February 2025

Acting on a recommendation from City Finance Director Bill Burns, the Middleton Common Council on Feb. 4 approved a reallocation of nearly #3.2 million in Capital Project Fund Carryover money for 2025 projects.

The City of Middleton is getting a 15-square foot, $60,000 glass sculpture for the new Lake Street Park, thanks to a 7-1 vote on Tuesday Feb. 4 approving the awarding of the commission for the sculpture to The Milligan Studio.

The phone rang, and when Tom Schmitt didn’t recognize the number, he ignored the call.

It was Thanksgiving morning after all, and there were a million things to do before settling in for turkey and football.

The caller was persistent, though, and when Schmitt’s phone rang a third time, he picked up.

Boy, was he glad that he did.

On the other end was Mark Fuller, an Executive Board member with the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association. And Fuller gave Schmitt one more reason to be thankful on that memorable Thursday, telling Middleton’s former baseball manager he had been elected to the WBCA Hall of Fame.

Schmitt will be inducted at the Madison Marriott West in Middleton on Saturday at noon.

“Well it means a lot and it means that we’ve done the right things and had a successful program,” said Schmitt, who was Middleton’s manager from 2003-2018 before retiring. “Statewide people recognize Middleton’s achievements on and off the field.

After lengthy discussion the Middleton Cross Plains Area School board voted to approve a resolution authorizing the borrowing of an amount not to exceed $10,485,000 to fund sustainability projects, but tabled a motion to approve the specific projects until more details can be provided by district officials and McKinstry Essention, LLC  at the February 10 board meeting.  The resolution as passed “puts forward to the