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Domestic violence murder rates are at an all time high, but advocates are concerned they may not be able to keep providing the services communities depend on due to major funding issues.
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In the fall of 1895, a team from the University of Wisconsin school of agriculture, including Dean William A. Henry, Madison photographer Harvey J. Perkins, and others, traveled to every county north of a line drawn from Green Bay to Hudson. They compiled information and photographs from cutover lands, and already existing farms, in an attempt to showcase the potential of the area.All this work was put into a 200 page booklet titled “Northern Wisconsin: A Handbook for the Home Seeker”.
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Thriving art scenes help build thriving communities.It’s one of the driving concepts behind ArtStart and why the organization has been working so hard for several years to build an accessible, outdoor art space.That vision is becoming a reality thanks in part to a $42,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
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An outdoor art installation in Land O’Lakes invites people to immerse themselves in music, visual arts, and nature.The sound garden created by director and composer JG Everest has returned for another year.As part of WXPR’s We Live Up Here, Katie Thoresen explains how this community art project encourages everyone to be an artist.
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An outdoor art installation in Land O’Lakes invites people to immerse themselves in music, visual arts, and nature.The sound garden created by director and composer JG Everest has returned for another year.As part of WXPR’s We Live Up Here, Katie Thoresen explains how this community art project encourages everyone to be an artist.
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“You never know what you’re going to dig up under the street around here or anywhere else for that matter,” said Kerry Bloedorn, Pioneer Park Historical Complex Director.
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Land O’Lakes is looking forward to a summer filled with art and music.Land O’Lakes Arts, or LOLA, wants to make arts as accessible as possible to its community.
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The Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport has been fielding planes at its current location just west of Rhinelander since the early 40s. But Rhinelander’s aeronautical history goes all the way back to a flight that occurred in 1912.
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One day in 1986, dubbed Black Tuesday, went down in History as the most wildland fires fought in a single day in Northern Wisconsin. By the end of that Tuesday, 64 fires would burn hundreds of acres.
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Michigan researchers say they have found the wreckage of two ships that disappeared into Lake Superior in 1914 and hope the discovery will lead to a third vessel that sank at the same time.
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Rivers and Lakes are beginning to open up in the Northwoods. During the logging boom in Northern Wisconsin, that meant it was time to start the river drive. Moving tens of thousands of logs by water to sawmill towns was a deadly business. And so it was on the first log drive north of Grandfather Falls on the Wisconsin River, 165 years ago.
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It’s officially Spring even if the weather hasn’t quite caught up to that fact yet.To celebrate winter’s end, the Forest County Potawatomi Community is inviting people to join in its upcoming powwow.