📝 Explaining WI’s new voting maps

🚲 BCycles Are Back

• Signs of spring are all around us, just look at the bike racks. Madison’s bike sharing program BCycle has started bringing bikes out for the 2024 season. You can find a BCycle doc near you with this map.
• Related: Looking for an epic bike trip? We’ve got you covered.[BCycle, Madison Minutes]

🎓 Meet UW’s Spring Commencement Speaker

• Three-time Olympic medalist and former Badger Meghan Duggan will give the keynote speech at UW-Madison’s spring commencement ceremony in May. Originally from Massachusetts, Duggan earned a bachelor’s degree from UW in biology in 2011. While at UW she played on the women’s hockey team and competed in four NCAA championship games and won three.
• In 2018 Duggan was captain of the U.S. Olympic hockey team and led the team to its first gold medal in women’s hockey in 20 years. [UW-Madison]

🌳 Be the Library’s Next Naturalist in Residence

• Madison Public Library in partnership with Madison Parks is searching for a local naturalist to lead workshops, guided walks, and programs for the community this summer.
• Related: Meet one of the past Naturalists in Residence, Qwantese Winters, a local doula, artist, agriculturist, and TV host. [City of Madison, City Cast Madison 🎧]

🍩 Remembering Madison’s ‘Donut Man’

• Family and community members gathered to remember Marvin “Marv” Miller, the founder of Madison’s Greenbush Bakery who died earlier this month at 82. As an aspiring business owner, Miller opened Greenbush Bakery on Regent Street in 1996. In the nearly three decades since opening, Miller’s business has flourished, becoming a Madison staple known for its donuts.
• Miller’s grandson took over the day-to-day business operations eight years ago and promises the business will remain a mom-and-pop shop for years to come.
• Related: Looking for a local sweet treat? Start here. [Wisconsin State Journal, Madison Minutes]

Madison’s New Approach to Fighting the Opioid Epidemic

Madison Fire Department ambulances and community paramedics now carry a new drug to help people recover from opioid withdrawal.

They’re one of a handful of departments in the state — and possibly the country — to carry this drug.