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C-2 The Post-Crescent, Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, Wis. www.postcrescent.com REGIONS STATE ro), VITALS nfed dtefei -IliiEsslly to I Report: State on pace to hit revenue were slightly behind. But Chandler said there is nothing yet to suggest the state's tax collections will be significantly off from January projections by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau revised its estimates of the state's tax collections Secretary Rick Chandler released a quarterly report Monday on the state's economic outlook. It found sales tax collections of $2.7 billion for the first 10 months of the fiscal year were slightly ahead of projections, while income tax collections of $3.9 billion storm hits southeastern Wisconsin mum s' I I2)l The Associated Press MADISON Tax collections through the first 10 months of the fiscal year are close to the projections made in January, suggesting the state's budget deficit will not grow much beyond the current $1.1 billion projection, the state's top revenue official said Monday.

Department of Revenue Abrupt Strong winds, falling trees lead to power outages The Associated Press Thunderstorms packing lightning and winds of up to 50 miles an hour swept through southeastern Wisconsin Monday, cutting power for thousands, knocking down trees and canceling classes for some students. Kenosha police Sgt. John Morrissey said the Vnlfov strong i Tj winds that SOakeCl came in Dale got 2.2 Monday inches of rain morning boats' age facility hard. "It came in quick," Morrissey said. "At Captain Jim's, one of the yachts was blown off a stand and into a fence." Strong winds and falling trees knocked down about 200 power lines and lightning damaged some We Energies equipment in Kenosha and Racine counties, company spokesman Chris Iglar said.

About 18,000 customers lost power, Iglar said. Iglar said power was restored to about 10,000 WORKERS REMOVE A DOWNED TREE along 1 2th Avenue Frosty conditions take toll on Door County cherry crop DEATHS AMUNDSON, Dennis; 61, tola. BRENNAN, Edith; 80, Potter. HERTEL, Hilaria 85, 2331 Wisconsin New Holstein. HIRTE, Walter; 88, Weyauwega.

JAGLA, Lawrence 72, Apple-ton. JESKE, James 49, E10850 County Clintonville. KNUTSON, Donald; 82, tola. LAPINSKI-HENDRICKSON, Brandon 19, Weyauwega. MORRIS, John; 82, Appleton.

MUNSCHE, Doris 85, Pine Manor Health Care Center, Embarrass, formerly of County Clintonville. ROHDE, Edward 96, Town of Bear Creek. STEVENS, Catherine; 56, Hor-tonville. WESTPHAL, Lydia 92, Apple-ton. DEATHS ELSEWHERE DINGELDEIN, Dewey 70, Norman, formerly of Appleton.

FENSKY, Delores; 91, Shawano, formerly of Neenah. GERTZ, Thomas 65, St. George, Utah, father of David Gertz, Apple-ton. LINDELL, Dora; 80, North Las Vegas, formerly of Waupaca. ALLERGY ALERT" ALLERGY COUNTS are number of pollens and mold spores per cubic meter of air.

Counts in the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. yesterday were: MOLDS, 1,024 (moderate) POLLENS, 100 (very high) Source: Kagen Allergy Clinic St. Elizabeth Hospital POLICE REPORT INJURY ACCIDENT, State 54 and Ferry Street, Northport. Christopher Dalbec, 25, Bancroft, received non-life-threatening injuries about 2:30 a.m. Sunday when he reportedly ran a stop sign on Ferry Street and hit the trailer of a semitrailer truck driven by Robert Peters, 50, Green Bay.

Witnesses told authorities that Dalbec was traveling at a high rate of speed and did not try to stop for the stop sign. Dalbec was taken by ambulance to New London Family Medical Center. COURT REPORTS" OUTAGAMIE COUNTY POWELL, Chad 21, 112 E. To-bacnoir St, Kaukauna. Placed on probation for 18 months and ordered to serve 90 days in jail for criminal damage to property, stemming from a domestic disturbance Feb.

24 in Kaukauna. SCHAVET, Joshua 17, N1443 Julius Drive, Greenville. Placed on probation for two years for negligent handling of burning materials at Hortonville High School on July 10,2001. SCHUELER, Robert; 20, 327 E. Wolf River No.

1, New London. Sentenced to 10 days in jail for possession of drug paraphernalia in New London on March 26, 2001. ROSIN, Jamie 24, 319 Maes Kimberly. Placed on probation for one year and ordered to serve 20 days in jail for battery Sept 8 in Appleton. WIGGINS, Brian 27, 11 2912W.

