The Village of Oregon approved a contract for the school resource officer (SRO) in the Oregon School District that runs until Dec. 30.

Three long guns and at least three vehicle keys were taken during three burglaries in the Bergamont neighborhood Monday morning, the Oregon Police Department reported.

Soon to be placed violent sex offender Ritchie H. Dumer will not be allowed to leave his Town of Rutland home without supervision for at least a one year period and will wear a GPS monitoring device on his ankle for life, county officials said at a community notification meeting on Monday, Aug. 12.

Some owners and managers told the Village Board on Monday they’re frustrated with their attempts to pass alcohol compliance checks.

The village and town of Oregon have been working to establish an agreement on Lincoln Road maintenance and improvements for more than two years.

It’s taken two years for the Dane County Department of Human Services to find a home for the convicted sex offender who will be placed in Rutland within the next week.

The West Nile Virus has arrived in Dane County in the form of infected mosquitoes, though less than 1% of people infected with the virus will become seriously ill, according to a July 29 Public Health Madison and Dane County news release.

A violent sex offender will be moved into a home in the Town of Rutland “on or before” Aug. 15, the state Department of Health Services confirmed Monday.

Three businesses have failed alcohol compliance checks, two for the second time in a year.

An as yet unidentified man has been hospitalized after suffering injuries in an early morning single-vehicle rollover crash in the Town of Rutland, according to a release from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.

A 47 year old Brooklyn man died in a motorcycle versus SUV crash in Madison in the early morning of Friday, July 19.