The generosity of area residents, organizations, and businesses, helped make sure almost 1,200 area children received toys for Christmas through the Central Wisconsin Electric Cooperative (CWEC) Marine Corps Reserves Toys for Tots campaign. That marked an increase of almost 150 children when compared to the 2022 CWEC Toys for Tots campaign. Toy donations were collected at more than 30 area businesses, including in Birnamwood, Bowler, Elderon, Ros

The cost to bring water to Pulaski from the Green Bay Water Utility is an estimated $15.3 million, according to a construction application filed last month with the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. The project could pump up overall water rates by 218%, staff at Robert E. Lee Engineering estimated. Efforts to get current water rates locally were unsuccessful.

To the editor: Let’s do more than hope 2024 will improve the crisis at the U.S. southern border. Let’s get our Congress to actually do it. For many, building “a big, beautiful wall” has long been the battle-cry for a quick, simple solution. Think again. During the Trump administration, 458 miles of wall were completed — 52 new, the remaining 406 replaced existing sections with taller, hollow-steel bars.

In what was supposed to be a rebuilding season, the Green Bay Packers, led by first-year starting quarterback Jordan Love, have clinched a wild card spot and the seventh seed in the NFC Playoffs. Coming into the season, it seemed fairly unlikely that this iteration of the Green Bay Packers would be able to come anywhere close to sniffing a playoff spot.

More than a decade ago, Lori Mueller, of Eland, was nominated for and selected as a finalist for the Green Bay Packers Fan Hall of Fame. She didn’t make the final cut that year, but she’s back for the latest round of voting. Mueller, a fourth grade teacher at Bowler Elementary School, was nominated by her sister, Jennifer Postler, who described Mueller as the most involved Packers fan she has ever known. “She has taught a summer school class for

The Green Bay Packers are in the playoffs. Less than a year after making seismic changes to their organization, and less than three months after falling to 2-5, the Packers are now 9-8 and headed to the postseason for the first time since 2021. The Dallas Cowboys are the NFC’s No.

Benny Sapp III is a strong safety for the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at Northern Iowa and Minnesota. His father, Benny Sapp II, was an NFL cornerback. Also playing college football at Northern Iowa, he was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2004.

All of us can do little things to make a big difference in preventing accidents. We all tend to have 20/20 hindsight after an accident, but of course, then it’s too late.

This week, I selected book 4 in Joanna Campbell Slan’s Kiki Lowenstein series, “Photo, Snap, Shot.” Kiki Lowenstein grew up dirt poor but managed to get a scholarship to study journalism. Within a month she met George Lowenstein, attended a party, got drunk and ended up pregnant. They married and returned to his hometown of St. Louis. Kiki and baby Anya are introduced to the elite society of her disapproving mother-in-law, Sheila.