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It’s almost time to iron the Lederhosen and prepare your palette for beer and sauerkraut! Welcome to OKTOBERFEST CHIPPEWA FALLS September 15 & 16 at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. Here’s a bit of background: Oktoberfest Chippewa Falls is celebrating its 20th annual German heritage event during this two-day festival. There are food vendors, games, beer, competitions, and a ton of family fun. This is truly an awesome experience for the family to eat great food, enjoy live music, and

A mostly dry week across Wisconsin is causing an expansion of drought conditions. This week’s U.S. Drought Monitor map shows more extreme drought in Southwest and South-Central Wisconsin. Areas of severe drought are also expanding into more of the middle of the state. This week’s map continues to show parts of Douglas in Bayfield counties–along the Lake Superior shore–with exceptional drought. Three percent of the state is drought-free–mostly in pockets in Eastern and Western Wisconsin.

The First Lady is visiting Madison today. Jill Biden will meet with Wisconsin U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin for an event, talking about improving access to cancer screenings. She’ll also speak at an educator appreciation event with the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers before a political fundraiser this evening.

A package of bills unveiled by State Republican lawmakers would create new childcare slots by changing rules to the minimum number of workers allowed per kid. It would also let 16-year-olds by assistant child care teachers. The lawmakers say it would increase access to child care and lower its cost. Governor Tony Evers says the bills would reduce the quality of child care.

City Council Members and City staff joined developers and community members for a ribbon cutting on Monday, August 28, 2023, to open The Eddy, a 46-unit apartment building at 1700 Oxford Avenue thatwill serve households who earn less than the median household income in the County. Four current projects are bringing 542 new units onto the market. Of these units, 173 (or almost a third) are affordable to renters earning 80 percent or less of the County Median Income (CMI).

On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, at 6:00 p.m., the Marshfield Common Council will receive public input in the Council Chambers at City Hall on a proposal to ban the practice of declawing cats within the city of Marshfield.This will occur at the beginning of that evening’s regular Council meeting, and those wishing to comment will have up to 5 minutes to share their views on this subject. Mayor Lois Te Strake will have a sign-up sheet for citizens interested in

Eight Wisconsin Red Cross volunteers are headed south. The Red Cross yesterday said the crew is going to Florida to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia. The storm made landfall yesterday. The Red Cross says two of the Wisconsin volunteers are from north-central Wisconsin, one is from northeast Wisconsin and the others are from the southern part of the state.

The chancellor at UW-La Crosse is stepping down.  Chancellor Joe Gow yesterday said he is leaving the job at the end of this school year.  Gow isn’t leaving UW-La Crosse, he will remain on as a professor in the communications department.  Gow is the longest-serving chancellor in the UW System, and is the second longest-serving chancellor in UW-La Crosse history.  The school will start looking for a new chancellor in a few months.

If you think your life is a dumpster fire sometimes, this was the literal version of that. The State Patrol says a truck that was carrying garbage caught on fire on the northbound off-ramp at Highway 151 yesterday afternoon. Crews dumped the garbage on the road as they tried to put-out the flames. No one was hurt, but it took some time to clean-up the garbage and get everything back to normal.

Appleton Police say they’ve found a missing three-year-old girl, but there are questions to answer about her disappearance. Police yesterday said they worked with police officers in Michigan to find three-year-old Charley Peeples. She went missing Tuesday while out for a ride with her grandmother. No one is saying where the little girl was, or who she was with. Appleton Police say their investigation remains ongoing.