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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 skyward, like nothing Alsteen has seen in her 18 years in realty. “All of a sudden, it was just l...

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 its broadband expansion plan. Combined with state money it got for Phase 1, the town has now been awa...

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 everywhere,” said Rhinelander Superintendent Eric Burke. A new initiative including Grow North, the Sc...

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 NSW's central west.(9News) But the plague of millions of mice running rampant across the state's central west has snatched that away. "It's a puni...

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,” he explained. Nathan’s wife and business partner, Erica, watched nearby.