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Northwest Wisconsin Highway Construction Update - Nov. 13, 2026

NORTHWEST WISCONSIN -- This week’s updates from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) on road construction projects for Barron, Burnett, Polk, Rusk, Sawyer, and Washburn counties. Barron County. Highway: County D. Location: Lake Chetek Bridge in Chetek. Schedule: Aug. 3 through late November. Cost: $2.39 million. Description of work:...

Barron County, WI · 23h
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We Are Cedar Rapids

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This Adults-Only Holiday Wine Train Might Be Wisconsin’s Coziest Winter Adventure

If you’re looking for something different (and a little magical) to do this holiday season, check this out.

Trego, WI · 3d

Price County Review

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Price County Land Transfers for Nov. 6, 2026

PHILLIPS — The Price County Register of Deeds office released its real property sales reports for the week of Nov. 6, 2026. CITY OF PARK FALLS • Jeremy William and Kaye Smart to Myers Construction Inc. • Daniel, Donald, David, and Delmar Palacheck and Christine Rand to Joseph Palacheck. • Daryl Damask to Benito Colon Jr. and Antonette Matis. VILLAGE OF CATAWBA • Richard, Mary Louise, Loretta andEugene Manula and Tammy Neils to Nicole Birdeau-Rabalais. TOWN OF ELK • Donald L. Smith Estate to Dean and Cheryl Hartwig. • Robert Pike and Tracy Bronson to Wayne and Holly Gardner. TOWN OF FIFIELD • Michael and Dena McGriff to James J. & Jami S. Erdmann Revocable Trust. • Guy Schroeder to Ryan Nelson. TOWN OF FLAMBEAU • Barbara Peirick to Alexis Conniff and Eric Kottke. TOWN OF KENNAN • Tammy Russell to Francis Jr. and Jodi Lenz. TOWN OF OGEMA • Benjamin Roycraft and Amy Abele Roycraft to Adam Utke. • Gregory and Rosalie Hartmann and Marlon Sanchez to Tanowemag Farm Family Trust. • Bruce Meyer to Donald A. & Tracy C. Janes Revocable Trust. TOWN OF SPIRIT • Michael Nelson to Dale and Beth Thoreson.

Price County, WI · 2d

Rice Lake Chronotype

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Property Committee dims on campus solar array proposal

The Barron County Property Committee, at its Monday, Nov. 9, meeting, indefinitely tabled pursuing a solar array project at UW-Eau Claire — Barron County, opting to keep the green space as is rather than filling it with solar panels to potentially raise funds for the university and county. The committee members had a copy of a Solar Feasibility Study that was prepared by Upper 90, a Centrix Company. According to the study’s executive summary, the county and campus engaged in the firm to evaluate the feasibility of a ground-mounted solar array on undeveloped county-owned land at the campus at 1800 College Drive, Rice Lake. The study was funded by the Wisconsin Public Service Commission Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant. It presented two options, both of which would generate more electricity than the entire campus currently uses in a year. The second option would generate roughly three times campus usage. The study said the array site — east of the main campus — appears workable as it sits away from the Red Cedar River mitigating DNR shoreline/floodplain concerns. It stated that the main obstacles would include relocating a portion of the adjacent disc golf course and installing a security fencing

Barron County, WI · 3d

Rice Lake Chronotype

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Massie family recognized with Century certificates

The descendants of Benjamin Massie were recognized with a Century Family certificate at the Thursday, Nov. 11, meeting of the Blue Hills Genealogical Society, which met at the new Welcome Center adjacent to Pioneer Village Museum west of Cameron. Each receiving a certificate recognizing them as a Century Family were siblings Yvonne Massie Madison and Jerry Massie, the great-grandchildren of Benjamin Massie, who settled in the Sioux Creek area of Barron County in the 1880s. With them to receive the Century Family recognition were Jerry’s three sons, Chad, Kelly and Shane, and Yvonne’s daughter Leslie Madison Olson. Families who have ancestors who were living in Barron County for 100 years or more, and can provide documentation of it, are eligible to receive the Century certificate. The society awards the Pioneer certificate to those families who can provide documentation that their family was living in Barron County by 1871, when the county was formed. The society honors descendants who have researched genealogical information with the applications preserved and stored in the society’s resource room that is now housed at the Welcome Center. In addition to the recognition, a tour was given of the new building that includes a classroom, a research

