Spring Green, Wisconsin
Thursday, May 30, 2024 | Vol. 5, No. 11 FREE, Single-Copy
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Spring Green faces siren problems during storms
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Spring Green experiences emergency siren outage during major storm, one of two sirens sound during Tornado Warning
Sauk County Emergency Management say they were notified of siren outage by media Luukas Palm-Leis, Editorial Intern On May 21, the Spring Green area saw its first major weather threat this spring. Prior to the storm front reaching the area, announcements were made alerting residents of a malfunction with the Village of Spring Green’s emergency sirens, with both sirens themselves thought to be down. During the May 21 storm, area weather field stations reported wind gusts in excess of 60 mph throughout the area and for a brief moment area residents reported up to quarter sized hail. The area was also within a tornado warning after the National Weather Service reported radar indicated rotation, which is a potential precursor to a ground
Photo by Luukas Palm-Leis, Editorial Intern The emergency siren near the Spring Green municipal golf course that failed to sound May 21. tornado, east of the village. At 3:41 p.m. that day, three hours
before the storm hit and the tornado warning was issued, the Spring Green
Fire Department posted on Facebook an announcement alerting residents that both of the village’s outdoor warning sirens were “out of service”, along with a note that residents should share the message and keep track of other outlets for weather news warnings. The post continued that the issue had been discovered the week prior and that repairs had been requested. At 6:43 p.m., just prior to the storm front hitting the village, an Integrated Public Alert & Warning System alert was sent out by Sauk County Emergency Management to area mobile phones alerting that Spring Green’s tornado sirens were not working. This notice advised the area was under a Tornado Watch and also that there was potential
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Kindled Community Sauna rekindles at Homecoming in Spring Green for upcoming ‘Sauna Stories’ this June Amberly Mae-Cooper, Community Contributor Kindled Community Sauna will return to Homecoming Restaurant in Spring Green this June with a new sauna experience. Previously they transformed the vast backyard of the establishment in February to host its “Winter Sauna Series”, its first set of wood-fired sauna and cold plunge sessions. The sauna experience will return to Spring Green this summer, featuring a new special series called “Sauna Stories”. Sauna Stories will be hosted by a variety of community members including Hannah Feller of Homecoming and Reunion Restaurants, Emily Benz of Rural Remedy Yoga and Dr. Mark Timmerman, a provider for Sauk Prairie Healthcare. The series will begin with sauna
Photo by Amberly Mae-Cooper, Community Contributor Saunas set up by Kindled Community Sauna at Homecoming in Spring Green earlier this year. related storytelling and transition into the 75-minute wood-fired sauna and cold plunge session. The Sauna
Stories sessions will end with resting, rehydrating and replenishing with snacks and beverages.
The sauna experience came into the heart of Spring Green through a partnership between Kindled Community Sauna’s owner Jaclyn Ryan and Homecoming Restaurant owners Leah Spicer and Kyle Beach. Ryan, a decade-long ICU nurse and mother of two young children, lives nestled cozily between Madison and the Driftless region and is glad to continue to share her mission of wellness with her unique, gem of a traveling sauna to others near and far. She fondly recollected her first sauna experience as a foreign exchange student in a sauna dorf near Aachen, Germany. Her memorable time abroad furthered her passion and lifelong love of wellness. “The sauna helped me so much.
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