Seems like forever since Stuart Road has been accessible. Can you find out the proposed opening date?

Seems like forever that road has been a sore spot with local residents. First, many homeowners along the route objected to the widening project, arguing it would kill the rural ambience.

Several months into the project, the stressor has become the construction itself.

Village Administrator Mike Andreasen said the timetable on Mount Pleasant's Web site is an accurate gauge of the roadwork south of Spring Street. Most recently, as weather has allowed, he said work crews have been installing curbs.

Once those have cured, the schedule calls for workers to spread asphalt from Sept. 17-24. While it doesn't account for potential weather delays, the timetable calls for completion between Sept. 22 and the end of the month.

You can follow the construction update at: http://www.mtpleasantwi.gov (look for the link on the left side of the page).

I found a clear glass soda bottle marked "Ideal Bottling Co., Racine, Wis." Does anyone remember this place?

Gerry Karwowski says he does. He lived a block or so from a building the company had at 943 Marquette St.

His memory yields little beyond that, and the structure is long gone. Luckily, he studies local history pretty closely and has those among his extensive collection of bottles.

Karwowski's research suggests Ideal began bottling in the mid-1920s, give or take a few years. By that time, he said, the bottles would have all been machine-made. So don't run off to "Antiques Roadshow" just yet.

Karwowski said the firm was locally owned, but he isn't sure whether the Marquette Street building was a bottling plant or an administrative office. The 1939 city directory lists the company at a different location on Garfield Street.

Over the years it changed hands and, by the mid-1940s, the business no longer appeared in the directory. Karwowski said that's not surprising, considering how difficult it was for soda makers to get sugar during World War II.

If anyone has more information or a personal memory of Ideal Bottling, please let me know and I'll pass it along.

Is it true that the winner of the sausage race at Brewers games is determined by which type of sausage was sold the most that day? A friend told me this, but I always thought it was just a regular race based on who can run faster.

"The race is won by the fastest sausage and has nothing to do with sales in any way," Milwaukee Brewers vice president of communications Tyler Barnes insisted via e-mail.

I'm not sure conspiracy theorists will be dissuaded. As of late last week the hot dog, traditionally the top seller at Miller Park, had also won the most races of any sausage in 2008.

Of course, if sales were really the driving factor, I doubt bratwurst would be languishing in a distant third.

I see the 92 Muffin at O&H Danish Bakery from time to time. Why is it called that?

Eric Olesen gets that one a lot.

"We don't have a truthful answer," the O&H co-owner said.

He does remember that the danish/muffin hybrid with raisins, pecans and streusel was one of his father's favorites. But, if the secret was passed on to him, Olesen doesn't remember it.

"If you give me a good, clever reason, I'll start using it," he said.

Because Prohibition ended in 1933? Wait, that's the Rolling Rock "33" mystery. I won't go there.

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