Welcome Alex Salazar as the new Bilingual Clerk for Dane County Extension

We’re excited to introduce Alex Salazar as the newest Bilingual Clerk for Dane County Extension. Prior to joining our team, Alex served as an LTE COVID-19 Response Specialist at Public Health Madison and Dane County. Now, he brings his invaluable experience to Extension, where he is eager to make a positive impact on our programs. […]

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Welcome Jonatan Garcia as the new FoodWIse Office Operation Associate

We are delighted to welcome Jonatan Garcia as the new Office Operations Associate for Dane County FoodWIse. With extensive administrative experience gained through internships with Centro Hispano and Latino Chamber, and as an administrator and salesperson for his parents’ commercial cleaning business, Garcia has a proven track record of success. During his tenure with his […]

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Nadia Alber joins the Dane County Extension as the 4-H Associate Educator.

Nadia has worked with kids and young adults (K-12) for a long time, and her primary interests are experiential learning, livestock farming, and kids. After graduating from college in 2004, until she started graduate school in 2009, Alber taught in private and public schools, on farms, at outdoor education centers, and in after-school programs around the […]

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Local Government Leadership Academy Graduates Recognized at WCA Conference

Fifteen individuals, including two from Dane County (Julia Arata Fratta, Fitchburg, and Jacob King, Sun Prairie), were recognized this month for completing the Wisconsin Local Government Leadership Academy. Their graduation took place at the Wisconsin Counties Association annual conference in the Wisconsin Dells. The Local Government Leadership Academy is a collaborative effort between UW-Madison Division […]

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Now Available! 2022 Dane County Plat Book

The book offers detailed information about county roads, rural land ownership, parks and outdoor recreation opportunities. Additionally, the book details land ownership, approximate parcel size, and county and town roads. It also shows the locations of Dane County parks, publicly owned lands, churches, schools, cemeteries and municipal halls. Other unique features of the book include […]

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Dane County Emergency Notification System – Are You Registered?

COUNTY OF DANE Department of Emergency Management JOE PARISI, County Executive       CHARLES A. TUBBS, SR., Director Dane County’s Emergency Notification System is used to alert people and provide important information during an emergency.  In the event of an emergency, officials can identify the affected area and send a message that describes the situation and recommends […]

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Simpson Street Free Press & Dane County UW-Extension

During the summer of 2018, Dane County UW-Extension will be hosting staff writers from the Simpson Street Free Press, a nonprofit newspaper and youth center that teaches critical thinking and writing skills in hopes of bridging Madison’s achievement gap. Learn more about the student writers and read the articles they have written in the sections below. Articles […]

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