Cameron, WI · 1d

Rice Lake Chronotype

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Raffle items now on display at Senior Center

The public is encouraged to support the Rice Lake Senior Center by attending its Vendor and Craft Sale, with lunch served all day, on Saturday, Nov. 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The sale will include crafts, jewelry, baked goods and more. In addition, a raffle is taking place that includes vintage quilts, gift baskets and more. Raffle tickets are $2 each or six for $10 and may be purchased now until the drawing on the day of the sale at 3 p.m. The public may stop by the center at 12 W. Humbird St. anytime during business hours., which are week days from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., to see and bid on the raffle items.

Rice Lake, WI · 19h

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Voters give some Wisconsin school districts a financial lifeline, others face dire cuts

Voters in Sawyer County kept the small, rural school district of Winter alive by passing an operational referendum in the November midterm election. District leaders were preparing to dissolve the district if voters had rejected the tax levy increase. Other districts that failed referendums are facing the same threat, as...

Wisconsin · 1d

Mesabi Tribune

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Outpouring of support for family of Hibbing man

HIBBING—The community is rallying around the family of Nick Groszbach, a 37-year-old husband and father of three, who lost his life in a two-car collision this past week just north of Minong, Wis. Groszbach was traveling home from work. He and the other driver, an 80-year-old man from Minong, both died as a result of the crash that happened just before 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, according to the Wisconsin State Patrol as reported on several news outlets. Groszbach is survived by his wife, Pia, and the couple’s three young children, ages, seven, five and one-year-old. News of the tragic loss hit close to home at the Hibbing Parents Nursery School and Daycare, where Pia Groszbach, Nick’s wife is the director. “The sweetest, most loving family is going through an unimaginable loss right now,” Niki Steel, a Board Director at the childcare center wrote on a Go-Fund-Me page she set up to help out the family. “This is just horrible,” said Sara Krauth, a teacher at the nonprofit, parent cooperative that provides childcare to children from 16 months through 11-years-old. Krauth said Pia and Nick moved to the area from Rochester in 2022, and since have been embraced by

Hibbing, MN · 5d

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Wisconsin reports second child measles death

DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is reporting a second child death due to measles. Both deaths were in southwestern Wisconsin. The report comes as Wisconsin and Minnesota report the highest number of measles cases in more than 35 years. None of those cases...

Wisconsin · 15h

Rice Lake Chronotype

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Rice Lake’s Schmidt signs commitment to UW-Green Bay

For Rice Lake High School senior Addison Schmidt, she’s always dreamed of playing a sport in college. She’s not only going to get to do that, but she’ll be playing two. At a ceremony at Ole Olsen Gym on Wednesday, Nov. 11, Schmidt signed her letter of intent to join both the basketball and volleyball programs at UW-Green Bay. “I’m definitely really excited about it,” Schmidt said. “It’s definitely been one of my goals to play one or even two sports at the next level, so finding the right place for me that just so happened to be DI at two levels is super exciting and fun.” The three-sport standout for the Warriors has competed at the state level and earned all-conference honors in three sports — basketball, volleyball, and track and field. Schmidt wrapped up her high school volleyball career last month as the program’s leader in both kills (1,271) and blocks (396). She has twice earned second team all-conference honors, and this season was named to the first team. Schmidt was a Wisconsin Volleyball Coaches Association All-State honorable mention as a sophomore and junior and this year was an American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Region selection. As of her

Rice Lake, WI · 2d

Leader Telegram

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Bloomer’s Hartman triplets commit to South Dakota State

BLOOMER — The Bloomer High School girls cross country and track and field teams have had the blessing of having Aliya, Briella and Ciara Hartman on their teams over the years. That blessing will come to a close following next spring as the senior triplets graduate, but will continue at the Division I collegiate level next fall, as the Hartman triplets announced via social media of their commitment to South Dakota State University for both cross country and track and field. The Hartmans wrapped up their stellar cross country career this fall, claiming the Blackhawks’ fourth consecutive sectional and conference titles. Aliya Hartman further put a bow on the Blackhawks cross country season, setting a new state meet record at the Division 1 meet in Wisconsin Rapids and becoming Bloomer’s first individual girls state champion in cross country. She won with a blazing time of 17 minutes and 1.6 seconds, besting the previous record by nearly 25 seconds, as the Blackhawks finished fourth in a highly-competitive Division 1 field. It continued a standout year for Aliya Hartman, who won the 3,200 meter state track title last spring. The Hartmans, along with senior running mate Sophie Strand, all played huge roles

