As Madison recovers from its latest shock, the murder of University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Brittany Zimmermann, students, locals and out-of-towners were tentatively festive at this yearâ??s Mifflin Street Block Party on Saturday.
Joviality and cooperation, among drunkenness, colored the fortieth annual gathering that originally intended to protest the Vietnam War. Fewer than 10,000 attended this year’s party, according to Madison Police Department Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain — down from 2007.