📝 Sheriff's Dept. getting body cams

🚨 Sheriff’s Dept. Piloting Body Cams

• The Dane County Sheriff’s Office West District will test out using body-worn cameras for one year. The goal of the pilot program is to increase transparency between the Sheriff’s Office and the communities it serves.
• The West Precinct serves the townships of Berry, Black Earth, Blue Mounds, Cross Plains, Dane, Mazomanie, Middleton, Montrose, Oregon, Perry, Primrose, Roxbury, Springdale, Springfield, Vermont, Verona, Vienna, and Westport. Residents of these communities are invited to participate in public information meetings about the project later this month. [WMTV15, Dane County]

🥕 Goodbye, Harvest

• After 20 years of business, Harvest on the Capitol Square announced it won’t reopen after its pandemic-induced shutdown. Harvest opened in 2000 serving fine dining cuisine. In 2005, its sister restaurant opened, the wildly popular Old Fashioned. The owner decided to permanently close Harvest, which has been on hiatus since 2020, to focus her attention more fully on the Old Fashioned. [Wisconsin State Journal]

🏆 Make Us Madison’s Best

• ‘Tis the season for Best of Madison nominations and we’d be so stoked if you nominated Madison Minutes in the “local news website” category and City Cast Madison in the “local podcast” category. You can vote once per day in each category per valid email address and the submissions are open through the end of the month. [Madison Magazine]

An Angler’s Guide to Ice Fishing in Madison

The lakes are finally frozen which means it’s time to break out those fishing rods and worms…it’s ice fishing season! And there are some spots around Madison this year that are brimming with biting fish. Host Bianca Martin gets the inside scoop from chief worm wrangler Pat Hasburgh, owner of D&S Bait, Tackle, & Fly Shop. Pat shares what the conditions have been like on the lakes so far this year and which spots in town you’re almost guaranteed to catch a fish.