"This proposed hotel, with 80 vacation rooms, 30 villas and over 300 parking spaces, is significantly out of scale with the surrounding area," Baraboo resident Jessica Bartley said.

In 1912, historian H.E. Cole wrote, “John Brink, a surveyor from Crystal Lake, Ill., named Leach Lake and creek from the fact ...

The osprey is in decline in one of its key territories and some scientists blame overfishing of menhaden, an important food for the birds. The osprey is a fish-eating raptor ...