Bloomer, WI · 1d

Ashland Daily Press

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WVCB-LP brings community radio back to the Bay Area

After more than nine years without one, the Chequamegon Bay area has a community radio station again. WVCB-LP, which calls itself “The Voice of Chequamegon Bay,” went on the air Nov. 7 at 97.7 FM. The nonprofit, low-power station broadcasts with 100 watts from the Ashland transmitter site of Wisconsin Public Radio, and its signal can be heard in most of the Bay Area. “Our programming–music, news, documentary, and discussion–strengthens our sense of place and connection among communities along the South Shore of Lake Superior,” the station’s website, wvcb.org, says. WVCB board member and finance director Tim Pavlish said the idea for a new community station took shape shortly after Northland College’s campus station, WRNC-LP, went off the air in May 2017, a victim of budget cuts. “It sort of felt that we’d never get to the finish line,” Pavlish said. “It’s super exciting, and I am so glad that we have been able to build this out for the community. At this point it is now in the hands of the community to make the station what they want to make of it, to make shows that discuss things that are happening in the area or play their favorite

Ashland, WI · 2d

Ashland Daily Press

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Bay Area conservation projects share more than $310,000 in coastal grants

A 132-acre forest once owned by Northland College, a riverfront parcel next to Big Rock County Park, and a new trail at Lost Creek Falls are among the Bayfield, Ashland, and Douglas county projects sharing more than $310,000 in Wisconsin Coastal Management grants. Wisconsin Department of Administration Secretary Kathy Blumenfeld presented the awards Oct. 28 on the banks of the Sioux River at Big Rock County Park, just outside Washburn. “Every year we award a million dollars in grants to help our coastal communities to enhance public access, education, community planning and support to preserve our wonderful waterways, both for ourselves and for generations to come,” Blumenfeld said. The largest grant, $180,774, will help buy the Maxwell Forest property from Northland College. The purchase will protect and expand public access to 132 acres of undeveloped forest, shoreland, and river bluffs in the White River watershed, which straddles Ashland and Bayfield counties. “This is an amazing opportunity,” said Erica Hannickel, an Ashland County grant writer. “I am so grateful for the Coastal Management program for being able to fund this project. It really was a partnership to be able to protect this land, 132 acres and to work with Landmark Conservancy

Bayfield County, WI · 2d

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DATCP Confirms Bird Flu in Rusk County Backyard Poultry Flock

Wisconsin agriculture officials confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza in a backyard poultry flock in Rusk County on Thursday. The birds on the premises were depopulated and will not enter the food system. The confirmation comes while wild birds are still moving through the state on fall migration, a period when...

Rusk County, WI · 18h

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Burnett County Completes $1.8 Million Forest Carbon Credit Sale

BURNETT COUNTY — Timberlands Carbon Program, developed with The Climate Trust, turns long-term forest stewardship into new resources for the community. Almost three years after the County Board approved the Burnett County Timberlands Carbon Program, Burnett County has completed a carbon credit sale of just over $1.8 million. Working in partnership with The Climate Trust, the County developed, marketed and sold its first year of carbon credits.

Burnett County, WI · 1d

Spooner Advocate

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More than Internet: Creating opportunity across Spooner's rural roads

EVERGREEN TOWNSHIP — A few miles outside of Spooner, at the Evergreen Town Hall, there is a place where residents can access technology to keep them informed about happenings in the community, create new opportunities or simply complete a form. No account, no subscription and no payment are needed. But it’s more than a computer lab. It’s a visible reminder of what can happen when communities, local leaders and technology providers work together to expand access and opportunity. What many homes and businesses need is access to the same level of high-speed internet found in larger metropolitan areas. Today, through projects like the USDA Community Connect initiative, Mosaic Technologies is helping close that gap for families, students and businesses throughout the Spooner area. For students, that means having dependable access to online learning resources, research tools and educational opportunities, regardless of where they live. A student on a rural road outside Spooner should have the same ability to complete assignments, participate in virtual learning and prepare for the future as students anywhere else in Wisconsin. For businesses, fiber Internet creates opportunities for growth. Local retailers, manufacturers, professional offices and entrepreneurs increasingly depend on cloud-based systems, video communications and online platforms

