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Dairy farmers Kyle and Rachel Zwieg of Ixonia are winners of the 68th WI Outstanding Young Farmer award.

Two co-workers now share an inextricable bond ever since a woman donated her kidney to a man who has kidney disease.

—indeed, still is —one of my heroes. While I didn’t meet him until 2002, when I first went to Lawrence for the Sturgeon Award ceremony, I already admired his writing, both fiction and non-fiction, and had benefited greatly from his expansive, benevolent influence on science fiction as critic, anthologist, conference organizer and educator. Sitting rapt in Jim’s KU office as he talked about the field he loved, I realized that my own mentor John Kessel had sat there just the same, as Jim’s student in the 1970s. Kessel was my thesis director at North Carolina State University, and for ...

Shane and Jennifer Sauer of Waterloo are among the five finalists for the 67th Wisconsin Outstanding Young Farmer (OYF) Award. The finalists for the 2021 distinction will participate in the OYF Awards Weekend Jan. 22-24 at the Best Western Premier Bridgewood Resort Hotel & Conference Center in Neenah. The OYF candidates are sponsored to the state event by past OYF finalists, UW Extension County Ag Agents or other agricultural groups; sponsors can still contribute to the overall event or a specific candidate. Due to Covid-19 the event will not be open to the public. The Sauers own a dairy farm...