By LeAnn R. Ralph MENOMONIE — The annual meeting for the Tainter Lake Rehabilitation District will be held at Menomonie High School August 5. The cost of the Great Hall at UW-Stout to accommodate 500 people is $565, said Al Brown, chair of the initial Board of Commissioners for the lake district, at the May…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R.Ralph COLFAX — Members of the Wisconsin Northwoods Quilts of Valor have presented four more quilts to area veterans. Quilts were presented to Jon Suckow, Roger Hainstock, Alan Johnson and Rodney Johnson during an American Legion Russell-Toycen Post 131 meeting at the Grapevine Senior Center in Colfax May 16. Rodney Johnson was not…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph RAMSEY COUNTY — The 39-year-old man who murdered four people and left their bodies in an SUV in a Town of Sheridan corn field in September of 2021 has been sentenced to more than 100 years in prison. Antoine D. Suggs was convicted by a Ramsey County, Minnesota, jury on four…
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GLENWOOD CITY — Longtime Glenwood City school district superintendent Tim Johnson has submitted his resignation to the Board of Education according to the agenda that district posted to its website Friday afternoon, May 19. Johnson’s communication to the board reads as follows: “Dear School Board Members, I am writing to provide notice of my intent…
Read MoreTo invest in Wisconsin’s transportation system, Gov. Tony Evers has signed a $4.49 million contract with prime contractor Monarch Paving Co. of Amery for a pavement improvement project on WIS 128 from WIS 29 northeast of Spring Valley to US 12 west of Wilson in St. Croix County. Construction is scheduled to start Monday, May…
Read MoreThe regular monthly meeting of the Glenwood City Common Council was lead by grade school students who are members of the student council at the Glenwood City schools. The students are from the second, third and fifth grades. This is the third month in which Mayor Rob Unruh has invited student council members to open…
Read MoreFour city residents sent letters to the city council expressing their interest in serving on the City Council. The six-person city council has one open seat and they placed an advertisement in the Tribune Press Reporter for the past three weeks asking any city resident that were interested in serving to submit a letter to…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph GLENWOOD CITY — When Kent Kletcher decided to donate the proceeds from the Wood City Open golf tournament to Deputy Leising’s family, he was only looking for t-shirts and hats. The next thing you know, people were donating $500 crossbows and flat screen televisions. “I decided Monday or Tuesday of last…
Read MoreWASHINGTON, D.C. – On May 11, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jim Risch (R-ID) led a bipartisan group of colleagues calling out the Biden Administration’s misguided draft guidance that allows non-dairy product imitators to use dairy names, like milk, when labeling their products. In February, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contradicted their own…
Read MoreWASHINGTON, D.C. – As the nation celebrates National Nurses Week, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Steve Daines (R-MT) introduced the WWII Nurses Congressional Gold Medal Act to award a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the brave women who were World War II Army and Navy nurses. By the time World War II ended, more…
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