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4/10/08
UW Credit Union will begin construction of a new, full-service branch in the Market Place Area.
4/2/08
A new Kwik Trip was approved by the Sun Prairie City Council at the April 1st meeting. The location for the new store will be just south of the corner of Hwy C and Hwy 19 at 2599 Ironwood Drive. The business will have a gas station with twenty pumps and a gas canopy. Along with the usual gas selections, the station will also have pumps for E-85 and Diesel. The store we also sell beer and wine and other convenience items. The gas station and the store will be open 24 hours a day. Construction will begin this Summer and probable opening expected in the Fall.
O'connell Pharmacy, in the Market Place is now open for business.
3/15/08
Burrachos Fresh Mexican Grill is NOW OPEN!
Burrachos will have Burritos, tacos, nachos & salad custom built before your eyes! Burrachos specializes in providing customers with their food prepared the way they want it.
Cost Cutters in the Market Place Building is NOW OPEN!
Woodman's Food Market
Woodman's Food Market received approval to build a a 225,000 square foot grocery store.....
Super Target In Sun Prairie (Click Here)
Prairie Development, Ltd. has sold some of its property, which is located on the Northwest corner of the intersection of Hoepker Road and Highway C, in the city of Sun Prairie to Target.
Click here for more information on the Super Target and Prairie Lakes Development in Sun Prairie.
Market Place In Sun Prairie (Click Here)
Pictures updated 10/9/2007
New construction on Sun Prairie's West Side is booming with the start of construction of the Market Place building.
Firemen's Park In The Prairie (Click Here)
The Firemen's Park In The Prairie Organization has almost finished the new park for kids in Sun Prairie. Click here for more info and lots of pictures of the Firemen's Park In The Prairie. Please be patient because the images are quite large but are much nicer to look at.
Get a FREE downloadable Grocery List for Copps in Sun Prairie. Click here.
Speed up your grocery shopping by knowing where everything is at on this simple grocery list. Just circle the items you need and then pick them up as you go down the rows. Don't waste your time wandering around trying to find things.
Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival Parade (Click Here)
The Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival Parade took place on August 16th, 2007. The parade started at 6 PM and took about one and 1/2 hours to complete. Throughout the parade, the children spectators were treated to many opportunities for free candy handouts from businesses that had "floats" or cars or trucks in the parade. Click for more info and pictures from the Sweet Corn Festival Parade.
Sample Sun Prairie, Cannery Square (Click Here)
There was a fundraiser today, July 28th, 2007, to raise money for firemen's Park in Sun Prairie. The event took place in Cannery Square located in downtown Sun Prairie. Click here for more info on the Sample Sun Prairie fundraiser. Sample Sun Prairie coincided, this year, with the Sun Prairie Maxwell Street Days on Saturday.
35th Annual Flags of Freedom Parade (Click Here)
The 35th annual "Flags of Freedom Parade" which was hosted today, June 30th, 2007, by the "Sound of Sun Prairie," began at 2 p.m.and ran from the corner of Ruby Lane and Main Street to Market Street. It was a beautiful day for a parade. Sunny, with temperature of about 76 degrees.
The Flags of Freedom Parade was led off with the VFW as the color guard. Click here for more info on the Sun Prairie Flags of Freedom Parade.
Annual Taste Of The Arts Festival in Sun Prairie (Click Here)
The 26th Annual Sun Prairie Taste of the Arts Fair was held Saturday, June 9th, 2007 at Sheehan Park, Sun Prairie.
20th Annual Sun Prairie Strawberry Fest (Click Here)
The 20th annual Sun Prairie Strawberry Fest was held today, June 16th, 2007, at the Colonial Club Senior Activity Center. It was a beautiful, sunny, hot day with temperatures into the upper eighties.
Cannery Square Block Party (Click Here)
In conjunction with the Sun Prairie Strawberry Fest, the Cannery Square Block Party takes place just a few short blocks away. Both of these events are open to the public and free to get in.
Sun Prairie Farmer's Market (Click Here)
The market offers farm fresh produce, poultry (chicken) duck goose, lamb, jams, jellies,preserves and a whole lot more! From the freshest of fruits and vegetables, handcrafted soaps to garden art, Sun Prairie has it all.
