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5:59 Realtor Lisa Alsteen shows off the features of a century-old four-bedroom house near the courthouse in Rhinelander. Painted blue on the outside, it has wood floors, a sunny living room, and an inviting porch in front. Alsteen listed the home, located at 133 North Oneida Avenue, on Monday. By midday Tuesday, several potential buyers had already been though for showings. She expected an offer wouldn’t take long. That’s typical these days. Last spring, the demand for Northwoods homes shot...

This month, construction work will ramp up in Boulder Junction. It’s a tangible step toward providing fiberoptic broadband service to hundreds of homes and businesses in the town. But that’s not the only good new broadband advocates in Boulder Junction got recently. Fifty-eight broadband expansion projects across the state were awarded grant funding by the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. Out of those 58, Boulder Junction got the largest award, claiming $2.2 million to fund Phase 2 of i...

Population projections show our area is rapidly aging. That promises to put even more strain on employers seeking people to fill jobs, and many of those employers are already struggling to find enough workers. But despite those trends, a new program in the School District of Rhinelander might help fill the gap for employers and their future workers. “It’s clear that there is a tremendous need for staff and skilled employees in almost all business areas, not only Rhinelander, but really ever...

A mouse plague in western NSW is decimating crops, destroying livelihoods and leaving some businesses at breaking point. Record rains and a bumper crop were supposed to bring farmers relief, but it also attracted millions of rodents. The Whiteley family farm in Warren, 500 kilometres from Sydney, has been hit hard over the last few years, but last summer saw a harvest to make up for the hardship. READ MORE: A mouse plague is wiping out crops across NSWs central west.(9News) But the plague of mi...

His canvas is a tree or a massive wood slab. Nathan Nuszkiewicz working on a sculpture in 2020. Credit Potlicker Chainsaw Sculptures On Monday, he was outside his Rhinelander home and shop, working on a woodcarving to go on a roof peak at a customer’s home. “It’s going to be a whole scene, where we’ve got the trees and the sky and the clouds and the sunset in the middle, and then, through that, there’s going to be an actual six- to six-and-a-half foot eagle flying out over the trees,�...

Can you spot yourself in our archive school photos from the 1990s? THE bell is ringing and its time to line up for another slice of school nostalgia. As promised, were returning to Colchester Royal Grammar School for the second of three spreads featuring archive pictures from the 1990s. Todays selection features quizmasters, Oxbridge candidates, a reunion of old boys and former headmaster Stewart Francis. Reliving the past - this reunion of Grammar School ‘old boys’ took place in Dece...

CADILLAC — The eyes of past and present 28th Circuit Court judges watched as Lindsey Meier gave her closing arguments of a murder trial.

Heather Berklund never envisioned herself as the Chief State Forester. She had worked for the DNR forestry division for two decades in the Northwoods, but didn’t have her mind set on the top job. “I would say it was never on my radar that I would ever be talking to you in this role or be in this position,” Berklund said on a recent interview, conducted while snowshoeing through the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest near Woodruff. But hard work and dedication paid off, and the...

AleSocci/GreenPixel Seventy teams from across New Zealand will head to Rotorua this March for the 2021 GODZone event. File photo. It piqued the interest of a group of Waikato farmers and a former Auckland rugby player 18 months ago, and they’ve been training since. Hailing from the Matamata-Piako District, Steve Borkin, Rose Carnachan, Kieran Landley and Ben Meyer say they are “more than ready” after the GODZone’s 2019 challenge was postponed due to Covid-19. “It’s been a long ti...

But in March 2020, they were forced to close as COVID-19 swept the state. That meant hundreds of millions of dollars for tribal health care, education, and social services evaporated as casino revenues slowed or stopped. Casinos in our area are mostly open again, but things aren’t like they were before. And it could be years before revenues recover. Table games at Mole Lake Casino remain closed for safety. Credit Ben Meyer/WXPR Many casinos were at least partially open again by June 2020, but...