No applications having been filed, there will be no Land Use Committee (LUC) meeting this month.   Any applications for action in December 2019 are due by December 2, 2019.  The December meeting, if there is business for the meeting, will be held on December 16, 2019.

The annual meeting of the Belleville, Exeter and Montrose Fire and EMS District will be held on September 30, 2019.  The meeting will start with board members from the constituent municipalities having dinner at Borlands in Belleville at 7 p.m., and will continue with the formal meeting at 8:00 p.m. at the Belleville Village Hall.

The Town was notified that the Wisconsin Asphalt Paving Association (WAPA) has two engineering scholarships available, with online applications due by November 7, 2019. One is for study of engineering in college, the other for study of engineering technician certification in technical college.  More information is available at http://www.wispave.org/wapa-scholarships/.  

As no applications have been received this month, there will be no Land Use Committee meeting in September, 2019.  The next scheduled meeting is on October 28, 2019, with any applications to be submitted by October 14, 2019.

Enjoy Labor Day, but don’t put out your trash and recycling.  Pellitteri’s will pick up for the Town of Montrose on Tuesday, September 3rd.

The Fire and EMS District meeting will be held on 22 August 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Belleville EMS Building

On September 12, 2019 Jerry Apps, the author of “Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm”, will be giving a talk about his book, including reminiscences from the 1940’s and 1950’s.  The event will be at the Belleville High School Auditorium at 7:00 p.m.  Further information is available at https://www.bellevillelibrary-wi.org/simple-things-jerry-apps.

Open Book will be held on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 between 3 and 5 p.m.  Board of Review will be a week later, on Wednesday, September 25, 2019, between 6 and 8 p.m.  If you have any issues you want to raise, the assessor would be happy to discuss them with you and answer any questions informally before these events.  Our assessor is Bruce Gardiner, and you can reach him at Gardiner Appraisal Service, 608-943-8009. 

No applications requiring the consideration of the Land Use Committee (LUC) have been received as of August 12, 2019.  Accordingly, the August 26, 2019 meeting of the LUC is cancelled.

Our apologies.  The town’s phone is out of order.  The Frontier technician is due to work on it in the morning on Monday, August 12.  The town’s computer is functioning – e-mail to montrose@chorus.net will get through.  If the problem is not fixed by the afternoon of the 12th, more information will be provided.