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Friday, September 13, 2019 • Vol. 6, No. 7 • Fitchburg, WI • ConnectFitchburg.com • $1 Kathy Bartels
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From left, A.J. Horne, Matt Sutter, Colin Christenson, Casey Schmidt, Corey Dahmen, Dave Berman and chief Joe Pulvermacher stand outside Fire Station No. 3. The fire station is the first on the east side of the city.
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Residents on the eastern side of the city near Syene and Clayton roads have a new neighbor. And this new neighbor is hoping it doesn’t get too many noise complaints. Earlier this month, the Fitchburg Fire Department and Fitch-Rona EMS moved into Station No. 3, the first fire/EMS station on the eastern side of the city.
The $8 million, 26,832 squarefoot facility is the second new fire station in the city in two years, and is designed to be the last for a while, accommodating continued growth on the city’s east side and an eventual incorporation of part of the Town of Madison. “We’re very fortunate that now we actually have a building on the east side of the city,” FFD deputy chief of operations Chad Grossen said. “We’re really excited that now we can have a better response on
this side city, especially as it continues to grow.” Fire Station No. 3 joins its slightly older sibling, Fire Station No. 2, which was finished in the summer of 2017 on Marketplace Drive, and Fire Station No. 1 on Lacy Road, which is under renovation from a functioning fire station to house the offices of department administration and serve as an emergency operations center for the city. Ke e p i n g t h e a d m i n i s t r a t ive offices at the Lacy Road location
allowed for Station No. 3 to have a smaller design, saving the city around $1 million, chief Joe Pulvermacher told the Star last week during a tour of the new fire station. Half the fire department staff works out of each station, Grossen said, with staff being delegated based on station needs and the staff member’s distance to each location. The new station includes living amenities for fire department staff,
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Historical society documents businesses Initiative adds more post-incorporation history and expands website CONNOR WOOD Star correspondent
Allan Tereba has been working for the past three months to collect and write histories of Fitchburg businesses. PRSRT STANDARD ECRWSS US POSTAGE
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With more than 750 businesses in Fitchburg, there’s a lot of work to do. Tereba, the Fitchburg Historical Society president, said the organization has previously collected a lot of material connected to early settlement and up through the Supreme Court case that allowed Fitchburg to incorporate in April, 1983. However, he thought it would be helpful to collect more recent materials. “The businesses, having
the histories of those, is just as important as having the history of the ‘20s or back in the 1800s,” Tereba said. Carole Kinney, one of the founders of FHS in 1987 and a current board member and archivist, said she got involved partly because her husband’s roots in the area went back to 1844. She has watched and helped the organization over the past 30 years. The FHS goal, she said, is to present that “History is
yesterday, today and tomorrow.” And just as importantly, to make sure it’s easy for people to find. “ We d o n ’t wa n t t h i s information just to be stuck in files here that we have in our office and in our storage area in the Fitchburg Library,” Kinney said. “We want to get it out.” Tereba has been adding the business histories to the FHS website. Some,
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About FHS What: Fitchburg Historical Society Members: About 60 to 70 people at its annual meeting in the fall. Location: Fitchburg Room on the second floor of the Fitchburg Public Library Website: fitchburghistory. org
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