RHINELANDER - The Rhinelander library wants ideas from architects on how to give it some elbow room.
A state study says that with just 15-thousand square feet, the library is much too small for a city of Rhinelander's size.
"We're 10,000 square feet of where we should be for the community we serve, according to that analysis," says Library Director Ed Hughes.
With expansion in the works, the library is looking for architects to design what a new section would look like.
Hughes says the skills needed for a library architect are much different from a residential or commercial architect.
They must consider special factors, like the weight of thousands of books.
"We want to see who you are as an architect, and then pick some people, amongst those who we send this out to, to invite in for an interview," says Hughes.
Hughes hopes to receive applications by mid-January.
MINOCQUA - These plants may look pretty but they're taking over our rivers and lakes. Michele Sadauskas is Oneida County's Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator. She is working to map and control the yellow iris, the plant you see here. She and two other conservation workers spent the day weeding Stacks Bay.
"They invade our wetlands. They're a really robust, aggressive plant. What they do is they crowd out our native species and make actually the wetland a lot less diverse," says Michele Sadauskas, Oneida County AIS Coordinator.
Removing yellow iris is a slow process. It takes three hours of work just to properly map and control 20 feet of shoreline.
TOMAHAWK - Workers at Daigle Brothers in Tomahawk can build almost anything out of steel. Most of their business is creating custom parts and putting up buildings, but more recently, they've been building a new invention.
Daigle Brothers began in 1987. Back then they did a lot of construction related jobs like painting. Later they focused on steel construction.
"In the 90's we did a lot of school buildings, there was a lot of schools being built, so we supplied structural steel for these building projects... Currently our biggest markets are universities, hospitals, office buildings... we do a lot of fire stations," said Steve Daigle President of Daigle Brothers Inc.
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