Madison Craft Beer Week is under way.

The 10-day countywide festival promotes Dane County's craft beer culture and beer appreciation.

Craft beer lovers can take part in beer dinners, beer walks and even brewery parties.

Staff at the Great Dane in downtown Madison spoke with WISC-TV about the festival.

"We get people coming in from out of town saying, 'You know, we heard this place is really great. Madison's having Craft Beer Week and we really just want to check it out.' So we get to enlighten a lot of outsiders about the coolness of Madison's beer scene," said Reese Railling, a manager at the Great Dane.

Craft Beer Week runs through May 13.

For more information on Craft Beer Week events, go to: http://www.madbeerweek.com/event-guide2

The letter below to parents after a bomb threat was called in at the Verona Area High School.

4/26/2012

Dear Verona Area High School Parents,

Thursday evening, a staff member reported to high school administration that a bomb threat was written in pencil on a bathroom stall.   As a precaution, a search of the common areas in the main building and K-Wing was made by the UW Madison Canine Bomb team followed by a thorough room-by-room and exterior search conducted by school administration, Dane County Sherriff's and Verona Police Department. The building was secured for the evening and patrolled continuously throughout the night.  

We will hold school as scheduled on Friday, April 27th, but will take the following additional precautions:

The families of two children playing at the Glacier Edge Elementary School playground called police after the children said they were being watched and followed by a man driving a white minivan this weekend.

The children told police that the van was parked in the far southwest corner of the Gray's Tied House parking lot. The children said they thought they were being watched so they walked to one of their homes.

The children said they cut through the Once Upon a Time's property and didn't see the man after that.

The man was described as a clean-shaven white man, driving what was described as a newer white minivan.

Police said they were not able to locate the driver or the minivan. Officers also checked security tape video from Gray's Tied House, but the van was parked out of range of the surveillance cameras, police said.

Anyone with information about the identity of the driver is asked to call the Verona Police Department at 608-845-7623.