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The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) will be setting over 9,000 traps for spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) in 2024. The traps will be placed in 44 counties in western and central Wisconsin. Traps began being placed in mid-May and will continue to be placed through early July. DATCP requests that property owners allow trapping staff to place traps on their land and to not disturb the traps once in place. “Traps are used to monitor spongy moth

The wheels on the bus go round and round, but now most of our buses are in the garage for the Summer as many kiddos slip into Summer vacation mode. For this week’s Friday Feel Good we look back at the last trip for one special driver.  A school bus driver in Virginia named Ulysses Whitfield is finally retiring after shuttling kids back and forth from school for 70 years.  He’s 85 and started at 15.  You have to be at least 18

On Saturday, June 15, 2024, local Mondovi families will come together to participate in the international annual Walk for Strength event to raise funds, advocate, and support research for a cure for Cerebral Creatine Deficiency Syndromes (CCDS). Crosby Williams is a 5.5 year old who was diagnosed with Creatine Transporter Deficiency in 2021. Due to his CTD diagnosis, Crosby, a sweet and happy boy, is affected by symptoms including seizures, developmental delays, speech delays, and more. Until a treatment or

Marshfield Utilities will begin painting fire hydrants along Central Avenue in Marshfield this summer to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) identification standards. The NFPA hydrant color code allows firefighters to quickly identify how many gallons per minute (GPM) will flow from a hydrant. Hydrants will be painted yellow with the cap color indicating the flow rate. Red caps indicate below 500 GPM, Orange 500 to 999 GPM, Green 1,000 – 1,499 GPM, and Blue 1,500 GPM or more. The

Add this to the list of places to go this summer. Lake Hallie’s pickleball court is set to open next month. The court will be in Gower Park. There will be 18 courts, and eventually a pavilion, indoor area, and restrooms. Lake Hallie says their court will be the largest in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. It’s tied in size with a large pickleball court in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

An Eau Claire mom is waiting to see if she will go to prison for chronic neglect of her three children. Shanta Hill pleaded no contest yesterday to the chronic neglect of her kids, ages six, five, and four-years-old. Investigators say the case is one of the worst cases of neglect they’ve ever seen. Hill is due back in court in two weeks.

Lake Hallie may hire a village administrator. Currently Lake Hallie has a  clerk/treasurer, but Village Board President Gary Spilde says that job will be open by the end of the year and they may change things. Spilde says moving to a village administrator would allow one person to oversee the day-to-day operations in Lake Hallie, as opposed to having to bring-in other people. Spilde says no one has made any final decisions.

Republican lawmakers at the Wisconsin Capitol are talking about more oversight for the state’s prisons. State Senator Howard Marklein, who sits on the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee, yesterday said he wants to see more leadership and more accountability from the Department of Corrections, and Governor Tony Evers. Wisconsin’s DOC secretary stepped-down in March, just a few months ahead of the arrest of nine people at the prison in Waupun, including the former warden. Marklein said lawmakers are considering legislation that

The student hunter safety program in Mosinee Schools is under review after a teacher brought a non-functioning rifle to school earlier this year. The teacher is still working in the district, and was allowed to bring what essentially was a prop-gun to school in January. But someone who worked at the school, who didn’t know the rifle was non-functioning, alerted school leaders, and the school then warned parents that someone brought a gun to school. Now, the district says it’s

It looks like the plan to recall Wisconsin’s assembly speaker has fallen short, again. The group Wisconsinites for Liberty Fund yesterday said the Racine Recall effort includes thousands of signatures from people who do not live in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ district. The recall signatures also show that hundreds of people signed several times, and hundreds of other signatures were collected after the state’s deadline. There are also claims that most of the signature collectors are from out of state,