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Elk Mound overthrows Boyceville on third try

After losing to Boyceville for the second time this season on May 14, the Elk Mound baseball team has gone on a tear, outscoring its next three opponents 22-5 to set up another rematch with the Dunn-St. Croix Champion Bulldogs. On Tuesday night, the Mounders made the third time the charm …

May 29, 2012 | 9:13 pm | (0) Comments
‘Ketch’ and release

On Friday afternoon, pit crews released a racing boat into the water during unscheduled practice sessions for the 3M Menomonie Regatta along the Wakanda Beach of Lake Menomin. Races ran Saturday and Sunday.

May 29, 2012 | 2:15 pm | (0) Comments
Little Free Library

Menomonie’s first Little Free Library is located at the corner of 13th Street and 15th Avenue east. Owned by Marv Whitman, the oversized bird house library is perched on a pole and filled with free books. Readers can take a book and/or leave one to keep the library going. For more about t…

May 27, 2012 | 5:00 am | (0) Comments

“They get the gold mine, we get the shaft.”

May 29 Chicken ordinance heads to city council
May 29 Right to the point: Changes proposed to extra- and co-curricular activities
May 29 Car careens over bluff, lands on trail
May 29 ‘Ketch’ and release
May 28 ‘Enough to make a grown man cry’
May 26 Meter matters: Council seeks to issue multiple parking tickets
May 26 School board looks at ways to finance building projects

Sports

: Elk Mound overthrows Boyceville on third try; After losing to Boyceville for the second time this season on May 14, the Elk Mound baseball team has gone on a tear, outscoring its next three opponents 22-5 to set up another rematch with the Dunn-St. Croix Champion Bulldogs. On Tuesday night, the Mounders made the third time the charm as it met Boyceville in the WIAA regional semifinals and defeated the Bulldogs, 3-1, in Boyceville.

May 29 Gangestad, Schoch receive baseball all-region honors
May 29 Nelson wins second title, Stout third as team
May 29 Zarnoth Anderson shatter decathlon record
May 29 Scoville and Krueger 18th at nationals
May 29 Jessika Smith takes heptathlon All-America honors

Galleries

Photo Gallery: Cadott Softball vs. Whitehall 5-29-12

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Photo Gallery: Division 4 softball regional semifinal: Eau Claire Immanuel at McDonell 5-29-12

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Photo Gallery: Stanley-Boyd Baseball vs. Lake Holcombe/Cornell 5-25-12

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Photo Gallery: WIAA Division 2 softball regionals: Somerset at Bloomer 5-25-12

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Dunn County Historical Society presents ‘Show Me Saturday’ event

The Dunn County Historical Society kicks off its "Show Me Saturday" season on Saturday, June 2, with a living history event depicting life in Colonial times. The family event provides visitors the opportunity to explore living history and is the first of a two-part series.

May 29 United Way Spring Carnival is June 6
May 27 Menomonie resident begins Peace Corps service in Senegal
May 27 Little Free Library
May 27 Ludington Guard Band opens 2012 season

Opinion

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Recall ad spending comes at a heavy cost

How many ads can $25.3 million buy? We are finding out as we are relentlessly battered with negative, false and misleading ads — ads paid for by out-of-state billionaires who care nothing about Wisconsin, but very much about consolidating their political power and increasing their net worth.

May 29 Goodwill shall prevail over evil
May 29 Not all teachers want Walker recalled
May 29 Vote for pro-life candidates
May 29 Other view: Interest rate debate a sideshow

History

: Dunn County receives late season frost; “On last Sunday and Monday nights we had frosts sufficiently heavy to fill all the requirements of cold weather in March...”

Business

: Jedlicka earns lifetime packaging honor; Wendy Jedlicka, an instructor since 2009 in the School of Art and Design, has earned the Lifetime Packaging Professional Certification from the Institute of Packaging Professionals. It takes 10 years of incremental review to earn the status, the highest IoPP offers.

Agriculture

Tree Farmers of the Year to hold field day

Jim and Ann Heerey, Wisconsin Tree Farmers of the Year, will be hosting a woodland owners field day at their Dunn and Barron County tree farms this Saturday.