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or over 100 years the Madison Public Library has been offering its services to the residents of Madison and Lake County.


The library’s collection currently includes books, audio books, DVDs, magazines, as well as public access computers. Other services and programs include free book delivery, monthly book clubs, and occasional speakers and presentations.


hours September thru May


Monday - Thursday 10:00am-9:00pm Friday & Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm June thru August Monday - Thursday 10:00am-9:00pm Friday


10:00am-5:00pm Saturday 10:00am-1:00pm


contact 209 E. Center Street • Madison, SD 57042 Phone (605)256-7525 • Fax (605)256-7526


Director: Nancy Sabbe Children’s Librarian: Dana Neu


madisonpubliclibrary@gmail.com madisonpublic.sdln.net


214 South Egan Avenue, Madison, SD (605) 256-4555 • www.MADISONet.com


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The children’s department offers regularly scheduled programming. Storytime takes place year-round, except during the months of August and December. Children ages 3 thru 5 years of age are welcome to attend Storytime sessions which include theme based books, poems, finger plays, and crafts. The Summer Reading Program and related events are held each summer beginning in May and ending in August.


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outdoor


recreation 81 S


tarting two miles west of the city of Madison, the lakes


Herman, Madison, Brant, Long and Round provide a variety of fishing, camping and water sport recreation. The five lakes total over 7,000 surface acres for visitors to enjoy.


fishing


On and off shore fishing for walleye, perch, crappie, northern, smallmouth bass silver bass and bullhead provide a variety of opportunity for anglers year round. Recently updated boat launching areas on Lake Madison, Herman and Brant allow for easy access to the water.


camping Lake Herman State Park, located two miles west of Madison, is a destination for camping enthusiasts from near and far. The beautiful hardwoods provide a canopy for 72 electrical camping sites, tent only sites and camping


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cabins. Nearby Lake Madison’s Walker Point Recreation Area has 40 electrical camping sites, tent-only sites and camping cabins.


hunting The Madison area and all of Lake County


provide excellent hunting opportunities for pheasant, waterfowl and whitetail deer. Several public hunting areas, both federal and state, are available for hunters to enjoy. In addition to wa- terfowl hunting, the spring migration of ducks and geese to the area attract bird watchers from across the region as huge numbers of waterfowl congregate in the area.


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Serving Interlakes Area readers 50 CENTS | MADISON, S.D. City prepares to finish downtown alley proj


By CHUCK CLEMENT Staff Reporter


The Madison City Commission


authorized a contract on Monday with a Sioux Falls engineering firm to provide engineering services for completing the city’s downtown alley improvement project in 2011. Contractors completed the first


phase of improvements this summer, in which four blocks of alleyway on the east side of Egan Avenue were resurfaced with new concrete. Workers also made improvements to the utilities


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located along the east alley that included placing above-ground electric lines underground and replacing overhead electricity transformers with newer ground- level models. DeWild Grant Reckert and


Associates of Sioux Falls will provide the engineering plans needed to rework utilities and resurface the four blocks of alleyway on the west side of Egan Avenue during summer 2011. According to City Engineer Chad


Comes, phase 2 of the alley improvement project will involve


“the exact same scope of work that they utilized for phase one.” Dennis Poppen, municipal


electric superintendent, told the commissioners that work on Madison’s downtown electric utilities will copy the renovations and rebuilding that occurred this summer. “It’ll basically be the same


program,” Poppen said. In the contract, the DGR


engineers agreed to complete the preliminary design work by Dec. 1, and they will present the final design documents in January 2011.


The bid opening for phase 2 is scheduled on March 1, 2011, with construction starting on May 1. The budget for the phase 2


project was estimated at about $650,000. Flood damage reimbursement T h e c o m m i s s i o n e r s


acknowledged a letter from the S.D. Department of Public Safety that informed them that the city had received about $11,100 in state and federal funds. City was reimbursed to help pay


for repairs to damage caused by flooding that occurred between


March and June. The flood occurred along the Silve waterway in southeast M specifically in the southwes of the municipal wastewater Electronics recyclin


The city has schedul


electronics recycling drop-o 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday Madison Recycling Center, 80 7th St. Local residents can drop of


unwanted electronics dev including desktop and la computers, printers, scanners, and stereo equipment. Sm


Home starts rise building permits


WASHINGTON (AP) — Home


construction rose slightly last month on the strength of single- family homes, but the market was still too weak to propel growth in the battered industry. Construction of new homes and


apartments rose 0.3 percent in September from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 610,000, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. It was the strongest report on home construction since April. Housing starts are up 28 percent from their bottom in April 2009.


Still, they are down 73 percent from their peak in January 2006 and 4 percent below the 1 million annua rate that analysts say is consisten with healthy housing markets. The industry is “showing signs of


stabilization and perhaps even a faint pulse,” wrote Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR Inc. in New York. August’s figure was revised


upward to an annual rate of 608,000 from an earlier estimate of 598,000. Construction was driven by a 4.4


percent monthly increase in single- fami ly homes, the second f


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