Boyceville Middle/High School Honor Roll for 1st Quarter for the 2018-2019 school year. 7th Grade Cooper Anderson, Naomie Braget, Gracie Casper, Parker Coombs, Hannah Dunn, Kaci Fisher, Michaela Flug, Sydney Garbe, Connor Gilpin, Devin Halama, Hailey Hellendrung, Zachary Kersten, Joseph Kurschner, Paul Kurschner, Cora Leslie, Mackenzi Loback, Kylie Luedtke, Mariah Marvin, Alison McRoberts, Kaitlyn Mittlestadt,…
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Glenwood City High/Middle School is proud to announce the October Students of the Month. The character trait that served as the focus for the month was respect; students who hold others in esteem while showing a regard or consideration for classmates and staff alike. While GCHS/MS is filled with students who demonstrate these characteristics…
Read MoreNovember 10-16 Sadly, our Saturday music was cancelled, but the Menonite Singers on Sunday did a wonderful job, according to the residents. We also had church services on Sunday with Christ the King Church, and Catholic communion. Members of St. Croix Hospice came on Veteran’s Day and visited all our veterans as well as the…
Read MoreA number of factors affect Wisconsin’s inmate population, including the number of inmates entering the system (admissions) and leaving it (releases); sentence lengths imposed by judges; changes in criminal penalties by lawmakers; and the severity of offenses being committed that resulted in convictions. The growth of Wisconsin’s prison population has gone through four distinct phases.…
Read MoreBy LeAnn R. Ralph ELK MOUND — Your child has been begging for a smart phone for a while now. Should you give in? Chris Hahn, Elk Mound middle school principal, says “not so fast.” Hahn was one of the presenters at the Elk Mound school district’s Community Awareness night November 8. “Some of you…
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BALDWIN, WI – Selena Freimark has joined UW Cooperative Extension in St. Croix County as its new Health and Well Being educator. Freimark will work out of the Extension office in the Baldwin Agricultural Service and Education Center, and provide programming related to health promotion for families and community throughout the county. Freimark’s career has…
Read MoreMADISON, WIS. – Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jason Edge, 45, and Shelly Scott, 43, both from Kansas City, Missouri, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 48 months in prison for conspiring with each other to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity…
Read MoreMADISON — A Knapp man and two other Wisconsin residents claimed top prizes in the state Lottery from the week of November 12 to 16. Brandt Wallace of Knapp took home the biggest prize of the period, winning the top $200,000 in the, twenty dollar, Cash Reserve game. According to Wisconsin Lottery news release, Wallace…
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On Monday, November 19 Brian Zelenak became the President/CEO of St. Croix Electric Cooperative, succeeding Mark Pendergast, who is retiring after 26 years with the co-op that serves more than 11,000 member accounts in St. Croix and the edges of neighboring counties. Although he has spent the past two years as CEO/General Manager of Mille…
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RICE LAKE — A Rice Lake woman is dead after the car she was driving crossed the centerline of Highway 48 west of Rice Lake and struck an Amery School Bus. According to a news release from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department, they received a 911 call at 9:27 p.m. Tuesday, November 20th that a…
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