WAUSAU - For the 4th straight year, the Newman Catholic Fighting Cardinals will play at the state girls basketball tournament.
Newman rolled over Hilbert in Saturday's Section Final. Their talented roster includes two juniors whose sisters played on the 2011 Championship team.
Abigail Connolly and Madison Tubbs.
Their sisters were Sarah and Megan Connolly and Lauren Tubbs. 2011 proved to be the second straight title for Newman. It also is a benchmark for this year's team.
Both Connolly and Tubbs were freshmen on that championship team. They remember the magic like it was yesterday.
This year's tourney is in Green Bay. Newman Catholic faces WI Rapids Assumption in the D-5 semifinals Thursday afternoon. Assumption is ranked 2nd in the state. The two teams from the Marawood Conference's South divsion spilt the series. By the way, Assumption won the conference title this year.
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.
MERRILL - Farmers in Lincoln and Langlade Counties may need to make a longer drive or call a different office for USDA services.
The Merrill Service Center will be temporarily split up between Rhinelander, Wausau, and Medford.
The Farm Service Agency will move to the Wausau Service Center and the Natural Resources Conservation Service will be relocated to the Rhinelander and Medford Centers.
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