Applications are now available for the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council.

Current high school juniors are encouraged to apply through March 31.

As winter travel season continues, area banks are reminding consumers to take extra precautions to protect online accounts and personal information while away from home.

University of Wisconsin-Extension is conducting an event to help grain producers better understand how crop insurance and marketing opportunities and tools interact and how they can best select from the available crop insurance opportunities.

Green Bay author Therese Langer Woelfel will discuss her book “Our Guiding Light: Wisdom from the Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter” at 6:30 p.m. March 5 at the Beyer Home and Carriage Museum, 915 Park Ave., Oconto, as part of the Oconto County Historical Society’s monthly speaker series.

Tucked in the back of Mimi’s Closet and More’s vendor village is an unassuming booth that carries a very unique product, Elderberry Syrup Brew Kits.

Bonnie Cotter, of Shawano, is the owner of Bonnie’s Naturals. She began selling her special handcrafted elderberry syrup brew kits recently in her booth at 105 N. Airport Road, Shawano.

“I always am being creative on how to help other people,” Cotter said.

A new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., looks back on the career of the late Truman Lowe, a Ho-Chunk artist and educator known for his ability to make wood look like water.