Ettrick
Ettrick, WI · Business
rootrivercurrent.org
Shooting Star Native Seeds’ Founders Helped Build an Industry
For more than 175 years, native plant communities across North America diminished as agriculture, cities and industry expanded. Prairie remnants survived in railroad rights-of-way, ditches and on land that wasn’t farmed, but some species became rare or even lost. In the 1980s a few visionary Minnesotans began collecting, growing...
wisfarmer.com
Demand for cottage cheese drives Westby's largest upgrade in decades
Westby Cooperative Creamery celebrated a major milestone Sept. 9 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony recognizing the completion of a $14.1 million modernization project that transforms its cottage cheese production system and positions the farmer-owned cooperative for future growth. The investment introduces state-of-the-art enclosed-vat technology to the creamery's Westby facility, replacing an...
klfdradio.com
Rochester’s 10-acre Seneca site still up for grabs
In the shadow of Rochester’s iconic Ear of Corn water tower sits a long-vacant site about the size of 10 football fields. The water tower is all that’s left of the former Seneca Foods processing and canning facility that closed up shop in 2018. Olmsted County purchased the property the following year for $5.6 million.
Fillmore County Journal
A First Class Flip in Fountain
When Nancy Kantor first spotted the Fountain property at 530 1st Street listed as a foreclosure in the Fillmore County Journal, she found that the home spoke to her. Although it was in rough shape, the location was excellent, a corner lot at the gateway to Lanesboro. Nancy loved the apple tree and the pine trees as well as the extra space in the yard.
dairystar.com
A legacy rooted in Speltz family
ALTURA, Minn. — For more than a century and a half, the Speltz family has been farming at Beaver Oak Dairy. With a dedication to agriculture being long and established in their DNA, the Speltz family was recognized as a Sesquicentennial Farm. Today, the family farm is owned and...
thedesk.net
Allen Media renews ABC affiliation agreement for seven stations
The Walt Disney Company and local television broadcaster Allen Media Group has reached a new deal that extends the carriage of ABC network programming on seven Allen Media-owned stations. The agreement covers KITV (Channel 4, ABC) in Honolulu, KEZI (Channel 9, ABC) in Eugene, KDRV (Channel 12, ABC) in Medford,...
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Upgrades come to Wisconsin’s only cottage cheese maker
WESTBY, Wis., (WLAX, WEUX) – A major dairy upgrade is coming to Wisconsin’s only cottage cheese manufacturer. Westby Cooperative Creamery is hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the installation of its new cottage cheese equipment. “We have brand new, state-of-the-art, enclosed vats. This is the first of its kind in the United States, as […]
wizmnews.com
Decisions on liquor licenses tonight at council meeting
La Crosse’s City Council could decide tonight on liquor and tobacco license renewals for three businesses. The council’s monthly meeting is this evening at 6 p.m. At the city’s Judiciary and Administration Committee meeting last week, the operators of Del’s Bar and Bennett O’Riley’s argued to keep their licenses, despite reports that both bars have repeatedly served underage customers in the past year.