ODDLY ENOugh

ODDLY ENOugh

In dairy-obsessed Wisconsin, plan just too ‘gouda’ to fail

MADISON, Wis.

The plan was too “gouda” to fail.

The Wisconsin Legislature agreed May 2 to make cheese the official dairy product of the dairy-obsessed state, which produces more 3 billion pounds of cheese per year. That’s more than any other U.S. state.

The state’s official animal is the badger, also the mascot of the University of Wisconsin.

But its official domestic animal is the dairy cow, and milk is the official state beverage.

The idea to give cheese its rightly place in state designations came from a fourth-grade class in Mineral Point, a city in southwest Wisconsin that’s home to one of the state’s nearly 150 cheese plants.

Rare example of early canal boat in NY lake

SYRACUSE, N.Y.

Three scuba divers say they’ve discovered a rare example of an early Erie Canal boat on the bottom of an upstate New York lake.

The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports Timothy Caza, Timothy Downing and Christopher Martin, all of Oswego County, found the shipwreck in Oneida Lake in 2011.

Ben Ford, a maritime archaeologist at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the divers excavated and recorded the shipwreck in 2013 and 2014.

The divers say the 62-foot-long wooden vessel was determined to be a Durham boat, which were designed to carry heavy cargo on canals and rivers in the 19th century.

Caza says no archaeological examples of Durham boats had been identified prior to the Oneida Lake discovery.

What are the odds? 2 caught trying to steal statistics exam

LEXINGTON, Ky.

Call it a statistical error: Police say two University of Kentucky students crawled through an air duct to steal a statistics exam from their professor’s office but were caught because he was working late.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports university police cited Henry Lynch II and Troy Kiphuth, both 21, for third-degree burglary and referred the case to Fayette County Circuit Court.

Police said Lynch also confessed to stealing an exam from the office earlier in the semester.

Associated Press