By LeAnn R. Ralph BOYCEVILLE — The Boyceville Community Ambulance District Board is considering a policy pertaining to the service’s roster of Emergency Medical Technicians. Wayne Dow, director of the Boyceville ambulance service, distributed a draft of the proposed roster policy to the ambulance district board at the January 12 meeting. The policy includes a…
Read MoreGlenhaven News: January 8th – 14th Happy Birthday, Elvis! Gone, but not forgotten; music that invokes wonderful memories. This past week we started our Breakfast Trivia competition between our Glenhaven neighborhoods. This will be a month long competition and whoever wins gets the Trivia Trophy and bragging rights. Currently, the standings are “D” household has…
Read MoreTOWN OF ST. JOSEPH – A Houlton woman died from injuries sustained in a suspected alcohol-related crash early Thursday, January 13 in St. Croix County. The St. Croix County Emergency Communications Center received a call at about 12:16 a.m. on January 13, 2022, of a two-vehicle crash with injuries in the 1200 block of Highway…
Read MoreMADISON – There are some new residents on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, but they aren’t students, they’re sharks. Though it might be easy to picture a scene out of “Jaws,” these sharks have arrived to help humans, not hunt them. In fact, the sharks will be integral to research focused on therapies for diseases…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — Members of the Wisconsin National Guard will be trained as Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to take care of post-acute care patients who have been transferred to nursing homes as a way to open up hospital beds. Omicron is now the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and there has…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The Dunn County Community Resources and Tourism Committee is considering an application form that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) could use to apply for county financial support on broadband grant applications to the state. The application form is for entities asking for Dunn County support either in the form of…
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Jessica Moor was crowned the Lady-in-Waiting for Miss Rodeo Wisconsin back in August of 2021 at the Saint Croix Valley PRCA Rodeo, held annually in Glenwood City, WI. Jessica is 21, and a graduate of Baldwin-Woodville High School and completing her final semester at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. She will be graduating…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The Dunn County Planning, Resources and Development Committee has approved a variance for subdividing a property in the Town of New Haven that waives the requirement for 10,000 contiguous square feet two feet above the floodplain. Mark and Renee Bartz own 160 acres in the Town of New Haven,…
Read MoreMADISON – Acting U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea announced Tuesday, December 21, 2021 that the Western District of Wisconsin collected $6,273,129.96 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2021. Of this amount, $1,284,157.17 was collected in criminal actions and $4,988,972.79 was collected in civil actions. Fiscal Year 2021 is the 12 months from October…
Read MoreEAU CLAIRE – A name says something about a person – noble, kind, charitable or simply derived from another name. Below are the top names given to babies born at HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital in 2021. Boys: 1. Tied for #1: Levi, Owen 2. Tied for #2: Jack, Jaxon, Oliver, William 3. Tied for #3:…
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