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About 40 people in Whitehall are out of a job as another western Wisconsin frac sand mine is closing its doors.  Hi-Crush told the state of Wisconsin recently that it is closing the mine in Whitehall.  Between 35 and 40 people will lose their jobs.  Hi-Crush says the ‘decreased profitability in shipping sand’ is to blame for the mine’s closing. 

Wisconsin’s governor says farmers in the state are already dealing with low prices and bad weather.  They don’t need a trade war to make things worse.  Governor Tony Evers yesterday wrote a letter to President Trump asking him to end the trade uncertainty that is hurting farmers in the state.  The governor says farmers in Wisconsin want trade not aid, and need healthy trade agreements to make that happen.  On that note, cheesemakers in Wisconsin don’t expect things to get better anytime soon.  The

A Wausau woman is pleading not guilty to embezzling money from her job.  Kristin Lapree is accused of stealing nearly half-a-million-dollars from Rettler Corporation.  She was the business manager at Rettler for more than six years.  She is accused of impersonating the company’s owner and forging checks. 

The new Miss Black USA hails from Madison.  Former Miss Black Wisconsin Tekema Balentine took the title home from the competition in Washington, DC this weekend.  In addition to the crown, Balentine won scholarship money.   She is currently pursuing a nursing degree at Madison College and is a coach for Madison East track and field.  

The City of Eau Claire is another step closer to redeveloping Boyd Park.  The Boyd Park Plus project announced yesterday it’s surpassed its ten-thousand dollar fundraising goal for the first phase of the project.  The plan is to use that money to hire a firm to design a plan for the park.  The project committee will hold a public input session this Sunday ON TO THE NEXT STEP! CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT!

It was another winning weekend in Wisconsin with a $1,000,000 Powerball winner. It was the Kwik Trip (3130 State Road) in La Crosse sold the $1 Million winning ticket which matched 5 out of 5 numbers but not the Powerball.

With less than a month to go before fall semester classes, renovations are close to wrapping up at two University of Wisconsin-Stout buildings. North Hall and Merle M. Price Commons, adjacent buildings whose east sides open to the campus mall and west sides face Broadway Street, will reopen around the end of August. Students are scheduled to move into residence halls, including North, on Sunday, Sept. 1. Classes begin Wednesday, Sept. 4. North Hall has undergone a complete renovation, along

A heads up if you are near our aiport tomorrow, it might look like there is an emergency. On Tuesday, August 13 emergency service and disaster response personnel will take part in training and a mock airport disaster drill. Thetraining will start around 2:00 PM on Tuesday and continue throughout the afternoon, with the mock disaster drill wrapping up around 7:30 PM Tuesday evening. During this event, you may notice increased emergency activity in the area including: response personnel, emergency

Specialty Cheese Company Inc., one of the nation’s top manufacturers of ethnic cheeses and baked cheese snacks, is expanding its facility operations in Reeseville—a $1.65 million project expected to create 36 jobs over the next two years. Specialty Cheese Company Inc. was founded in Reeseville in 1991, when the Scharfman family purchased five old cheese factories dating back to the 1860s. Since then, the company has continued to expand and modernize, purchasing a local high school and converting it into

A motorcycle crash with a deer leaves one man dead. Price County Sheriff Brian Schmidt reports on Sunday his Department received a call from Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office at 11:25 p.m. reporting a motorcycle versus deer crash with one person injured on State Highway 86 near State Highway 102 in the Township of Spirit.  Preliminary investigation revealed the motorcycle with one rider was traveling eastbound on State Highway 86 approaching West Road when the motorcycle struck a deer. The driver