📝 Silver Dollar’s legacy lives on

🚃 Have Thoughts on the Train Station?

• The city is hosting two public meetings in upcoming weeks to present information and get community input on where to potentially build a new Amtrak station.
• The city has evaluated eight potential passenger rail station sites in three general corridors — downtown, First Street, and by the former Oscar Mayer plant. A recent study of the locations gave the downtown spots top marks.
• The details: The first meeting is Jan. 30 at Madison Municipal Building from 5 to 7 p.m. The second meeting will be held virtually Feb. You can find all of the meeting information here. [City of Madison, Isthmus]

🎨 Calling All Artists

• The Bubbler at the Madison Public Library is inviting local artists to apply for paid residencies and exhibitions available throughout 2024.
• The Bubbler Room within Central Library is a public creative space focused on visual art and hands-on learning. This year’s residency is focused on creating installation within the space by fostering a sense of community through collaboration. Applications close March 4. [Madison Bubbler]

🍻 The Spirit of the Silver Dollar

• In case you missed it, one of Madison’s oldest bars, the Silver Dollar will pour its last drink Feb. 3. But the spirit of the historic bar will live on in the soon-to-come $160.5 million Wisconsin History Center opening next door on the Capitol Square. The bar’s fourth-generation owners donated the tavern’s 1930s mahogany bar and other memorabilia to the historical society, which it will put to use in its fifth-floor gathering and event space. [Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin State Journal]

If you feel like January is everlasting, you’re not alone. But thankfully, we’ve made it to the end of the week, which can only mean one thing: time for some floof.

Meet Marcel. This rescue pup has a gentle but mischievous soul, as perfectly illustrated in the pictures above. The orange paper is actually his “Good Dog Behavior” certificate. (Or rather, it was his certificate.) And despite his penchant for destruction, Marcel is full of love.

Share your floof with the Madison Minutes community!

Voting Maps, Brain Maps, and Road Maps

The City Cast team is here to round up the news of the week. Bianca Martin, Hayley Sperling and Molly Stentz recap Wisconsin’s quest for new political voting maps and the huge new grant UW-Madison landed to study Alzheimer’s. Plus, we skid across town looking at Madison roads after the big storms and ask why the U.S. DOT is banning our sassy road signs.