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For eight days, Heerman and his crew scoured the river. Logs were removed from cornfields, islands, thickets, creeks and wherever else wind and waves had pushed them. Some were sailing down the river and had to be pursued in skiffs.

Star Journal News Briefs Three Lakes looks to revitalize downtown Three Lakes has been accepted into the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s Connect Communities Program. It is an initiative that works with communities to advance downtown revitalization efforts. Three Lakes is one of nine communities in the state that were added to the program last month. “The Three Lakes Chamber and the Forward Three Lakes Downtown Working Group are thri...

Willard home, and family legacy, endure FacebookTwitterEmail 1of33 David and Kim Willard stand among a stairwell filled with family photographs in their home, which is the first brick residence ever built by and for a Black family in Beaumont. The two-story home on Gladys Avenue was built by Davids great-grandfather Elmo Riley Willard, I, who was born in August of 1867 on the Calder Plantation, where his parents, Riley Elmo Willard and Margaret Willard, were slaves. A placard mounted near the f...

ROCKLAND — A proposed set of two five-story apartment buildings in Rockland drew renewed public and official opposition after the developer submitted a new set of plans during a zoning board of appeals meeting Tuesday night. The Shingle Mill project, composed of 236 units across two buildings, is being proposed under the states Chapter 40B regulation, which allows projects to skirt normal zoning regulations if at least 20 percent of the project is devoted to affordable housing.  Want n...