Month: November 2023

Wisconsin christmas tree growers continue to thrive despite challenges.  State Christmas Tree Producers Association spokesman Greg Hann says he thinks it's going to be another strong year with strong sales.  Hann says christmas tree growers have adapted to unusual weather patterns, such as this summer's drought, by changing industry common practices.  Hann says the industry also naturally adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and has been thriving since.

In 1983, Milwaukee trio Violent Femmes released their self-titled debut, an album that would quickly enter the college-rock pantheon for its spirited acoustic punk.  Forty years later, Craft Recordings has released a deluxe edition of the record, in which the cult band turns back the clock to a moment of intense creative output.  “Violent Femmes (Deluxe Edition),” out Friday, is a competent remaster and a brilliantly curated collection of artifacts, with more than […]

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers and the Evers Administration today invited Wisconsinites to join the annual State Capitol Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration on Fri., Dec. 1, 2023, at 12 p.m. in the Rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This year, the celebration will be hosted by Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) Executive Director Elmer Moore Jr., and the governor and members of the Evers Administration will be joined by musical guests […]

 Dr. George E. Koonce, Senior Vice President for University Relations at Marian University and former linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, has been selected for one of The Black Excellence Awards, for being an exceptional person who has made a positive impact toward the City of Milwaukee.  The award is sponsored by WISN-TV 12, The Milwaukee Business Journal and the Greater Milwaukee Urban League.  “I am honored and humbled by the Black Excellence Award,” […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love is producing as many long pass completions as anyone in the league in his first year as a starter.  Yet the key to his recent surge has been his willingness to settle for a smaller gain when a big play isn’t available. Love has thrown for 590 yards with five touchdown passes and no interceptions during the two-game winning streak […]

No serious injuries as rescue personnel responded to more than two dozen crashes on slippery roads in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties Thursday morning.  Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt says icy roads are to blame.  Five vehicles including an ambulance were involved in a crash on Interstate 41 near Lomira.   A portion of I-41 was closed between Highway B and state Highway 49 following the crash.

Two people were killed in a head on collision caused by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 41 in Dodge County.  Preliminary reports indicate a vehicle traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of 41 collided head on with a southbound vehicle near state Highway 67.   The driver of the northbound vehicle, an 82 year old Campbellsport woman,  and the driver of the southbound vehicle, a 34 year old Oshkosh man, were pronounced dead at […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Federal inspectors have levied fines against two construction companies in connection with a worker's death at Lambeau Field earlier this year. The stadium is home to the Green Bay Packers.   Twenty seven-year-old Joshua Shaw died in June after he was struck by a dumbwaiter car while working inside one of the stadium's video scoreboards. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration Fined […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A vehicle wanted in connection with a homicide in Chicago smashed into a school bus while fleeing police in Milwaukee, sending multiple people to area hospitals. Milwaukee police say they began chasing the vehicle Wednesday morning. The vehicle collided with the school bus, which crashed into several other vehicles. The driver of the suspect vehicle fled but was captured after a foot chase. Two people in his […]