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Lawrence University’s 2024-25 Performing Arts Series will feature music ranging from chamber music to jazz and will include a return performance from the two-time Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth, which features Lawrence voice professor Estelí Gomez. Season tickets go on sale July 1; single tickets go on sale Sept. 23. Tickets for Memorial Chapel...

The greater Madison area is seeing “significant” improvements in housing inventory as the market stabilizes, according to a local real estate executive.  Stark Company Realtors President David Stark says this spring brings “far less uncertainty” than was present in early 2023, when rising mortgage rates led to confusion among analysts about the direction of...

MADISON — In an effort to improve delivery of costly medical treatments, a team of researchers in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has developed a stimulating method that could make the human body more receptive to certain gene therapies. The researchers exposed liver cells to short electric pulses — and those gentle...

APPLETON, Wis. —McCarty Law LLP, a top law firm in Northeast Wisconsin, is proud to announce that partner Jon Fischerhas been added to the Wispact board of directors. Wispact is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and improving the quality of life for Wisconsin residents with disabilities, particularly by establishing and managing Special Needs Trusts (SNT) that are used...

RICE LAKE, WI – Labor and delivery services at Marshfield Medical Center-Rice Lake will be temporarily paused beginning May 1 due to staffing limitations that supports the service. The pause is anticipated to last 30-60 days. We understand this diversion is a significant inconvenience to our patients. Affected patients will be notified and we...

MILWAUKEE – The Lake Express Ferry will launch its 2024 travel season providing high-speed ferry service between Wisconsin and Michigan this Friday, May 3 with four daily crossings, the first of which leaves the Milwaukee terminal at 6 a.m. The four-engine powered ship provides modern fast ferry service on Lake Michigan, drawing 100,000 travelers from...

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the 2023 award recipients from the Division of Public Safety and Resource Protection in honor of exemplary public service. “The recipients are walking examples to the public that the DNR is dedicated to its core mission of protecting our natural resources and those...

MADISON, Wis. – Eligible Wisconsin-based nonprofits, public 4K-12 schools, districts and tribal, state or local government entities are invited to apply for a Level Two: Accelerate Community Impact Grant, a funding opportunity released by the Wisconsin Partnership Program, or WPP, at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Eligible organizations must have annual expenses of...

GREEN BAY, Wis. ─ New school meal standards announced last week by the USDA include major steps to promote the health of America’s children through school meals. The new standards will be gradually updated to include less sugar and more flexibility in menu planning between Fall 2025 and Fall 2027, according to the USDA announcement.

– The Door County Workforce Housing Lending Corporation, a partnership between the Door County Community Foundation and NeighborWorks Green Bay is pleased to announce the hire of Kay Smith as the Commercial Lender for the non-profit organization. Smith brings years of experience in the financial services industry, as well as non-profit management here...

Menomonie, Wis. – Traveling 1,200 miles from Menomonie to Anaconda, Mont., nine University of Wisconsin-Stout students recently hiked through snow-dusted mountain meadows, wooded gulches and streams to film a Western short. Loosely inspired by true events, the video production seniors’ capstone project “Ghosts of Gold Creek” is set in 1868, when a U.S. marshal...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (April 30, 2024) – With the Wisconsin fishing season opening this Saturday, Xcel Energy is reminding recreational and fishing enthusiasts to be safe around dams and hydroelectric facilities. “Boating or canoeing above or below a dam can be very dangerous, especially if the flow changes and your boat is anchored in a...