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Wisconsin leaders are making investments to improve telecommunication access in the state.  Governor Evers announced one-point-seven-million dollars in grant funding yesterday.  The money will help eligible residents get discounted phone and internet service and provide telecommunications access for rural areas and individuals with disabilities.  The money for the grants is coming from the state’s Universal Service Fund.

  The Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee is getting help from the state.  Governor Tony Evers says the State Building Commission approved a two-million-dollar grant to be used toward restoring the conservatory on Layton Boulevard.  Other funding efforts are being used to help cover the roughly 130-million-dollar cost of the project.  The National Trust For Historic Preservation put the Domes on its list of most endangered historical places in 2016.  It is visited by nearly 300-thousand people each year.

A pair of Wisconsin students are heading to Washington, D.C. for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.  Kromrey Middle School’s Arnav Vempati earned a spot in the national competition after finishing second in the Badger State Spelling Bee.  He is reportedly the first student from the Middleton-Cross Plains School District to take part in the event.  Vempati will be joined by Ethan Robert, an eighth grader from New Berlin Eisenhower, who won March’s state competition.  The National Spelling Bee starts next

A Cadott woman has been sentenced after stealing from several local groups.  Nicole Ruhe was the treasurer for multiple organizations including the Boy Scouts of America Troop, the Cadott Basketball Association and the Cadott Community Association.  She admitted to taking and using money between 2021 and 2024 from two of the three organizations and not returning it.  The judge ordered Ruhe to 60 days of jail with Huber and three years of probation.  She must also pay nearly ten-thousand dollars

A lawsuit challenging the legality of ICE detainers must remain under the jurisdiction of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.  The ruling rejected an attempt by five county sheriffs to move the case to federal court.  The lawsuit contends that honoring an ICE detainer constitutes an arrest.  Wisconsin law enforcement doesn’t have the authority to make arrests based solely on ICE’s civil administrative warrants.  The ACLU previously alleged ICE sends detainers for people with no criminal records and people who have charges

Outstanding and retired educator Bryan Albrecht, a three-time alum at University of Wisconsin-Stout, crossed the commencement stage once again on May 16 – not to receive an additional diploma, but as a guest speaker to address Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University’s Class of 2026. During three commencement ceremonies, celebrating 1,067 graduates in Johnson Fieldhouse, Albrecht encouraged students to keep moving forward with courage and compassion, even when their lives’ scripts don’t go as planned. Albrecht is a recipient of a lifetime achievement award from

ABOVE PHOTO: Roder, of Elk Mound, was drawn to the program because it combines science and beauty. It might sound weird, but Miah Klawiter really likes skin. She’s not the only one. Anna Roder has a thing for skin, too, as well as literally all of their classmates in the first-ever cohort of the Aesthetician – Advanced Practice program at Chippewa Valley Technical College, set to graduate on Thursday, May 21. When that first class began two years ago, they

 In La Crosse County, an August 7th sentencing date has been set for Josie Dikeman.  Dikeman was convicted Friday in the 2023 death of her boyfriend’s six-year-old son A.J.  Jurors convicted the defendant on charges including 1st-Degree Reckless Homicide, Chronic Neglect of a Child resulting in death and Physical Abuse of a Child.

Two people were hospitalized after a Friday night head-on collision in Trempealeau County.  The accident happened shortly before 10 p.m. on State Road 121 and involved a car and a minivan.  Authorities say the car was traveling eastbound in a westbound lane when it hit the SUV.  Both drivers were injured.  The injuries suffered by the driver of the car are described as serious.

There has been no confirmation yet on the cause of a Sunday afternoon fire in Eau Claire County.  Crews were dispatched to the scene of two burning sheds in Town of Otter Creek.  No one was hurt.