pc Memphis 91/70/r 93/77/pc 90/71/t Ashland 80/51/fg 75/53/t 66/50/sh Anchorage 66/46/s 63/46/pc 63/47/pc Miami 89/76/r 87/77/t 85/78/t TODAY’S OUTLOOK 85/67/r 86/68/t 80/60/pc Atlanta 86/67/r 88/71/t 90/72/t Minneapolis 86/65/s 77/59/t 70/56/sh Dubuque 84/64/r 82/62/t 75/56/pc Billings 80/58/r 72/49/pc 79/54/pc New Orleans 91/75/r 89/76/t 88/76/t Eau Claire 82/57/fg 78/58/t 69/53/sh Boise 73/61/pc 76/54/pc 85/58/s New York 69/63/pc 78/68/t 81/71/pc Superior Green Bay 85/61/fg 80/62/t 74/55/sh Boston 71/58/pc 77/69/t 83/71/t Oklahoma City 96/66/pc 96/73/pc 83/65/pc 68/52 Hurley Marquette Hayward 82/50/fg 76/54/t 65/49/sh Chicago 85/67/r 86/68/t 80/60/pc Orlando 86/72/r 91/74/t 92/74/t Ashland Cleveland 91/70/pc 89/73/pc 84/65/t Philadelphia 82/65/pc 84/73/t 89/74/t 74/52 70/54 Ironwood 80/51/t 75/54/t 62/49/sh 76/52 Janesville 87/66/pc 84/64/t 76/56/pc Dallas 95/79/pc 97/78/pc 96/75/pc Phoenix 109/76/s 110/81/s 114/86/s La Crosse 86/64/fg 79°/60/t 72°/55/sh Detroit 87/64/r 88/72/t 84/63/sh Portland, Ore. 65/58/r 73/55/pc 81/58/pc Hayward Madison 86/69/pc 82/62/t 75/56/sh Honolulu 86/72/t 87/75/pc 88/75/pc Salt City 92/63/pc 81/57/pc 85/61/s 76/54 Iron Mountain Marquette 77/53/fg 73/58/t 69/52/sh Houston 95/77/pc 93/78/pc 93/77/pc Seattle 68/54/r 68/54/pc 74/56/r 79/59 Milwaukee 86/72/t 81/64/t 77/58/sh Kansas City 90/66/r 94/65/t 81/59/pc St. Louis 92/74/r 94/71/t 82/65/t Rice Lake Rhinelander Rhinelander 79/56/fg 76/56/t 65/50/sh Las Vegas 107/79/s 110/85/s 111/86/s Tucson 105/68/s 106/71/s 110/75/s 76/56 76/56 St. Paul 84/64/s 78/60/t 69/56/sh Los Angeles 88/64/s 84/65/s 85/65/s Washington 84/70/pc 88/73/t 91/75/t Superior 82/51/fg 70/51/t 64/48/sh Weather systems and precipitation forecast for noon tomorrow. Wausau 80/58/fg 78/58/t 69/53/sh Temperature color bands are tomorrow’s predicted highs. St. Paul 76/59 Eau Claire RIVER LEVELS Antigo H 79/58 IInternationalnternational BBangorangor 76/56 Site Stage (ft.) Change FallsFalls Wausau Green Bay PPortlandortland L 77/58 79/61 Baraboo River BBillingsillings L BBostonoston BBoiseoise L Appleton RRapidapid near Baraboo 9.89 0.24 MMinneapolisinneapolis DDetroitetroit NNewew YYorkork 79/61 CCityity Rock Springs 11.41 0.15 SSanan SSaltalt LakeLake WWashingtonashington DD.C..C. Rochester FFranciscorancisco CChicagohicago CCityity OOmahamaha L 77/58 La Crosse LLasas CCincinnatiincinnati 79/61 Fox River L VVegasegas H DDenverenver SSt.t. LLouisouis Princeton 6.52 0.33 CCharlotteharlotte LLososL OOklahomaklahoma Beaver AAngelesngeles MMemphisemphis Portage Pardeeville 7.86 -0.02 AAlbuquerquelbuquerque CCityity Decorah L AAtlantatlanta 81/61 81/63 79/59 River DDallasallas Prairie du Chien Milwaukee OOrlandorlando Madison Wisconsin Dells 11.41 0.35 NNewew 83/61 79/63 HHoustonouston OrleansOrleans 83°/61 Portage 12.04 M MMiamiiami Janesville Prairie du Sac Dam 774.03 M H 83/63 YESTERDAY'S EXTREMES Waterloo Dubuque Hottest: 116°, Death Valley, CA 81/61 82/62 Rockford UV INDEX Coolest: 33°, Leadville, CO 83/65 + The UV index 0 Map temperatures shown are today's highs and overnight lows. Chicago 10 LowExtreme Showers and thunderstorms will move through the East as a forecasts the 2 Forecasts data provided by ©2017, The Weather Company, LLC 85/68 8 cold front pushes through the region, stretching into the ultraviolet radiation 4 VeryModerate high 6 southern Plains. Scattered showers and storms will be coming from the 6 HighHigh TEMPERATURES SUN & MOO N sun. The higher the 48 possible over the Upper Midwest. 