My wife and I celebrated our 27th anniversary Sept. 19. We (she) decided to celebrate our mostly blissful, sometimes tumultuous years together (9,862 days) not by traveling to a warm beach or remote tropical paradise but by sharing her dad’s lakefront cabin (Wausau home) on Lily Lake near Pickerel.

National Taco Day is Oct. 4. Taco pie is a delicious new spin on normal tacos.

UW-Eau Claire

A total of 430 incoming freshmen received scholarships from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for the 2025-26 academic year, with many students receiving multiple awards. Each award varies in amount and criteria.

Local recipients include:

Krakow: McKenna Rohloff, Pulaski High School, Freshman Honors Scholarship

Leadership Shawano County has spent 25 years developing future community leaders, and many of the past participants came together Sept. 18 at the North Star Mohican Casino Resort.

Menominee tribal members engaged in big food projects or who want to host larger quantities of people for feasts have a place to do so now.

Flowers and more are thriving at Bloomed on Dairy, located at N4863 County Road F outside of Bonduel.

Owner Kaci Wolf has flowers for just about every occasion, noting: “Flowers fill the void when words fall short.”