Dellona neighbors face-off over fence, town board steps in
By Anna Krejci, Dells Events
Whether a fence between two Dellona residents’ properties is smack on the edge of their properties is the question that has to be answered before the Dellona Town Board can take further action to settle a dispute about the fence.
Dellona resident Melanie Stenson, who lives on Stevens Court, approached the Dellona Town Board at a meeting in January and alleged a fence her neighbor, Larry Smith, erected was put up without an agreement between the two and without notification of the town as required by Chapter 90 of the Wisconsin State Statutes.
Stenson charged her neighbor’s fence was illegal and she asked the town board in January to make her neighbor remove it.
Since then the board discovered that Smith’s fence could be legal if it sits on his side of the property line. Stenson maintains the new fence is actually on her side of the property line. Stenson said in January she already has a fence erected on her property that should be sufficient.
Dellona Town Board Supervisor Aaron Kirby, who has been appointed a fence viewer with Supervisor Bob Giebel, said he had visited the properties Saturday.
“Again, it’s pretty tough to determine the fence line,” he said.
Kirby said he will be working with Stenson to find a survey of her property that will show where the property line is.
“So she’s going to find the survey, and we’ll go from there. Once the snow gets done, we’ll be able to better figure out where everything lies. So right now she’s happy with what’s going on so far,” he said.
The dispute between Stenson and Smith is playing out with several lawsuits pending in the background. Stenson told her side of the story to the board in January.
She said Smith was upset because her young children played in his field and damaged part of his crop. She said Smith is suing her in two lawsuits in Sauk County Circuit Court for a total of $10,000 for crop damage and for the costs he incurred while putting up the fence that she says is illegal.
Kirby also said the situation is more complicated because Stenson’s dog was recently shot. Now there is a question as to whether the incident is related to her dispute over the fence.
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Gentle readers,
If you can make sense of this, please fill me in.
Dellona, by the way, is the Township that begins at the end of the Scharbach property line. We live in the Town of Delton, but we have a friend who used to be on the Dllona Town Board. I'm sure he is glad to be done with that.
Remember, "town" up here is a municipality within a county. All areas in the state that have not been incorporated as cities or villages are parts of towns. Towns provide a limited number of services to their residents. The U.S. Census considers
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