2 ModerateVery high Statistics for yesterday 8:42 p.m. 5:17 a.m. number the more 10 Set: Rise: 0 High ...... risk of sun damage + ExtremeLow High...... 86° Set: 1:09 p.m.Rise: 1:15 a.m. to your skin. Low ...... Low...... 69° New First Full Last INTERNATIONAL FORECAST Normal highhigh...... 78° POLLEN FORECAST Yesterday Today Tomorrow Yesterday Today Tomorrow Normal lowlow...... 57° Predominant: Grasses Sat Predominant pollens: City Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/Wx City Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/Wx Hi/Lo/Wx Last year’shighyear's high...... 71° Last year’slow ...... Sun Amsterdam 64/57/pc 74/57/pc 83/60/pc Mexico City 78/57/r 82/56/pc 82/56/s Last year's low...... 60° Athens 86/68/s 83/68/pc 74/63/r Montreal 66/59/pc 84/69/pc 88/70/t Jun. 23 Jun. 30 Jul. 9 Jul. 16 Mon Low Medium High Baghdad 106/79/- 110/82/s 111/82/s Moscow 60/48/r 67/52/pc 73/55/pc low med high Beijing 102/66/s 96/75/pc 97/71/pc Paris 73/57/pc 82/62/pc 89/64/s PRECIPITATION IN THE SKY Berlin 69/57/r 74/54/pc 78/59/pc Rio 78/64/pc 83/64/s 85/65/s Cairo 95/73/s 100/74/s 102/80/s Rome 91/73/s 92/68/pc 89/64/s Last 24 hours...... An hour after sunset, a region called the "Realm of the COOLINGCOOLING DEGREEDEGREE DAYS DAYS Last 24 hours...... 0.00" Galaxies" is high in the southwest, surrounding Leo the Hong Kong 87/78/r 84/79/t 85/82/t Singapore 91/77/t 88/78/t 87/78/t Month to datdate e...... 2.32" Lion and Virgo the Maiden (where bright Jupiter is An index of energy consumption indicating how Lima 62/0/c 66/62/pc 66/62/pc Stockholm 71/55/pc 75/58/pc 79/54/r currently located). This area contains many distant many degrees the day's mean temperature was London 73/53/pc 85/60/s 86/64/r Sydney 62/55/fg 64/56/r 63/56/r Year toto datdate e ...... 17.98" galaxies that can be seen through telescopes. Venus above 65 degrees. Normal year toto datdate e...... 14.25" rises at 3:22 a.m. Mars sets at 9:27 p.m. Jupiter sets at Madrid 102/69/r 105/71/s 104/72/s Tel Aviv 84/71/pc 89/70/s 90/71/s 2:08 a.m. Saturn sets at 5:52 a.m. Yesterday ...... 12 Manila 91/78/r 91/80/t 90/80/t Tokyo 80/68/pc 80/65/s 77/66/c *Precipitation is the liquid equivalent of snow, WeatherWeather codes codes key: key: Wx = weather; s = sunny; ff == fair;fair; pcpc = = partly partly cloudy;cloudy; cc = = cloudy; cloudy; ice, and rain. Source: Morrison Planetarium, Month to date ...... 118 California Academy of Sciences Season to date ...... 133 h h=haze;= haze; fgfg=fog; = fog; sh sh == showers;showers; rr == rain;rain; dz=drizzle;dz = drizzle, t =t thunderstorms;= thunderstorms, sn sn = snow;= snow; sfsf= = flurries; i = ice; w w=windy; = windy; mx=wintery mx = wintry mix mix Wax museum set for Lake Delton

ED LEGGE [email protected] LAKE DELTON – One gigantic gorilla will soon join likenesses of at least three local luminaries around the building of a planned new attraction on Wisconsin Dells Parkway, Jason Field said follow- ing the village’s twice-monthly board meeting June 14. The gorilla — also known as King Kong — will alight atop a miniature skyscraper above the attraction, while along one fa- cade of the building the Mt. Rush- more-style, “carved” faces of Tom Diehl, Kay Mackesey and Nick JASON FIELD, CONTRIBUTED JASON CUEVAS, CAPTIAL NEWSPAPERS Laskaris will stare out upon all A “granite carved” set of likenesses akin to those on Mt. Rushmore will WISCONSIN DELLS HOUSE FIRE CONTAINED who pass by along the Wisconsin greet visitors to the new attraction, and those likenesses may include a Dells Parkway, Field said. A fourth few Lake Delton luminaries, according to the attraction’s owner-operator. Kilbourn Fire