Stoughton Trailers is hiring again and is expected to add dozens of jobs over the next few months, a company official said.
The Stoughton-based manufacturer of intermodal equipment is projected to hire 10-12 workers per week this quarter and is currently evaluating projections beyond that, according to Keith Wise, community relations manager.
“This is kind of following the projections of the industry,” Wise told the Hub last week. The company has been rebuilding its work force over the last couple years, a trend that also had been noted in the company’s nomination in this year’s Manufacturer of the Year honors.
Company officials in early 2011 had hoped to add as many as 500 employees by the year’s end. It ultimately added 300, bringing its total work force to 800 in 2011. Monday, January 23, 2012
Fire guts Dunkirk home Authorities on Monday were unsure where exactly in the chimney the fire originated, but a combination of an older home and dry tinder likely caused the blaze that destroyed the home at 2398 Stebbinsville Road, said Scott Wegner, deputy chief of the Stoughton Fire Department. The house was built in 1895, and Wegner said the house is likely a total loss.
Boys basketball: Potential sectional final game taken by Stoughton Stoughton boys basketball head coach Matt Hockett and DeForest head coach Craig Wesibrod talked before Saturday’s Badger Challenge first-place match at Mount Horeb High School, and decided it would be great to have the two teams meet for a third time in the sectional final this season.
Stoughton, which is ranked No. 5 in the Associated Press Division 2 poll, survived a late rally Saturday to win 46-42, but the Vikings have to travel to DeForest on Feb. 9 for a rematch.
Since the two teams are in different regionals, it is possible that a third meeting can come in the sectional final.
Moyer's UW-Platteville gift exults in the future There are a lot of gardens dedicated to looking back on the past. But a Stoughton family business is helping to build a garden that looks toward the future.
Walker, Evers advance education reform plans Stoughton school officials will be looking at the details that follow from a series of proposed statewide education reforms first announced last week.
The proposals outlined by Gov. Scott Walker cover everything from school accountability and teacher evaluations to literacy and are drawn from work done by several task forces.
[Photo by Joe Koshollek]
Gary Holloway clears snow with his snowblower on East Prospect Street in Stoughton during the first snowstorm of 2012. Several inches of snow and colder temperatures replaced near-record high temperatures that the area experienced earlier last week.
