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Silver and gold, red and green, yellow and chocolate? The colors of the season will include some dog hair for a special group of animals. For this week’s Friday Feel Good we head to Colorado with a plan to bring a very happy “PAW”liday to some shelter animals. The story starts with Milly and her beloved dog, Bella. When a Highlands Ranch 9-year-old’s dog passed away, she didn’t let sadness take over. Instead, she’s using her story and the holiday

Edgerton’s fire department is among the first in the state to plan for a baby box. The city announced this week that it plans to install the box, where parents can drop off newborns, no questions asked. Governor Evers signed a law last week that allows for baby boxes across the state. The box will go-in at Edgerton’s fire department because the building is manned 24/7, 365 days a year.

A Wisconsin father and daughter are getting the credit for discovering what’s thought to be a 150-year-old shipwreck in Lake Michigan. Tim Wollak and his six-year-old daughter, Henley, were out fishing near Green Bay back in August when the sonar detector picked up an unusual ping. He posted the pics to social media, where it caught the attention of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The society says it’s a wooden three-masted sailing ship and while it hasn’t been confirmed, it seems

There are charges for a Tomah man in an overdose death back in February. Prosecutors in Monroe County filed the charges this week against Nicholas Hage. Investigators say he sold meth and fentanyl to a man who overdosed earlier this year. A judge ordered Hage held on 20 thousand-dollars cash bond. He’s due back in court at the end of next month.

A jury didn’t buy a Barron County man’s insanity defense in his child pornography case. Derek Salewski pleaded guilty earlier this week to child sexual exploitation, but also claimed to be insane. The jury yesterday said Salewski did not have a mental defect when he downloaded pictures or videos showing young children being sexually assaulted. He’s looking at 40 years in prison when he’s sentenced in March.

President Biden is coming back to Wisconsin. The White House yesterday said the president will be in Milwaukee next Wednesday to talk about small businesses. It will be Biden’s second visit to Milwaukee since August, and it’s another sign of just how crucial Wisconsin is in next year’s presidential race. The latest Marquette Law School Poll gave the president a slight lead, 50-48, over Donald Trump among voters in Wisconsin.

The ACLU of Wisconsin wants answers about the requests to ban books in a half-dozen school districts across the state. The ACLU yesterday filed an open records request with schools Menomonee Falls, Howard-Suamico, Waukesha, Elmbrook, Elkhorn, and Kenosha, asking to see who wants certain books pulled off the shelves. The ACLU also wants to know how the school districts are handling the requests. Schools have been busy this year with requests from parents to pull what they call ‘objectionable’ materials

The plan from Wisconsin’s Northwoods’ congressman to protect chocolate milk in school is moving ahead on Capitol Hill. Congressman Tom Tiffany yesterday said his milk protection act was included in a House resolution this week. Tiffany’s plan would stop the Biden Administration from banning chocolate milk from the nation’s school lunch program. The USDA is considering a ban on chocolate and other flavored milks to keep kids from having too much sugar. Tiffany says banning chocolate milk would likely end

The effort to dredge Lake Altoona is showing some signs of success. Crews expect to take 60 thousand cubic-yards of sediment out of the lake during this latest dredge. That’s enough dirt and sand to fill a three-story building. That’s also twice what crews would normally take. Lake Altoona district secretary Margaret Higley says the lake has gotten deeper, and Eau Claire continues to be protected from flooding because of the dredging effort. This latest round should wrap-up in a

Democrats at the Wisconsin Capitol want the state to be more open about lockdowns and conditions in the state’s prisons. A handful of lawmakers yesterday introduced a proposal that would require more transparency about when, and how inmates are being confined to their cells. Madison State Senator Kelda Roys says the idea is to make sure Wisconsin’s prisons are treating inmates in the most humane way possible. Lockdowns have been an issue in Wisconsin prisons. Inmates in both Green Bay