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With so many businesses closing or hanging on by a thread during the recession, Adventure Rock, an indoor rock climbing gym in suburban Milwaukee that opened in 1991, just had its best year ever. It and other indoor sports facilities in Wisconsin are doing things like hiring and planning new construction -- activities that for other luxury businesses...

New Session Kicks Off Sept. 16 in Milwaukee MADISON, Wis. – ExporTech, a new program to help small and midsize manufacturers develop an export program and fast-track international sales, is getting high marks from its first class of graduates. “ExporTech helped us tap a wealth of resources on all aspects of the exporting process,” said Neil Karolek, president of...

Contact: Jason A. Smith, communications director Free, Public Lectures Highlight Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Aspects of Healthy Aging Menasha—The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the University of Wisconsin–Fox Valley, is pleased to present Age On! A Series On Growing Older, Better, a new Academy...

Contact: Joshua Wescott, Office of the County Executive (608) 267-8823 or cell (608) 669-5606 The Dane County UW-Extension Cooperative Extension has announced the hiring of Carrie Edgar as the new director of the County’s Extension Department. Edgar comes to Dane County after more than 11 years as County Extension Director for two counties in Illinois. There she managed a...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, http://www.uwsp.edu/news A collaborative program that will help area technical school early childhood education graduates earn bachelor’s degrees in education as well as Wisconsin teacher certification has been announced by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In the spring of 2011, the UWSP School of Education will launch the Central Wisconsin Alliance for Early Childhood/ Early...