Lawrence Appleton. Placed on probation for three years and ordered to serve 60 days in jail for possession of THC with intent to deliver in Appleton on April 13, 2001. MARRIAGES WAUPACA COUNTY Andrew VOSS and Nikki THOMACK, both Town of Bear Creek. Troy TRAVNICEK and Judy PAUUK, both Clintonville. Adam JONES, Franklin, and Jamie NEWBY, Town of Scandinavia.

Jonathan RIGGERT, Manning, Iowa, and Jocelyn REDEMANN, Fremont Matthew SPENCE, Darboy, and Cristi ANDERSON, Farmington. Robert LIESKE and Lorraine FENN, both Waupaca. Christopher BOWRON and Stephanie ROTZ, both Rochester, Minn. Scott LECUS and Denise KERRIGAN, both Farmington. projections get that Gov.

Scott McCal-lum signed in August. A committee of lawmakers is trying to reach a compromise on a revised budget to fix the shortfall. Other report findings: After four successive quarters of job losses, employment is expected to re- AP photo by BillSiel Monday. 750 people lost power and 1,400 people were without power in Beloit, Elkhorn and Lake Geneva, Schoen-herr said. Power was restored by Monday afternoon, he said.

Lightning struck an apartment building in Stoughton, causing $20,000 in damage before the fire was contained. tree, depending on the blossom's stage of development. The frost hit hardest May 18 and 19, literally nipping cherry trees in the bud or what is called the crucial "water stage" about seven to 10 days prior to blossoming. filed by the Green Bay Press-Gazette. sin-River Falls head football coach.

Pierce County Dist. Atty. John O'Boyle said last week he likely would not continue to pursue the charge because Judge Robert Wing would not allow a portable blood alcohol test into evidence against John F. O'Grady. But O'Boyle said Monday that he changed his mind after traveling the highway where O'Grady had his accident on Sept.

14. It was about two miles from where a 21-year-old Minnesota woman was killed by a drunken driver last summer on State 29. SAUK COUNTY Man charged with killing motorcyclist BARABOO A man accused of killing a motorcyclist with his car Saturday and fleeing the scene by jumping into Lake Wisconsin was charged in his death. Kelvin M. Kasemodel, 44, of rural Merrimac, was charged Monday in Sauk County Circuit Court with homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, hit-and-run driving resulting in death, third-offense drunken driving and fourth-offense driving after license revocation.

Police believe Kasemodel cut off, the victim, Aaron Frosch, 31, of Sauk City, while turning his car toward a resort. sume growing this year. But the department predicts an annual job growth of about 1 percent, half of what it was during the 1990s. Total personal income will grow 3.3 percent this year after declining in the fourth quarter last year. Unemployment is expected to peak at 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2002.

Tribe can set water standard The Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a lower court decision that gave the Sokaogon band of Chippewa Indians the power to set water quality standards on its reservation downstream from the proposed Cran-don zinc and copper mine. Those standards, higher than those set by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, mean that Nicolet Minerals Co. would have to return water from the Forest County mine at the same pristine quality it was before it came into contact with the mine. Dale Alberts, president of Nicolet Minerals, said Monday the company could comply with the stricter limits.

Alberts said the company believes it can extract 55 million tons of zinc and copper, and smaller amounts of lead, silver and gold, without harming surrounding groundwater. "We decided that we could comply with their, nondegradation standard, and we intend to do so," he said. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago had ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can allow the Sokaogon band to regulate waters on its reservation.

The court case pitted the Sokaogon and the EPA against the DNR. The EPA argued that Congress authorized that federal agency to treat the American Indian tribes the same way as states. SHEBOYGAN COUNTY Property owner's fines exceed $1.1 million SHEBOYGAN A Sheboygan property owner now owes more than $1.1 million in fines for housing code violations after a default judgment on her most recent case last week. Dina Z. Matlin, 75, was fined $236,808 for 62 housing code violations on three properties.

Prior to her court date, Matlin owed $864,000 in unpaid fines. The city is trying to foreclose on her 53 properties. She owns 28 residential properties, six business properties and 19 vacant lots. WAUKESHA COUNTY 2 Candidate was granted immunity in state probe WAUKESHA A candidate for Waukesha County clerk is one of several caucus workers who was granted immunity from prosecution in the criminal investigation into illegal campaigning on state time. Kathy Nickolaus, 42, a Republican, said she hopes voters will accept her role in the ongoing scandal -but she can't talk about it.

