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All-Metal Stamping is business of the year
Manufacturing firm got started back in 1956
By Kevin O'Brien
Tucked inside a grove of pine trees just off Business 29 in Abbotsford, All-Metal Stamping often escapes the attention of those passing by. But within the walls of the 30,000 square foot building, a crew of 40 produces a variety of building hardware and fire door accessories that are shipped all over the Western Hemisphere.
The small manufacturing business has a 56-year history in the area, surviving the tragic loss of its founder and flourishing in an increasingly competitive market.
“We’ve been a quiet little company in the background here,” said Jack LaSee, who has operated the company since 1972.
All-Metal Stamping has been named Business of the Year by the Abbotsford-Colby Area Chamber of Commerce and will be honored at the annual banquet on Feb. 12 in Curtiss.
Starting in Dorchester...
Founded by Walter Zuber in 1956, All-Metal Stamping started in an old cheese factory south of Dorchester, where the original product line included TV towers, milk tank valves and other metal fabrications. The company briefly moved to downtown Dorchester, where the products changed to stampings, fish pole tips, paper towel cabinets and brass surveyor rod hardware.
The small town start-up moved to its current location on the west side of Abbotsford in 1957. Zuber was killed 12 years later in a car crash, and by 1982, the company was completely owned by Jack and Dolly LaSee.
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Dorchester takes first look at sewer rate increases
By Kevin O'Brien
Single-person households in Dorchester would experience the largest percentage increase in their quarterly sewer bills under a new preliminary rate structure presented to the village board last week.
Trustees, however, expressed a desire to change this billing formula to more equally spread out the rate hikes among different types of utility users.
Engineer Larry Gotham of Morgan and Parmley outlined his first attempt to amend the village’s sewer use ordinance at a special Jan. 25 board meeting. An increase in sewer rates is needed to pay off a $805,000 loan from USDA-Rural Development for improvements at the wastewater treatment facilities and on South Front Street.
The proposal would increase rates differently based on the water meter size and the quarterly consumption of water at a home or business:
• A single or two-person household using an average of 3,000 gallons per quarter would see its quarterly sewer bill increase by 41 percent, from $33.86 to $47.33.
• An average family home using 9,100 gallons per quarter would see its bill increase by 12 percent, from $81.75 to $91.59.
• A larger-family home and some small businesses using 15,000 gallons a quarter would see its bill increase by 5 percent, from $128.06 to $134.01.
• Businesses using 50,000 gallons with a two-inch water meter would have their bills go up 28 percent, from $402.81 to $516.46.
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Dexter to challenge Moulton in recall race
Former State Representative Kristen Dexter will run for the 23rd state Senate district in the upcoming recall elections. She pointed to Wisconsin’s struggling economy and poisonous political atmosphere as reasons she decided to run during her announcement Tuesday in Chippewa Falls.
“While the rest of the country moves from recession to recovery, Wisconsin has been stuck in reverse,” Dexter said in a press release. She was referencing that Wisconsin has seen six straight months of job losses while the rest of the country saw 200,000 jobs created in December alone. “In addition to a stagnant state economy, tens of thousands of citizens, including nearly 30,000 children, will lose access to Badger Care.”
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Manufacturing firm got started back in 1956
By Kevin O'Brien
Tucked inside a grove of pine trees just off Business 29 in Abbotsford, All-Metal Stamping often escapes the attention of those passing by. But within the walls of the 30,000 square foot building, a crew of 40 produces a variety of building hardware and fire door accessories that are shipped all over the Western Hemisphere.
The small manufacturing business has a 56-year history in the area, surviving the tragic loss of its founder and flourishing in an increasingly competitive market.
“We’ve been a quiet little company in the background here,” said Jack LaSee, who has operated the company since 1972.
All-Metal Stamping has been named Business of the Year by the Abbotsford-Colby Area Chamber of Commerce and will be honored at the annual banquet on Feb. 12 in Curtiss.
Starting in Dorchester...
Founded by Walter Zuber in 1956, All-Metal Stamping started in an old cheese factory south of Dorchester, where the original product line included TV towers, milk tank valves and other metal fabrications. The company briefly moved to downtown Dorchester, where the products changed to stampings, fish pole tips, paper towel cabinets and brass surveyor rod hardware.
The small town start-up moved to its current location on the west side of Abbotsford in 1957. Zuber was killed 12 years later in a car crash, and by 1982, the company was completely owned by Jack and Dolly LaSee.
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Dorchester takes first look at sewer rate increases
By Kevin O'Brien
Single-person households in Dorchester would experience the largest percentage increase in their quarterly sewer bills under a new preliminary rate structure presented to the village board last week.
Trustees, however, expressed a desire to change this billing formula to more equally spread out the rate hikes among different types of utility users.
Engineer Larry Gotham of Morgan and Parmley outlined his first attempt to amend the village’s sewer use ordinance at a special Jan. 25 board meeting. An increase in sewer rates is needed to pay off a $805,000 loan from USDA-Rural Development for improvements at the wastewater treatment facilities and on South Front Street.
The proposal would increase rates differently based on the water meter size and the quarterly consumption of water at a home or business:
• A single or two-person household using an average of 3,000 gallons per quarter would see its quarterly sewer bill increase by 41 percent, from $33.86 to $47.33.
• An average family home using 9,100 gallons per quarter would see its bill increase by 12 percent, from $81.75 to $91.59.
• A larger-family home and some small businesses using 15,000 gallons a quarter would see its bill increase by 5 percent, from $128.06 to $134.01.
• Businesses using 50,000 gallons with a two-inch water meter would have their bills go up 28 percent, from $402.81 to $516.46.
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Dexter to challenge Moulton in recall race
Former State Representative Kristen Dexter will run for the 23rd state Senate district in the upcoming recall elections. She pointed to Wisconsin’s struggling economy and poisonous political atmosphere as reasons she decided to run during her announcement Tuesday in Chippewa Falls.
“While the rest of the country moves from recession to recovery, Wisconsin has been stuck in reverse,” Dexter said in a press release. She was referencing that Wisconsin has seen six straight months of job losses while the rest of the country saw 200,000 jobs created in December alone. “In addition to a stagnant state economy, tens of thousands of citizens, including nearly 30,000 children, will lose access to Badger Care.”
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