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Hello. We are glad you are here. Sometimes the week can feel long, stressful and overwhelming. That’s why we like to take Saturday mornings as a chance to slow things down a bit and take a simpler “scroll down memory lane.” It’s a look back at events that happened on this day in history before we venture out into this day to make new ones. So, grab your favorite sippin’ drink and let’s scroll! Today is Saturday, August 13th. On

 Work is soon to begin on Sauk Prairie High School’s new agriculture education center. A groundbreaking ceremony for the Jeff Hicken Horticultural Learning Center was held yesterday.  The center replaces a 15-year old greenhouse.  Work is to start next month on the new agriculture education center which is expected to be ready next spring.

A southeastern Wisconsin cheese distributor is moving to a new headquarters.   The Emmi Roth company is moving the home office from Fitchburg to Stoughton.  The company operates cheese conversion for product that originates in Wisconsin and in Switzerland at several locations including Monroe, Platteville and Seymour.  Emmi Roth is building new headquarters as part of an expansion program.   The new offices are expected to be ready by the end of this year after a groundbreaking ceremony got work underway earlier

There are several dozen confirmed cases of the monkeypox virus in Wisconsin.  The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports that as of yesterday there are 40-confirmed cases around the state.  DHS says a person’s healthcare provider is able to help those who need to get vaccinated to find a monkeypox vaccination location and sign up.  Those without a healthcare provider can call 2-1-1 or go online at 211Wisconsin-dot-Org to get help to find a vaccination location.

Almost a year and one million dollars later, State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has fired the man he hired to investigate the 2020 general election — former State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman.  The dismissal comes three days after Vos barely survived a primary contest against a challenger Gableman had supported.  Gableman’s investigation never turned up any evidence of widespread election fraud.  The investigation cost Wisconsin taxpayers more than one-million dollars in legal expenses and salaries.  Democratic Governor Tony Evers issued a

A report from a watchdog group shows corporate donations to political campaigns in Wisconsin have soared in the last two years.  The Wisconsin Examiner reports the group — known as the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign — found corporate donors gave three times as much money to Republican Party groups in Wisconsin than they did to Democratic Party groups.  The report says Republican organizations in Wisconsin received more than 633-thousand dollars from corporations, compared with a little more than 188-thousand dollars that Democratic Party groups took in from corporations.   

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is offering free college courses to high school students in a dual-credit program with the Parkside campus.  Previously, the Parkside campus offered college course at a reduced tuition rate.  The program allows high school students to take college and high school courses for credit at their high school during the regular school day.  Since the start of the program six years ago, 14-hundred students have earned four-thousand college credits and saved more than 850-thousand dollars in future

She had to sell more than 8-thousand boxes of Girl Scout cookies, but Victoria Lenius from Madison has emerged the top seller of Girl Scout cookies in all of Wisconsin.  Lenius just graduated from high school and is headed for college with a one-thousand dollar scholarship from Badgerland Girl Scouts in her bank account.  To help anyone trying to do the math, it would take someone consuming an entire box of Girl Scout cookies each day for 21 years to almost

An angler on a fishing charter near Algoma on Lake Michigan landed what’s believed to be the biggest salmon caught in Wisconsin in nearly 30 years.  The fisherman from Minnesota was on a Kinn’s Sportfishing boat on July 31st when he caught the salmon, which weighed 40-point-4 pounds and was 44 inches long with a 28-and-a-half inch girth.  It’s considered the largest chinook caught in Wisconsin waters since another fisherman landed one that weighed almost 45 pounds in 1994.  The all-time record for Lake

The Eau Claire City-County Health Department is asking for your help to find a kitten that bit a young man on Friday, August 5th, 2022, at around 12:00 p.m. The bite happened near McDonald’s located off Fairfax Street in Altoona, WI. The kitten was described to be black with white paws. The kitten was last seen in a parking lot across from the McDonald’s near Fairfax Street. If anyone has information about this cat, they should contact the Eau Claire