By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor
A simple boundary and road dispute discussed at Tuesday’s Town of Wilton Board meeting may actually be a preliminary move to create a quarry.
Stanley Graewin asked the board to grade and gravel a town road on his property so that a buyer could reach a 40-acre piece that actually is in the town of Tomah. Graewin presented documentation that indicated that in 1940 the property had been declared a town road. He said he could find no indication that the town had ever abandoned it, although the municipality has not maintained it either.
Brian Schultz disputed Graewin’s claim, saying that when he had bought his property, the survey had included the road property and that he had been paying taxes on it ever since.
Town Clerk Becky Pitel said the road was not listed on state documentation used to distribute transportation aids.
As the conversation proceeded, Graewin revealed the buyer of the property was Kraemer Construction and that if the town failed to upgrade the road, he felt certain Kraemer would do so.
Schultz, on the other hand, argued that Kraemer could not improve a road that he (Schultz) owned.
The town board declined to make a decision on the matter without doing further research and tabled the matter until the May meeting.
Other business
• The board approved a contract with Radcliffe, Mubarak and Berry of Tomah to represent the municipality in the lawsuit filed by Larry and Vickie Ross and Scott Grenon, who are contesting the approval of a Mathy quarry in the town. The contract stipulates a $200-per-hour fee and any necessary and reasonable costs incurred.
• Last month the board was concerned that Mathy had agreed to four monitoring wells in the quarry, but the plan showed only three. On further inspection, the board saw that two of the wells were close together and one had been overlooked.
