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Hello. Welcome to your weekend. We’re glad you are here! March can be a whirly ride, both with Mother Nature (case in point, from a Winter Weather warning to 60 degrees in less than a week?!) and with the hustle of every day to-do lists, sports, family events, and beyond. Whew! That’s why we like to slow things down for a bit on Saturday mornings. It’s our “scroll down memory lane” and it’s a way to start the day low-key.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has announced the six top candidates to become the 78th Alice in Dairyland. The candidates are Allison Foster, Michelle Stangler, Mikayla Flyte, Natalie Roe, Olivia Lulich, and Sarah Hagenow. “Serving as Alice in Dairyland is the ultimate goal of this process for these young women, but the skills they will develop along the way will take them far in life no matter where they go Prior to being selected, the

A Wisconsin teenager accused of murdering his mother allegedly told police he was inspired by the Netflix documentary about the Menendez brothers.   Jim Forbes has the latest.  

When it comes to federal funding and the Dairyland there are some recent connections. First, the USDA is unfreezing its grant funding to The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association.  A spokesperson said the money will be used to reimburse dairy farmers and processors for Dairy Business Innovation Initiative improvements already made.  The grant money is worth about 29-million dollars and has impacted 420 businesses.  It has “helped to stabilize and strengthen our nation’s food supply chain and rural economies.”   Meanwhile, Federal

Hospital Sisters Health Systems is announcing investments in two Green Bay hospitals, almost a year after closing two hospitals in Western Wisconsin. The hospital says it’s using 270-million dollars to expand and remodel St. Mary’s and St. Vincent hospitals. CEO Bob Erickson says the health system is making a commitment in Green Bay, and will be there for the long haul. The HSHS closed Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s Hospitals last March, leaving 14-hundred workers without jobs. It cited operational

  On-time high school graduation rates are at a record high in Wisconsin.  New data from the Department of Public Instruction says more than 91-percent of public high school students graduated on time during the 2023-2024 school year.  Chronic absenteeism rates are down, and general attendance rates are up.

Rusk County has a new sheriff. Phil Grassman is filling the position left open after current sheriff Jeffrey Wallace retires. Grassman has been working with RCSO since 2004, and has been Chief Deputy for a decade. He’ll serve as sheriff for the rest of the current term, which ends in 2027.

Mason Crosby has announced his retirement from the Green Bay Packers and the NFL. Crosby played 16 seasons with the Packers from 2007 to 2022. In 2023 he played in three games with the New York Giants. Crosby owns the record for most points scored by a Packer with 1,918 points and most field goals with 395. The Packers and Crosby will pick a date later this year when he will sign a 1-day contract so he can officially retire

By the end of the week, you could be wishing you could lay down for a cat nap. But for this week’s Friday Feel Good, we stay wide awake to meet a family who was making a move and the family cat who decided to take the scenic route. A missing cat named Sunny-Loo showed back up after she spent three weeks stuck in a sofa.  Her family recently moved from Washington state to Colorado.  And they couldn’t find her the day

A U-W-L student accused of sexually assaulting teen girls in his dorm room is pleading not guilty. Caden Atkinson is charged with two felony counts of sexual assault of a child under the age of 16. Back in February, Atkinson signed a five-thousand-dollar bond and is not to have contact with any female under the age of 18. He will be back in court later this month.