Department fi refi ghters and Dells-Delton EMS members luminary, perhaps local and per- work to put out a fi re at 1119 Bowman Road in Wisconsin Dells. There haps not, will join them, he said. Construction should start by intervening months. were no injuries from the fi re which started in the basement. The cause Whether the sometimes joc- the end of this summer, Field said, Field’s proposal for the new of the fi re is under investigation. ular Field is truly serious about with a March 2018 opening as the attraction was the lone item on immortalizing the three village ultimate goal. the Lake Delton Plan Commis- STATE BRIEFS government and business leaders “It’s going to be exciting,” said sion’s agenda June 14, and the — and whether the three well- Field, who confi rmed his fam- village board readily approved known area residents will allow ily has owned the building since the concept, exterior design and Body of man who tried to sister. their likenesses to be used — re- 2011.”People coming down the height variance during its twice- save boy recovered from mains to be seen. Parkway are going to know they monthly meeting later that day. 3 pedestrians struck by But Field’s plan for the former arrived in a Field family enter- In other business, the board river out-of-control driver in site of the local nightspot known tainment center.” heard a brief video about the suc- WAUSAU (AP) — The body of as Club Wett, at 1470 Dells Park- Field said the new attraction cess of Kids’ Ranch in nearby Rock a Rothschild man missing on the Milwaukee way, is legitimate to the extent will be designed to attract fami- Springs and the literacy organiza- in Wausau has MILWAUKEE (AP) — Author- that he received approvals from lies, much like the numerous other tion’s importance to the commu- been recovered. ities say three pedestrians were the Village Plan Commission and businesses he and his family own nity and the region. Divers on Friday found the seriously injured when a driver Village Board for the concept and and operate along that part of the The board also approved fi re- body of 41-year-old Dominic lost control of her car in Milwau- unique exterior treatment for the Dells Parkway. works displays for July 4 at several Flaminio following a search that kee and struck them. building. “We’ve got Noah’s Ark and Mt. Lake Delton establishments (Wil- began Thursday. Police say the 35-year-old The attraction inside will fea- Olympus next to us at the Army derness, Mt. Olympus, Kalahari WAOW-TV reports Flaminio Milwaukee woman accelerated ture about 150 wax celebrity like- Ducks, Jetboats and Zipline,” he and Great Wolf, with a 30-min- was with his girlfriend and her around a vehicle and was at- nesses in what Field said will be said. “Those are all family attrac- utes limit for all) and outdoor children in the river near Memo- tempted to beat a traffi c light “an interactive attraction.” tions, so it’s only natural to add musical performance permits for rial Park. Police say Flaminio was when she lost control of the Both the commission and the another family activity there.” Kalahari and Great Wolf, the latter attempting rescue his girlfriend’s car, struck the three and then a board included in their approval Club Wett closed in September through June 2018. 8-year-old son who had been building. a height variance so that King of 2015 after operating as a night- swept away by a current. Fla- Three men, ages 34, 37 and 59, Kong’s skyscraper can be appro- club and entertainment venue Follow Ed Legge on Twitter minio disappeared under water. were taken to the hospital. The priately tall enough for the giant at that location since 2011. The @DellsEd. Contact him at The boy was rescued by his older driver was also transported. simian to climb. building has gone unused in the 608-432-6591.

