JACKSON - Jackson police were called to a home on Green Valley last Friday afternoon where an elderly woman reported strange noises coming from the furnace. An officer traced the noise to a bag of old smoke alarms in a cabinet near the furnace; the batteries had grown old and the smoke alarms were beeping.

- A 20-year-old West Bend man was arrested for shoplifting a Wii videogame controller from ShopKo, 1719 S. Main St. Police say the incident happened Wednesday at 4:40 p.m. While exiting the parking lot with the stolen goods the man tossed the items out his car window. Police managed to retrieve the goods and caught up with the man at the McDonald’s up the street. A search of his vehicle turned up drug paraphernalia and some narcotics for which he did not have a prescription. Police subsequently placed Josh Dobberphul in jail for possession of a prescription medication and drug paraphernalia. He was also cited for shoplifting.

WEST BEND - Administrators at the Ozaukee/Washington Land Trust are considering installing surveillance cameras in light of its building, 200 Wisconsin St., being tagged a couple weeks ago.

“We’ve been talking about it but we haven’t made any definitive decisions,” said OWLT executive director Shawn Graff.

The OWLT makes its home in the old train depot on the Eisenbahn State Trail.

Graff said a number of factors makes it prudent to go ahead with the cameras including the sculptures on the north end of the building, the adjacent parking lot and the addition of the Museum of Wisconsin Art.

Graff has not talked with the MWA’s Tom Lidke yet but said he’d like to work as a team so they aren’t duplicating efforts.

“This is going to take time; one of our committees will have to be consulted and it’ll have to fall within our budget,” he said.