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The compost site located at 501 South Hume Avenue, Marshfield, will be closed for approximately two days, Thursday, June 8 through Friday, June 9, to allow for the construction of an additional road inside the site to allow better access for patrons to dump compost material at the site. The site will be open this weekend (June 10-11), but may close on Monday, June 12, if the project needs to be finished. The site is typically open 24 hours a

Pablo Center at the Confluence works to empower artists and connect audiences through the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival to be presented throughout the summer of 2023. As an integral part of this inaugural season, Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival is proud to introduce the playwright winners for Improbable Fiction: A New Works Series. Playwrights from across the region and country were invited to submit one-act plays in one of three categories: “Young Voices” (for writers ages 16-24), “Diverse Perspectives (for writers who identify

ABOVE PHOTO: Mark Klapatch-Mathias, coordinator of the UWRF Sustainability Office, shows a toy to student Amber Rappl as they sort items donated as part of the Don’t Throw It, Donate It! project. Julian Emerson/UWRF photo. “There are lots of treasures in here…” An annual waste reduction effort at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls is getting items that would be otherwise destined for a landfill to people who need them. Volunteers working with the Don’t Throw It, Donate It! program collected

The violent start to Milwaukee’s summer is not slowing down. Police in Milwaukee say there were five shootings yesterday, including a school bus that was hit, and a shooting that killed a 21-year-old man. The two kids on the school bus were not hurt, but all of the other shootings did leave someone dead or injured. Milwaukee Police say the violence continued overnight with two shootings early this morning.

The sheriff in Dunn County says a home invasion yesterday was random, but violent. Deputies were called to a home in the township of Dunn about 3:30 yesterday morning. The people who live there say a woman forced her way into the house, and when the homeowners stopped her, she allegedly hit them with what the sheriff’s office is calling a blunt object. Everyone is okay, and the woman was arrested. The sheriff’s office is not naming the woman. CLICK

The last of the two young women in the Slender Man case wants to be released from the mental hospital. Morgan Geyser was in court in Waukesha County on Monday.  Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in the mental hospital after being convicted for the 2014 stabbing attack that nearly killed one of her friends.  She was just 12-years-old at the time.  The other young woman in the case, Anissa Weier, was released back in 2021.  A judge turned down

The state of Wisconsin is struggling to hire people, and having an even harder time keeping the people they have.  A new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum highlights heavy turnover and a number of empty jobs inside state government.  The report says 16 percent of non-UW state employees left their jobs last fiscal year.  Veterans Affairs, Corrections, and the state’s Department of Health Services saw the most people leave.  Some of the turnover is because of retirements, and some is likely because of

Second, third, and weekend shift workers at the Ariens plant in Brillion are losing their jobs. The company announced a wave of layoffs yesterday. Ariens says it is ‘rebalancing’ its workforce. There is no exact number of just how many people are losing their jobs, but workers say it will be hundreds of people. Ariens is encouraging some of the laid-off workers to apply for open first shift jobs. Their last day will be tomorrow.

Folks in Chippewa Falls are going to have to wait a bit longer to take a dip. Managers at the Bernard Willi Pool say a pipe burst, and that means the pool won’t open on Friday. Parks boss John Jimenez says they hope to be able to open-up next week, though he’s not sure about when. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Wisconsin’s attorney general, and the man who ran against him last fall both say lawmakers need to spend more money on the state’s crime lab. A-G Josh Kaul, along with Fond du Lac County D.A. and former Republican A-G candidate Eric Toney, told reporters yesterday that the crime lab needs more people to keep up with a flood of new cases. Kaul says his two million-dollar Crime Fighting Budget is a ‘critical investment’ in public safety in the state.  Wisconsin’s