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In June 2021, Prevea Health, in partnership with HSHS Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s hospitals, began providing mobile mammography services to residents in rural western Wisconsin communities. Since then, 190 patients have used mobile mammography services, and of those patients:  23 patients required additional imaging for suspected breast cancer1 patient was diagnosed with breast cancer25 patients received a mammogram for the first time15 patients had not had a mammogram in more than 5 years “These numbers indicate the importance of

Tommy Thompson, president of the University of Wisconsin System, is scheduled to help UW-Stout students celebrate reaching a 70% COVID-19 vaccination rate when he visits campus on Monday, Oct. 11. UW-Stout announced recently that it had reached the vaccination goal set by the UW System as part of its 70 for 70 campaign. Along with Chancellor Katherine Frank, Thompson will hand out ice cream to students from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the amphitheater of the Memorial Student Center. The amphitheater is part of

A non-profit that helps the families of fallen service members and first responders has paid off the mortgage of a local Air Guard pilot who crashed on a training mission. Tunnels to Towers paid the rest of what was owed on Major Durwood Jones’ home. He died when his F-16 went down last December in the UP. He left behind a wife and two young sons.

UW-Madison is getting three-quarters of a million-dollars to study how to fight misinformation on Facebook and Twitter. The university’s school of journalism announced the grant yesterday. Professor Mike Wagner is going to study the best way to promote fact checkers and fight misinformation. Though no one is saying just what misinformation they are looking to fight. The plan is to buy ads on both platforms and see which is the best way to counter the information they don’t like.

It was a violent Thursday night in Milwaukee. Police say nine people were wounded in two separate shootings. The first happened about 8:30 last night near 37th and Meinecke. Five people were wounded. The second shooting happened about an hour later near 8th and Cherry. Four people were wounded in that shooting. Police are not saying anything about suspects or a motive in either of the cases.

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman late last night canceled his interviews with the mayors of Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha. Gableman also scaled-back his subpoena requests. The mayors of the so-called Wisconsin Five complained that Gableman’s subpoena was too broad and could not be met within two weeks. Gableman is asking for fewer documents, but the focus of his investigation has not changed.

Wisconsin Republicans want to make it easier for people to buy a house. A number of Republican lawmakers yesterday introduced a plan to roll back some red tape and use tax incentives to build more homes in the state. State Rep. Jim Steineke said the lack of affordable housing is not only driving prices up, but it’s stopping young workers and young families from setting down roots in Wisconsin. The Republicans say the state’s housing shortage is a statewide issue, not just

The refugees who settle in Wisconsin will get a lot of federal money to help them get on their feet. The New Beginnings for Refugees group in Wausau held a public meeting last night to get more information to the community about the 75 Afghans who are set to move to town over the next year, The group’s Gwendolyn Paul says there will be a lot of federal money directed toward Wausau to help the refugees start a new life, though no

A custom boat maker is coming to southern Wisconsin. Governor Evers yesterday said Grand Craft Boats is relocating from Holland, Michigan and will open-up shop in Genoa City. Genoa City is a small community on the Illinois border in both Kenosha and Walworth counties. The state is offering 125-thousand-dollars in tax credits to get Grand Craft to move to the state and create 20 new jobs within three years.

It’s a vaccination milestone in Chippewa County. Public health managers yesterday said 50-percent of people in the county are now fully vaccinated. County public health director Angela Wiedeman says it’s great to hit the mark, but she says more people need to get their shots. Wiedeman says people continue to test positive for the virus. In other vaccination arenas, nearly 85-percent of the people who work at Gunderson Health System in La Crosse are vaccinated against the coronavirus. But it’s