BLUE MOUNDS TARGETS SPEEDERS.(LOCAL)(SUSAN LAMPERT SMITH)(Column)

From: The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | Date: January 3, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Susan Lampert Smith

Welcome to Dane County. That'll be $109.

In the interest of fairness, I thought I'd let readers in on a local secret on the county's western edge.

I'm talking about the Blue Mounds speed trap on Highway 18-151, not far from where the four-lane highway crosses from Iowa County into Dane County.

You probably don't know you're in the village there, since there are open fields all around, but the village annexed land south of the highway for an industrial park a few years ago. So now the village cops like to sit on Highway F, tucked in ...

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