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RHINELANDER - Volunteers started preparations Monday for the Oneida County Fair.
About 50 people helped set up.
A lot of work was completed ahead of schedule thanks to volunteers.
Fair leaders think most of the setup will be done Monday.
"We're hoping to be done pretty much today with the initial setup," says Fair Coordinator Nancy Gehrig. "K&M Amusement is already setting up today, which normally they aren't setting up until Tuesday. So yeah, we're ahead of the game already."
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APPLETON - More Wisconsin school districts have begun to take advantage of a change in state law allowing them to borrow money to help fund energy efficient projects.
The Appleton Post-Crescent reports (http://post.cr/1plXwIE ) 55 districts raised more than $23 million without having to ask voters to approve a referendum. The amount raised has nearly tripled since the previous year.
The two-year-old law allows schools to borrow money for energy conservation projects over multiple years in a way that diffuses costs to taxpayers.
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MERRILL - Police need your help finding the driver of car involved in a hit and run accident over the weekend.
It happened around 3:30 in the morning on Saturday in the town of Merrill.
No one was hurt in the crash.
The victim was driving east on Hillside Drive, just west of County Rd K.
That's when a small silver car sideswiped the victim's dark blue Dodge Avenger.
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WAUKESHA - The former majority leader of the Wisconsin Assembly will go on trial in October for sexual assault.
State Representative Bill Kramer is accused of shoving a woman into a car, groping her and making inappropriate comments.
The charges date back to a GOP event in April 2011.
During a hearing Friday, a Waukesha County Circuit Judge set a jury trial for October 28th.
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OSHKOSH - Aviation enthusiasts from as many as 70 countries will gather in Oshkosh this week for the annual Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture.
The convention draws about a half million people to the weeklong event near Wittman Regional Airport.
Thousands of planes have already landed at the airport.
On Monday, NASA representatives will talk about their plan to take people to Mars starting in 2030.
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LAKE TOMAHAWK - Two things unite a special group of 24 of our nation's heroes - traumatic injury and softball. The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team is made up of veterans and active duty servicemen who served in the Global War on Terrorism.
"I thought the world was over. And I thought there was no way in the world I'd ever do anything again," Army veteran and Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball player Rick Wilk said of losing his leg.
Wilk came home safely from two deployments only to lose his leg below the knee to a drunk driver in 2010. Within a year of losing his leg, Wilk was up and running, literally. Now, three years after losing his leg, he plays softball better than most people with all their limbs.
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MINOCQUA - It can take years to restore an old wooden boat. But some wooden boat owners are willing to put that time in because the finished product can teach people about antique boats.
People got the chance to show off their boats at 22nd annual Antique Wooden Boat Show in Minocqua this weekend.
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