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🎻 Concerts on the square are back!
June 24, 2024 · ✏️ Thank you to Bryan M. Vance for editing the newsletters this past week!
Good morning, Madison! I hope everyone had a restful weekend and stayed cool. I wanted to remind everyone that the Best of Madison voting is still open! Don’t forget to vote for Madison Minutes for Best Local News Website, and City Cast Madison for Best Local Podcast. Voting is open until June 30 🗳️
We would love for both the newsletter and the podcast to bring home the gold
What's CITY Talking About?
⚠️ Vandalism at Schoep’s Ice Cream Headquarters
- On Thursday night, people were spotted vandalizing the outside of Shoep’s Ice Cream headquarters. Two suspects ran away, but one was apprehended.
- A woman has been arrested and charged with criminal damage to property. [27 WKOW]
👋🏼 Will We Mesh?
- Michael Orosz-Fagen developed Mesh, a service to group four people together to create potential friendships. These groups meet at different cafés on Saturday mornings in Madison.
- Orosz-Fagen has been working on this for that past year and a half. Mesh launched in early April in Madison. [MJS]
🍎 The Need for Funding
- On Monday, the Madison Metropolitan School District board will meet and vote to decide if they should ask voters to approve nearly $600 million in funding on November’s ballot.
- The money would pay for things like teachers' salaries and renovations.
- These referendums would increase the average homeowner's taxes by about $1,000 in the next couple of years.
- Related: Why public interest lawyers say MMSD is the least transparent government body in all of Wisconsin. [Cap Times, 🎧 City Cast Madison]
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What To Do
Monday, June 24
- The Brittingham Players at Leopold's Books Bar Caffe
- Motown Mondays with DJ Fuzzy Duck at Lola's
- Native Plants and Pollinators at Library
- Rigby-Oke at The Rigby
- SEED Festival at Four Winds Farm
- Service Industry Night at Delta Beer Lab
Today on City Cast
Play the Fanfare! It’s Concerts on the Square!
Welcome back to Concerts on the Square! This free weekly summer concert series, which kicks off this Wednesday, is organized by the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and has been a staple Madison tradition since 1983. City Cast Madison podcast host Bianca Martin sits down with Music Director of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Andrew Sewell to learn more about the programming, best practices, and impact of these concerts for music lovers.
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