Groundhog Day Celebration, February 2nd, 2008
St. Albert the Great Church, Sun Prairie, was the location where Jimmy the Groundhog made his annual weather prognostication for 2008. Jimmy also announced that he is running for President. Click for more Groundhog Day in Sun Prairie info.
March 4th, 2008
SSM Health Care of Wisconsin has finalized the purchase of former site of Pathway Community Church at the intersection of Hwy 151 and Reiner Road in Sun Prairie. The parcel is seventeen acres. The stand-alone emergency medical facility is anticipated to open in March of 2009. There is enough land in the parcel to allow for expansion that could include a future hospital.
Flad Architechs of Madison has been selected to design the site and the facility.
August 9th, 2007
The present site of Pathway Community Church will be the location of a brand new Emergency Medical Facility. SSM Health Care of Wisconsin and the city of Sun Prairie reached an agreement to build the new medical facility which is just South of the Sun Prairie subdivision of Smith's Crossing.
The options for emergency care in the Sun Prairie area have been a 26 minute trip to Columbus or an ambulance trip to downtown Madison which would take about 23 minutes or more with sirens on.
Sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary and based in St. Louis, Mo., SSM Health Care (SSMHC) is one of the largest Catholic systems in the country. The system owns, manages and is affiliated with 20 acute care hospitals and two nursing homes in four states: Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Oklahoma. SSM owns St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin.
Providing emergency services will be Madison Emergency Physicians, whose 23 emergency doctors work in emergency rooms at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison and Upland Hills Health in Dodgeville. Madison Emergency Physicians will also begin covering Columbus Community Hospital in July of 2008.
The city of Sun Prairie Wisconsin is located in Dane County and is a suburb of Madison Wisconsin. The 2000 census put the city's population at 20,369. Sun Prairie is the 5th fastest growing city in Wisconsin. It is expected to double in population by the year 2020. We are located just east of Madison on Highway 151. The highway has recently been expanded to three lanes starting from I-94 and going all the way to Main Street in Sun Prairie. The city is preparing for the big expansion in population by expanding the city to the West, past Highway 151 and to Highway "C". Highway C has also been expanded and it runs four lanes from Highway 19 and right up until it intersects with Highway 151, South of Hoepker Road. There is a building boom going on in this new area with a brand new Copps Food Store at the corner of Hwy 19 and Hwy C. Walgreens is also building a new store on this corner.
Sun Prairie History:
In 1837 a group of forty five men were commissioned by President Van Buren to go to Madison to build a territory capitol. They left Milwaukee and arrived fourteen days later on June 9th, 1837. Because they had spent many days of their travel in the rain, when the arrived at the edge of the prairie with the sun shinning, they carved the name "Sun Prairie" into a tree. One of the men that was amount the party was August Bird. Charles Bird came to "Sun Prairie" two years later and was the first settler in the area. Today, one of Sun Prairie's main streets is "Bird Street."
Georgia O'Keeffe, the famous artist (1887-1986 ), was born on a dairy farm in Sun Prairie Wisconsin and is probably the most famous person from the area. There is a Georgia O'Keeffe celebration every year and there is a street named after her.
Sun Prairie is flanked by Windsor on the West and Marshall to the East. In fact, Highway 19, which goes towards Windsor is called Windsor Street in Sun Prairie.
Sun Prairie City Council and Plan Commission Meetings on Live TV on Channel 12 on Charter Cable and they also repeat. Live meetings start at 7pm.
City Council Meetings air the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the month.
Plan Commission Meetings air 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month.
School Board meetings air the 2nd & 4th Monday of the month.
All of these meeting are re-aired on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each week. School Board Finance Committee Meetings and Special School Board Meetings are also aired on KSUN-12 check our schedule for airing times.
Sun Prairie High School also has sports broadcast on channel 12.
If you are unfortunate enough to live close to the City of Madison but still in Sun Prairie, ignore this section because all you will get to see is Madison meetings, sports and productions. Thank you for nothing, Charter Cable.