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Viroqua WPA Bathhouse restoration on track for 2025 renovation after meeting fundraising goal

December 5, 2024 VIROQUA, Wis. — The vision of Viroqua’s 1936 WPA (Works Progress Administration) Bathhouse becoming the Viroqua Welcome Center is closer to becoming a reality. The WPA Bathhouse Task Force is...

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‘We own it. It’s our place.’ Worsened care feared as some Wisconsin counties privatize their nursing homes

Editors note: Vernon County recently signed a management agreement with Bethany St. Joseph Corporation (BSJ) of La Crosse to manage the county owned nursing home and assisted living facility for them. BSJ is a...

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Biden approves national security memo on China, Iran, North Korea and Russia ahead of Trump’s return

Dec 11, 2024 By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has approved a new national security memorandum ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House that could serve as...

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Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, an AP-NORC poll finds

Dec 11, 2024 By WILL WEISSERT and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter after earlier...

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Trump says he’ll name Andrew Ferguson head of FTC and Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece

Dec 10, 2024 By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump made another flurry of job announcements on Tuesday, selecting Andrew Ferguson as the next chair of the...

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Vernon County Sheriff’s Report for the week ending Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024

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Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors

Dec 10, 2024 By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised...

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DNR releases 2024 air quality trends report

Includes Air Monitoring Data Through 2023 MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today released its annual air quality trends report. This year’s report covers 20 years of...

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Viroqua WPA Bathhouse restoration on track for 2025 renovation after meeting fundraising goal

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Vernon County Sheriff’s Report for the week ending Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024

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City of Viroqua main street traffic project paused until spring, sewer projects to continue

VIROQUA, Wis. – With about two thirds of the construction work on Main Street completed, the city of Viroqua announced this week that cold weather has caused them to pause work on the project, probably until warm...

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Lone Rock man arrested for child pornography in Richland County

RICHLAND COUNTY, Wis. – Richland County Sheriff Clay Porter reported this week that an investigation resulting from two CyberTips they received as an affiliate member of the Wisconsin Internet Crimes Against...

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18-year-old Gays Mills man suffers minor injuries in Bell Center rollover crash

BELL CENTER, Wis. – The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office reports that 18-year-old Keith Bankes of Gays Mills suffered minor injuries as the result of a rollover crash on Friday. According to the...

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Tomah send off ceremony for Wisconsin National Guard “Maverick” Battalion

by Paul Gorman TOMAH, Wis. – More than 60 Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers with the 732nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company were mobilized to active duty November...

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Michigan woman arrested on drug charges, impaired driving, after striking Stoddard fire hydrant

STODDARD, Wis. – Vernon County Sheriff Roy Torgerson reports the arrest of Cynthia Sue Ostrander, 58, of Clay, Mich, as the result of a single-vehicle crash in the Village of Stoddard. According to the Sheriff’s...

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Aronia Berries of Viroqua: A Story of Roots, Wellness, and Community

The McIntosh Memorial Library’s Meet Your Neighbor Program for December is scheduled for Friday, December 20 at 10:00 AM in the library lobby. Join us for an inspiring presentation about aronia berries, a unique and...

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Student and instructor both injured during emergency landing of small plane at the Boscobel airport

BOSCOBEL, Wis. – The Boscobel Police Department is reporting a fight instructor and their student both suffered minor injuries over the weekend after they were forced to do an emergency landing due to mechanical...

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Vernon County Sheriff’s Report for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024

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‘We own it. It’s our place.’ Worsened care feared as some Wisconsin counties privatize their nursing homes

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Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors

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DNR releases 2024 air quality trends report

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DNR seeking public comments on proposed deer management unit rule

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the start of a public comment period for a draft rule that would rework portions of the state’s deer management unit ...

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Wisconsin’s outdoor recreation industry adds another record-breaking $11.2 billion to state economy

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Tourism Secretary Anne Sayers and Wisconsin Office of Outdoor Recreation Director Cassie Mordini, today announced another record-breaking year...

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Wisconsin DOJ receives $7 million for substance abuse treatment

by Andrew Kennard, Wisconsin Examiner December 9, 2024 The Wisconsin Department of Justice has been awarded a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to increase access to substance abuse treatment, the...

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Gov. Evers, Eli Lilly, celebrate $3 billion expansion of manufacturing facility in Wisconsin

According to the company, the investment will benefit millions of patients worldwide, create 2,000 construction jobs, and add 750 highly skilled jobs to Southeastern Wisconsin KENOSHA, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers today...

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Conservation trailblazers: amplifying water quality benefits through stacking practices

By Whitney Prestby, Natural Resources Educator — UW-Madison Division of Extension Natural Resources Institute December 05, 2024 Kinnard Farms is the first in the nation to have a denitrifying bioreactor and a Phosphorus...

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Bureau of Prisons suspends operations at a minimum-security camp in Wisconsin, AP reports

by Andrew Kennard, Wisconsin Examiner December 6, 2024 The Federal Bureau of Prisons is closing a women’s prison and other facilities “after years of abuse and decay,” the Associated Press has reported. The bureau is...

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Biden approves national security memo on China, Iran, North Korea and Russia ahead of Trump’s return

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Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, an AP-NORC poll finds

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Trump says he’ll name Andrew Ferguson head of FTC and Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece

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Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort

Dec 10, 2024 By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration, Republican governors and lawmakers in some states are already rolling out proposals...

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USDA makes $2 billion available to support expansion of current and development of new markets

Dec. 9, 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) $2 billion Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program, aimed at helping specialty crop producers...

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Elon Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump’s way — or his

Dec 9, 2024 By THOMAS BEAUMONT, JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A week after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Elon Musk said his political action committee would “play...

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Lone Rock man arrested for child pornography in Richland County

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Michigan woman arrested on drug charges, impaired driving, after striking Stoddard fire hydrant

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Monroe County man charged for allegedly possessing and creating child sex abuse images and videos

TOMAH, Wis. – Authorities in Monroe County announced they have arrested of 56-year-old James Ossinger of rural Tomah after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the...

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Crawford County Sheriff’s Office reports traffic stop that led to arrest on multiple charges

Shane Klemz CRAWFORD COUNTY, Wis. – On Wednesday, September 25, Sheriff Dale McCullick reports that the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle operated by Shane Klemz , 40, of...

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Two people from Iowa face drug charges after traffic stop in Prairie du Chien

Oct 2, 2024 Prairie du Chien – On Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, Sheriff Dale McCullick reports that the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle operated by Monica Knockel, 45, of Monona...

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Tomah man charged with murdering Terry Dolowy 40 years ago, also faces charges for allegedly extorting woman with nude photos in Monroe County

SPARTA, Wis. – Last week authorities in Vernon, La Crosse and Monroe counties announced they believe they have solved a 40-year-old homicide case using DNA technology. A DNA sample collected from the autopsy of...

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