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The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office is still in need of assistance locating John R. Shest. Shest walked away from the Phoenix House located in the village of Gilman yesterday February 24,2019 at approximately 1:36 p.m. He was last seen at 2:00 p.m. leaving the Corner Store in the village of Gilman after purchasing alcohol. Shest was wearing blue jeans and blue hoodie , he left the Corner Store on foot in an unknown direction. Anybody with information is asked to

Just Local Food announces that as of February 18, Scott Zellmer is the new General Manager of Just Local Food Coop located at 1117 South Farwell Street.  “The Board is extremely pleased to find such a qualified person,” said Rachel Hart-Brinson, President of the Just Local Food Board of Directors. GM Background Scott Zellmer brings over 20 years of retail food experience to Just Local Food. He previously served as buyer and GM for The Coffee Grounds and Hahn’s Market,

Governor Tony Evers wants to stop expansion in private voucher and charter schools.  Aides tell the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the governor wants to freeze the number of students who may enroll in private voucher schools and suspend new, independent charter schools until 2023.  Evers is the former state superintendent of schools who has argued the state could not properly fund its public schools while also expanding taxpayer-funded private voucher and charter school options. 

Taxpayers could be on the hook for millions of dollars more than first expected to replace the maximum-security prison in Green Bay.  The Press-Gazette says today a draft report from two consulting firms estimate the replacement cost for the prison to be between 450-and-500 million dollars.  There are numerous issues with the current facility including 100-year-old infrastructure that can’t handle the eleven-hundred inmates, which is hundreds more than it was built to house.  

There will be increased safety at Camp Randall Stadium this season.  State officials say stairway hand railings in certain sections of the stadium will be installed prior to the 2019 football season.  The university hasn’t commented on the plan. 

Familiar faces from our television screens now help you realize your vision for a “Happily Ever After…” as former television news anchors at WEAU 13 and local marketing agency owners Chris Herzog and Sarah Stokes are proud to announce they’re expanding once again and will now assist friends, neighbors, and business associates with the biggest purchase of their lives: commercial real estate. STOKES|HERZOG Realty is now open for “This has been a dream of mine for several years. We are

One person is dead and multiple people are injured after a pileup on Interstate-41 near Neenah, south of Appleton.  Police say anywhere from 20 to 40 cars were involved in the crash during whiteout conditions over the weekend.  About 20 people were taken to the hospital.  Most of them are considered to be in goof to fair condition. 

A Nelson man accused of attacking someone with a knife plans to enter a plea next month on an attempted first-degree homicide charge.  A criminal complaint says police received a report 37-year-old Kenneth Teel stabbed and injured a 65-year-old man last September during an altercation at the victim’s house.  Police say Teel told them the victim would have bled out if they wouldn’t have gotten there when they did.  Teel waved his preliminary hearing last week.  He’s facing up to

A former Chippewa County employee will not get an appeals hearing after getting fired after running for office against his boss.  If you were paging through The Leader-Telegram while sipping your coffee, then you likely saw reports Nate Liedl ran against Karen Hepfler for clerk of court last year and lost.  Two months later Liedl was fired from Hepfler’s office and he says it was only because he ran against her in the election.  Liedl then filed to have a

Milwaukee is in the hunt for the 2020 Democratic National Convention.  Just like Miami and Houston.  Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez told Fox News Sunday that all three cities have a chance to host the convention.  Milwaukee has been rumored to be the favorite, partially because of the weather and partially because Wisconsin is considered a key state to winning the White House in 2020.  Perez says he hopes to pick a winning city in the next few weeks.