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Spooner Health hosts career exploration program for middle school students
SPOONER — This spring, Spooner Health invited Spooner Middle School students from the Out of School Time Club to experience a “behind-the-scenes” look at health care careers. Nine students from the after-school program joined their teacher over a period of nine weeks to learn about the incredible variety of healthcare career opportunities. Each week, the students rotated through different departments of the hospital. Department visits included Rehabilitation Services, Inpatient, Pharmacy, Business Office, Plant Operations, Surgery, Emergency, Imaging, Quality, Infection Prevention and Laboratory. ...
Register for the Northwest Wisconsin Lakes Conference
This year’s Northwest Wisconsin Lakes Conference will be held on June 21 from 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. at Spooner High School. Highlights include some new and upcoming topics such as the latest on wakeboat impacts, fisheries and habitat trends, as well as communication strategies, stream monitoring and stewardship success stories, and many other relevant topics. Tom Fitz, professor of geoscience at Northland College, will lay the groundwork in his...
Baseball: Cumberland defeats St. Croix Falls, Mondovi to punch ticket to state tournament
With a pair of wins in Tuesday's Division 3 sectional, the Cumberland baseball team has qualified for the state tournament. At Islander Park in Cumberland, the Beavers took down Heart O' North foe St. Croix Falls 3-2 in a sectional semifinal on Tuesday morning before running away from Mondovi by a 9-1 score in the sectional final that afternoon. Cumberland (22-8) will be making its sixth state tournament appearance, with...
Barron's Shipley, Cumberland's Otto each win state track and field titles
LA CROSSE — Andie Otto reached the podium twice, including winning Cumberland’s first individual state championship, while Grant Shipley repeating as a champion for Barron were among other highlights for Barron County athletes at the state track and field meet in La Crosse. Cumberland had never had an individual state champion until Otto made a late pass on Saturday to earn the title for the Division 3 girls 300-meter hurdles on Saturday. The senior had been fourth in the preliminaries on Friday and took off...
CITY OF SHAFER SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 2024 -5-2
SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 2024 -5-2 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 9, PART 1, SECTIONS 901.04 AND 901.11 AND PART 2 SECTIONS 902.06 AND 902.07 OF THE SHAFER CITY CODE REGULATING RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT, SALES, SERVICE AND REPAIR AND SHIPPING CONTAINERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on May 21, 2024 Ordinance No. 2024-5-2...
High water closes St. Croix River boat launches; no-wake rule enforced
HUDSON, Wis. (FOX 9) - After a wet, rainy month of May, several boat launches along the St. Croix River closed this weekend because of high water levels. "With the water being high like this, there’s not much boats," See Lei Vang said. "Usually it’s really packed." "The...
New hires at Shell Lake School
SHELL LAKE — New employees in the Shell Lake School District were hired by the School Board at their meeting Monday, May 20. The board hired Kyle Johnson as elementary school principal; Emilie Springsteen as high school English teacher; Rachel Schenkenberg as head high school volleyball coach; Lane Deyo as head wrestling coach; Steve Naglosky as assistant wrestling coach; and transferred Allison Mazurka from kindergarten to second grade. In other...
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