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The sound of polka music was filling the streets of New Glarus this weekend. The two-day Polkafest celebrating the Swiss heritage of the village south of Madison wrapped up Saturday with a variety of polka bands, local beers, and its popular Beer, Bacon & Cheese event. The Polkafest was made possible by sponsors like the Bank of New Glarus and the New Glarus Brewing Company.

The theater at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin has reopened. The Hillside Theater at the architect’s home in Spring Green had been undergoing restoration and was reopened Saturday in honor of Wright’s birthday. A quartet from Chicago performed a sold-out show at the theater to celebrate the reopening. Taliesin was named a World Heritage Site in 2019. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

Hello. We’re glad you are here. We are tipping into June and you might be feeling the days heat up not just on the thermometer, but on your social calendar as well. Work, Summer schedules, camping trips, family vacations, the every day errands. Whew. It can be a lot to juggle…even when we love our lives! That’s why we like to take a different approach on Saturday mornings with a simpler “scroll down memory lane.” It’s just an easy way

A man is dead after an altercation outside a Madison bar.  The Madison Police Department says multiple people called 911 after hearing gunshots on the 1300 block of Williamson Street early Friday morning.  Officers responded and found a 27-year-old man dead at the scene and dozens of shell casings in  the street.  Police believe the fight started inside the bar and spilled out into the street, and that the victim was targeted.  No arrests have been made and the suspect

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says a second attempt to recall him has failed.  WISC says Vos released a statement Friday claiming the recall organizers collected fraudulent signatures and allowed some people to sign multiple times.  Vos claims that thousands of signatures were collected from outside the 63rd Assembly District and that hundreds were collected outside of the 60-day deadline.

It’s the fourth highest spring turkey hunting season on record in Wisconsin. The state Department of Natural Resources says hunters registered more than 50-thousand turkeys this year. That’s more than 20-percent more than the average season. The turkey season started in mid-April and ended at the end of May. The deadline to register for a license for next year’s season is in December.    

The parent accused of rushing on stage at graduation and stopping the school superintendent from shaking his daughter’s hand is formally charged with disorderly conduct. Matthew Eddy, who is White, is accused of jumping on stage at the Baraboo High School graduation ceremony and moving the administrator, who is Black, out of his daughter’s path. Off-duty police intervened, and Eddy was taken out of the gym. He faces a thousand dollars in fines and 90 days in prison if convicted.  

Wisconsin’s attorney general attended training about the state’s address confidentiality program in Appleton. The Safe at Home program gives Wisconsin residents who are facing abuse, stalking, or trafficking threats to keep their address private. Anyone enrolled in the program sends and receives mail at an assigned address different from their own, and gets their mail forwarded to them, free of charge. There are more than a thousand households in Wisconsin using the program, and more than two thousand participants.

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