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By Gregg Hoffmann WisBusiness.com LA CROSSE – The La Crosse Center continues to attract the interest of sports franchises and leagues, despite the rejections last year of minor league basketball and hockey. The Great Lakes Indoor Football League, a first-year, six-team league that is based out of Canton, Ohio, has expressed interest in putting a team in La Crosse as part of...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, www.uwsp.edu/news January 23, 2006 The lower section of the St. Croix River was named Wisconsin’s first-ever designated national scenic riverway in 1968. The upper (eight-mile) headwaters segment, which was not included in the riverway, lacked protections and current water-quality monitoring data. A local grassroots organization, the Friends of the St. Croix Headwaters in Gordon,...

(Madison, Wis.) – Planet Propaganda has hired Eena Ballard as a project manager specializing in interactive media for such passion-based brands as Gary Fisher mountain bikes, Bretford furniture and workspaces, PunchStock royalty-free images, and Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches. With an eye for detail and an ear for music, Ballard brings eight years of experience in developing, testing, deploying and maintaining...

Interview Contact: Ed Schaefer, president of Silver Spring Gardens (715) 830-5280 eschaefer@silverspringgardens.com Media Contact: Joan Collins Joan Collins Publicity, Inc. (608) 222-2899 jpublicity@aol.com Silver Spring Gardens, Eau Claire, WI, has acquired the Thor-Shackel Horseradish Company, Burr Ridge, Illinois. Ed Schaefer, president and CEO of Silver Spring Gardens, the world’s largest grower and processor of horseradish products, said the firm will produce Thor’s Hot Horseradish, Thor’s...

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Scott Manley, (608) 258-3400 Up to 4,000 Jobs Lost Due to Mandate, Study Finds MADISON – A proposal to force consumers to buy gasoline blended with 10 percent ethanol will drive up utility costs in Wisconsin by $366 million – a 7 percent increase -- and could result in as many as 4,000 lost jobs, WMC reported Monday. “It’s...

For more information, contact:Gary Morgenstern (908) 234-6416 gmorgenstern@att.com Recognized AT&T VoIP Services Four Times for 2005 Market Leadership Bedminster, N.J., Jan. 23, 2006 — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced today that TMC has selected AT&T as the recipient of its 2005 VoIP Product of the Year Award for AT&T Voice Dynamic Network Applications(SM) (DNA) service. This most recent award is the fourth such...