Nickolaus worked for 13 years as a data analyst and computer specialist for the Assembly Republican caucus, one of four GOP and Democratic legislative groups that are now under scrutiny. in January after tax collections fell dramatically of the economic recession that was exacerbated by the Sept. 11 attacks. It projected the state would take in $1.1 billion less over the two-year period that began July 1 than it had expected in crafting the bud in Kenosha following a storm trees and power lines and helping residents whose homes had been damaged by fallen trees. Neither department reported any injuries.

About 7,000 customers in Janesville were without power for about 12 minutes, said Chris Schoen-herr, spokesman for Al-liant Energy. In Dane County, about growers won't have as many, and others will be hoping prices benefit from the shorter supply. The Cherry Marketing Institute based in Lansing, has noted "significant damage" in that state, where most of the nation's tart cherries grow. Oddly, frost picks and chooses even on the same BRIEFING Waukesha lllwaukee forming a citizens review board to monitor county government from a county office equipped with a computer. After meeting with members of Citizens for Responsible Government last month, Walker granted their request for a spot on the new council and found a courthouse office for the council to meet.

I PIERCE COUNTYlO Prosecutorwon'tdrop case against coach ELLSWORTH A prosecutor says he won't request dismissal of a drunken driving citation against the University of Wiscon f-M ILLINOIS customers by Monday afternoon. The Racine Unified School District asked parents to pick up children from two elementary schools and canceled afternoon kindergarten because of power outages, said Linda Flashinski, the district's community relations director. Power also went out at Door County E. "One day you're planning to add something new, and the next morning you wake up and that's all over," Grenchik said. Record low temperatures across the cherry-growing areas of the northern U.S.

this spring have damaged some orchards and pushed the EDANECOUNTen Pension recall leader joins Thompson's staff MADISON A leader of the recall effort that grew out of Milwaukee County's pension scandal took an unpaid position with Ed Thompson's gubernatorial campaign Monday. The Thompson campaign named Bryan Olen as the Libertarian candidate's Milwaukee County coordinator, spokesman Josh Morby said. He will oversee volunteer efforts and appearances in the area, Morby said. Thompson said he hoped Olen would help him win support from the voters who joined him in the recall effort. rMWAUKECCQUNlfJ Busiestrampswill be open during project MILWAUKEE State engineers said Monday they will not close down the three busiest freeway-to-freeway ramps during a four-year construction project at the Marquette Interchange, downtown's massive freeway crossroads.

The ramps connect southbound 1-43 to westbound 1-94, eastbound 1-94 to northbound 1-43 and eastbound 1-94 to southbound I-43I-94, officials said. They will stay open along with two lanes in each direction for drivers Somers Elementary School in Kenosha, but classes were still held, Principal Richard Baas said. Baas said the school's windows provided enough light to hold class. The Racine and Kenosha sheriffs departments were busy conducting traffic on roads that were blocked by fallen cherry blossom period back two weeks. Wisconsin's only large-scale cherry-growing area Door County sustained damage mostly in the northern half.

Orchards along the roads are only now reaching full bloom. Cherries will be available this fall, but some WISCONSIN IOWA heading straight through downtown on 1-94, 1-43 and 1-794 from late 2003 to late 2007. Five other major ramps, including all links between 1-43 and 1-794, will be closed for extended periods, some more than two years Walker promises seat on council for recall group MILWAUKEE Newly elected Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker has promised a seat on a new citizens council to a recall group that endorsed his candidacy. Walker touted a 10-point, reform plan in his bid for office, which included Ashland Baraloo mauuon I CHlGAN jSmj 'T Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers Norb Grenchik started the year with plans to purchase a third cherry-pitting machine and expand his business. But that was before the temperature dropped below 30 degrees three nights running at Rocky Ridge Orchards, 3482 OSHLAND COUNTTl Man waives hearing in Internet sex case ASHLAND A 27-year-old man accused of kidnapping and having sex with a 14-year-old girl he met online waived his right to a preliminary hearing Monday.

Jamie Ness, 27, Green Bay, was released on a $10,000 signature bond and ordered to have no contact with the girl or unsupervised contact with any minors. Ness was charged in May with child abduction-and second-degree sexual assault of a child. According to a criminal complaint, Ness went to the girl's Butternut home April 27 before taking her to his home to have sex. Prosecutor named Ashland County DA ASHLAND A former special prosecutor was named Ashland County district attorney Monday. Gov.

Scott McCallum appointed Sean P. Duffy to the post left vacant by the resignation of Dist. Atty. Michael Gableman, who will be an administrative law judge for the Department of Workforce Development. Duffy will fill the remainder of Gableman's term, which expires Jan.

5. He said he plans to run for a full term in office in November. i.