Spooner, WI · 1d

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Adams awesome in winning both Modified and Midwest Modified National titles

Cameron, Wisconsin’s Blake Adams isn’t just the son of 5-time WISSOTA National Champion Kevin Adams anymore. At just the age of 17, he now has 3-time WISSOTA national championships of his own to brag about. After a 53-win season between his WISSOTA Modified and WISSOTA Midwest Modified, he pulled off the unthinkable double, winning both the Modified and Midwest Modified National titles in the same season.

Cameron, WI · 2d

Rice Lake Chronotype

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Barron County stays red, but state goes blue; local legislators comment

Barron County voters had the Republican party’s back on Nov. 3, but the rest of Wisconsin did not follow suit, elected a slate of Democrats to the state’s top offices and flipped the Legislature. Entering Wisconsin’s Fall Election, the GOP knew it was facing a possible midterm-election upheaval. In Wisconsin, President Donald Trump’s approval rating was 37%, according to a Marquette Law School Poll released Oct. 28. Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley had the support of 51% of likely voters, compared with GOP opponent Tom Tiffany’s support at 44%. But Barron County has a deep red streak when it comes to voting, and election results showed it stayed true to form. GovernorCrowley, the Milwaukee County administrator, won 7,550 out of 20,163 votes cast in his race in the county, or 37% of the vote. On the other hand Tiffany, a Minocqua resident who gave up a reelection bid for Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District representative to run for governor, earned 12,613, or 63% of the vote. Included in these totals were votes from Rice Lake, which gave Tiffany 1,767 votes out of 3,331 cast between them (53%) to Crowley’s 1,564 (47%). Statewide, however, Crowley won handily with 54% of the nearly

Barron County, WI · 3d

Rice Lake Chronotype

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Soccer: Rice Lake trio earn all-conference honors

A trio of seniors on the Rice Lake boys soccer team received all-conference honors from the Big Rivers Conference. Cale Ash was named to the 11-member all-conference first team. Andy Acevedo-Sanchez was a second team selection and Ben Jevne was an honorable mention. According to Bound Wisconsin, Ash’s 30 goals during the season were first in the Big Rivers, and his eight goals during conference games were fifth. He also added 11 assists on the season as his 71 points were tied for 12th in the state. Ash finishes his career with 66 goals and 159 points. Acevedo-Sanchez scored eight times and had seven assists from the midfield. His assists were seventh in the league and his goals 10th. Acevedo-Sanchez scored 16 goals and had 44 total points during his career. Jevne finished second on the team with 19 goals this season, including seven during the Warriors’ playoff run to the state tournament. His goal total ranked fifth in the Big Rivers. Jevne totaled 31 goals and 22 assists during his career. Being named the Big Rivers Conference Player of the Year was Hudson senior Calvin Lessard, who repeated after the winning the award last season. Big Rivers All-Conference First

Rice Lake, WI · 1d

Rice Lake Chronotype

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City Council OKs budget levy, abruptly adjourns amid arguments

The Rice Lake City Council approved the 2027 Budget levy during a public hearing, but discussions over Senior Center funding and agenda items that included reviews of the city administrator performance process and council procedures turned argumentative and led nowhere. 2027 Budget The council met in full on Tuesday, Nov. 10, but no members of the public appeared in person or spoke during the 2027 Budget public hearing. City Administrator SJ Johnson explained discrepancies between the published budget proposal and the budget summary provided in the council’s packet. For example, the published budget reflected a balance between revenues and expenditures of $10.2 million. The summary, however, showed expenditures at $10.65 million. Johnson said the budget as published was the city’s best estimate at the time. Council Member Abbey Fischer asked if she could address adding $10,000 in funding for the Rice Lake Senior Center. But Mayor Harlan Dodge and Council Member Jim Resac expressed concerns about the legalities of altering the budget at the Nov. 10 meeting. Johnson said state code dictates that the proposed budget should be adopted on or before Nov. 14. “If you change what the budget looks like and that's been presented to the public, you're

Rice Lake, WI · 2d