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Gas Prices Hurt Job Hunters
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Submitted: 05/28/2008 |
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RHINELANDER - With the state of the economy, jobs can be difficult to come by, but one area business is finding the pain at the pump affects more than just your wallet.
Gas prices at a statewide average of $4.02 per gallon, have people thinking twice about accepting a job with a long commute.
Sandy Edington is the manager of Nicolet Staffing in Rhinelander. She says this month has been especially bad.
Edington says the lack of people wanting to take a job out of town is negatively affecting the relationship Nicolet Staffing has with its clients.
People don't want to drive a long distance to work, so Edington says job hunters are more interested in positions closer to home. She tells Newswatch 12, "People who had been driving to the paper mill in Tomahawk for instance are now wanting to see if we can get them into the paper mill here in Rhinelander, or is there something they would be suited for in this area."
Nicolet Staffing assisted 1,500 job hunters this year, and just today Edington says three people turned down job offers due to the high cost of gas.
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Record High Turnout Expected in Wisconsin Primary
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Submitted: 09/02/2010 |
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MADISON - A record-high 28 percent turnout is predicted for Wisconsin's primary on Sept. 14.
State elections officials made the estimate on Thursday, citing highly contested statewide races for governor as well as local legislative and congressional contests.
Government Accountability Board Director Kevin Kennedy says there appears to be tremendous interest in this election.
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Fire Destroys Local Garage
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Submitted: 09/01/2010 |
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TOWN OF CONOVER - Fire destroys a garage in Vilas County.
It happened in the Town of Conover at 3551 North Country Lane.
The Conover Volunteer Fire Department responded to the call around four Wednesday afternoon after the owner noticed fire around his feet while welding in the garage and called 911.
When firefighters arrived the garage was fully engulfed.
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Veteran Reacts to Staff Sgt. West's Death
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Submitted: 09/01/2010 |
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TOWN OF CONOVER - A local veteran says he feels West's family's pain.
Harold Kressin of Conover is an Army veteran.
Kressin says it's hard to hear about soldiers losing their lives overseas, and it's especially hard when they're from your community.
Harold Kressin, Army Veteran, says, "Everytime a man gets killed or a woman gets killed in service, it's just heart-breaking to me, I cry. Because these people are not going to have the freedoms that we have."
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Conover Soldier Killed
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Submitted: 09/01/2010 |
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- The Defense Department says a soldier who lived in Conover, was killed in Afghanistan on Monday.
36-year-old Staff Sgt. Matthew West was one of five Fort Carson soldiers killed when their unit was attacked with an improvised bomb.
West's sister, Kristine Willis, tells the Traverse City Record-Eagle that her brother was a 1992 graduate of Gaylord High
School in Michigan.
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Summer Tourism Wrap Up
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Submitted: 09/01/2010 |
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- Labor Day marks the unofficial end to summer and the wrap up of the summer tourism season.
With the holiday, just a few days away, Newswatch 12 looks at how the Northwoods economy fared this year.
Newswatch 12 spent Wednesday in Minocqua speaking with resort owners and the Minocqua Arbor Vitae Woodruff Area Chamber of Commerce, otherwise known as MAVWACC.
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