Claims “It was his decision,” Kleczek complete the investigation before But a Milwaukee labor attorney in-house, including the time card Bolin said. “He brought up the fact informing other committee mem- says that, in cases like this, con- issues and cost overages on a stor- From A1 that he wanted to retire.” bers. tinuing the inquiry may be in the age building. That inquiry is be- She said it was the outside at- More than six weeks after his public interest. ing handled by Interim Highway “yelling at employees, personal torney, Lubinsky, who recom- retirement stopped the inquiry, “A resignation or retirement Commissioner Darin Carignan, use of county equipment and ma- mended that the county end the highway committee members had may resolve the employment side who previously worked under terials, changes to the job that the probe due to Muchow’s retire- not been informed of the matter. of the ledger, but there remains Muchow as an offi ce manager. employee’s time was billed to, and ment. Lubinsky has not returned The full county board learned the citizens’ and taxpayers’ in- Complete details of the alle- cost overages on the construction a phone call or email seeking com- about it earlier this month through terest in knowing what actually gations against Muchow remain of the truck storage building.” ment. an anonymous letter, which also occurred,” Jeff Hynes said. unclear. The county has not fully No one promised him the probe With the investigation incom- alleged that Kleczek Bolin sough Termination of Muchow would responded to a May 19 public re- would end if he retired, Muchow plete, Muchow retired in good to keep the investigation under have required a two-thirds vote cords request fi led by the Baraboo said, adding that he never spoke standing with the county. It’s not wraps. by the county board, because he News Republic. with investigators. clear how much he has since been Kleczek Bolin denied that, say- is an appointed offi cial. Hynes On Thursday, the county re- Kleczek Bolin, who initiated the paid, or if he received any benefi t ing she takes complaints against said such proceedings can lead leased some documents, including inquiry after receiving complaints payouts. Sauk County Controller the county seriously. “That is a to heated exchanges and threats redacted legal bills and Muchow’s from employees, said she had a Kerry Beghin did not respond to baseless allegation,” Kleczek Bolin to air dirty laundry, which is why resignation notice. The release of conversation with Muchow the an email Friday seeking informa- said. the parties often pursue other op- other records related to the in- day he gave notice of his retire- tion. She said it’s not necessary to tions. vestigation still is under review, ment. She said she never encour- Kleczek Bolin said she told continue an investigation once Although the outside attor- offi cials said. aged him to retire, or promised Sauk County Highway Commit- an employee has retired, because ney’s work ended when Muchow that the investigation would go tee Chair Tim Meister about the that person can no longer be dis- resigned, the county continues Follow Tim Damos on Twitter away if he did so. ongoing probe, who asked that she ciplined. to investigate two related matters @timdamos

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