Article: Check your guns

Jim Stingl

Check your guns, knives, and your Boscobel Dial

By JIM STINGL

of the Journal Sentinel staff

Wednesday, August 9, 2000

Someone once pasted a photograph of the editor of the Boscobel Dial to an envelope and simply wrote Boscobel under it. The local post office had no trouble figuring out it went to the newspaper.

As the cliche goes, everyone knows everyone in a small town. The trick in this southwestern Wisconsin city of 2,800 is keeping the 278 incorrigibles on the edge of town from sharing in that familiarity.

So the inmates at the Supermax prison, which opened in Boscobel in November to cater to the disruptive demographic among the criminally inclined, have been told the local ...

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