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Husband-and-wife CEOs steward Johnsonville and Culver’s
The companies, people and issues shaping business in Madison and the Capital Region. Don Fussner prefers “Below Deck” to “Real Housewives,” but nevertheless a reality television watch is an essential element of the Friday ritual that brings the CEO of Johnsonville and his wife Julie, CEO of Culver’s Franchising in Prairie du Sac, back together after a busy workweek.
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Frank Lloyd Wright home up for sale
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Seamstress Vera Stillmank leaves lasting legacy in bridal industry after six decades of service
JANESVILLE — When Jennifer Kapinus was a little girl, she told her grandmother, Vera Stillmank, exactly how she wanted her First Communion dress to look. She wanted puffed sleeves. She wanted lace in a particular place. She had a vision in her head, and Stillmank — a talented seamstress and longtime bridal shop owner — didn’t tell her granddaughter what she thought would look better. She just made it. Then she made a matching dress for Kapinus’ American Girl doll. For generations of women across Southern Wisconsin, Stillmank was much more than “grandma.” She was the woman behind the dress. Stillmank died Sept. 18 at the age of 96. She spent more than six decades helping women find dresses for some of the most important moments of their lives. Along the way, she and her husband, James, built Vera’s House of Bridal, a family business that expanded into Madison and has helped bring dresses from all over the world into Wisconsin. A white colonial style farmhouse on the south side of Janesville is where she and her husband raised their seven kids and began their bridal shop. Currently closed, the building will reopen when renovations are complete. In October of
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CHS holds ceremonial groundbreaking for Evansville facility
Community leaders, growers, industry partners and government officials joined CHS on Oct. 7, 2026, to celebrate a ceremonial groundbreaking for the planned CHS soybean processing facility in Evansville, Wis. The facility is expected to process 80 million bushels of soybeans annually, producing approximately 1 billion pounds of soybean oil and...
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Grandad’s Farm Stop sells Wisconsin-grown items on consignment
The Cap Times is an independent newsroom serving Madison and Wisconsin. Sign up for the Food & Culture newsletter for exclusive weekly insight. Sam Crownover, president of the Regent Neighborhood Association, likes sharing local things with guests visiting Madison. “The ORIGIN granola is my personal favorite ... we love Tart...
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From Hollywood to healthcare, Dapper Cadaver’s lifelike props fill a unique niche
The companies, people and issues shaping business in Madison and the Capital Region. Christopher Nolan’s scene in “The Odyssey” of the sacking of Troy has a Madison connection: The synthetic corpses used as stunt dummies to depict the horror of the conflict were designed, sculpted, molded and painted here before being shipped to Morocco where parts of the film were shot.
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Janesville career fair connects students with construction trades
JANESVILLE, Wis. (WMTV) - Nearly 400 students took part in a hands-on construction career fair Thursday in Janesville. JP Cullen hosted the event, helping teach students what the industry has to offer. Students from high schools across south central Wisconsin participated in the event. Students checked out mockups, participated in...
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Evansville soybean crushing plant to feed biofuel industry
Hello, Rock County! Here are your top Friday headlines. Wisconsin immigrant advocacy organization Voces de la Frontera is assigning a network of election observers and community volunteers ahead of the Nov. 3 election, citing concerns that if federal agents or law enforcement are stationed near polling places, it could intimidate voters. Japanese tourists love Edgerton and Wisconsin because of the city and state's ties to the Sterling North-penned children's novel "Rascal," which Japanese people revere because it was adapted into a 1970s anime series. A group has established the "Rascal Trail," a new network of tourist stops curated because of ties to both Rascal, and pieces of Japanese culture embedded in Wisconsin. Stops are in Edgerton, where Sterling North grew up, and in Madison, Milwaukee and Jefferson, among other communities statewide. Do you have a story you'd like the Gazette to follow? Let us know with an email to The Gazette's City Editor, Neil Johnson at neil@gazettextra.com!
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Madison Makers Market to hold Oct. 30 ‘Nightmare on East Wash’ market
The companies, people and issues shaping business in Madison and the Capital Region. The Madison Makers Market will hold the next installment of its Shop Tenney series with a Halloween special on Oct. 30, from 3 to 8 p.m., at the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra Center for Music, 1118 E. Washington Ave.
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Verona keeps high rating from Moody's, debt levels expected to grow
VERONA, Wis. -- The City of Verona kept its Aa1 credit rating from Moody's, the second-highest available, city officials announced Thursday. The city is bolstered by positive economic growth in the region and healthy reserves. The rating puts Verona in a good position to invest in its infrastructure. "Maintaining our...
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Shell Lake FFA members attend World Dairy Expo
MADISON — Five Shell Lake FFA members traveled to Madison to attend World Dairy Expo, one of the largest dairy events in the industry. The experience gave students an opportunity to learn more about the dairy industry while seeing firsthand the many careers, businesses and opportunities connected to agriculture. Four Shell Lake FFA members competed in the dairy judging contest. Owen Leckel led the Shell Lake team as the chapter’s highest-placing competitor, followed by Brayden, Rachel, and Jesika. In addition to competing, students had the opportunity to explore World Dairy Expo and see the many different aspects of the dairy industry represented at the event. From dairy cattle and judging to equipment, technology, products and agricultural businesses, the expo provided students with a look at the size and diversity of today’s dairy industry. Shell Lake FFA is excited to have a full dairy judging team competing again. The team will continue preparing throughout the school year as they look ahead to FFA Regionals in March 2027. A special thank you goes to Ringa-Lea Farm for allowing the Shell Lake FFA dairy judging team to train on their farm and practice evaluating their dairy cows. Opportunities like this provide students with
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Madison Plan Commission approves 187-unit apartment building in west side
While Madison continues to build up, the city is looking at plans for another multifamily building away from downtown. The city of Madison Plan Commission on Monday approved request to change an existing conditional use to allow construction of a four-story, 187-unit apartment building at the southwest corner of Elderberry Road and Bear Claw Way. The proposed development site is currently farmland.
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CHS soybean crushing plant in Evansville will be heavily tied to biofuels
EVANSVILLE — The official start of agribusiness cooperative CHS’s work to build its landmark, $700-million Evansville soybean crushing plant came Wednesday with ceremonially-tossed dirt, politicians’ speeches and word of a new focus for the future facility: biofuels. CHS company officials, one Federal lawmaker, and the U.S. Agriculture Department’s deputy director all touted the plant’s soybean seed oil extraction-and-refining business at the future Evansville crushing plant as being tied largely to the domestic production of biofuels. That’s a pivot from earlier plans to fully refine seed oil for food-grade use at CHS’s Evansville plant. CHS Executive Vice President John Griffith said the company reshaped the scope of seed oil processing planned at Evansville because federal policy shifts are pressing for growth in domestically-produced renewable fuels. Soybean farmers had been particularly hard-hit by federal policies that saw producers particularly harmed by tariff-fueled reductions in export capacity, and domestic use is adjusting to a new normal. Griffith said the biofuel market has become the primary market for soybean oil. “With the (federal) policy support and the push for more on the biodiesel front, we decided to change the scope, not go to full food-grade RBD oil,” he said in an interview following the