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Minocqua Farmers Market Opens for the Season
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Submitted: 05/24/2013 |
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MINOCQUA - Many of us have been waiting for home-grown fruits and vegetables.
Now they're here at a Northwoods summer market.
It's opening day for the Minocqua Farmers Market.
15 vendors filled the Minocqua Park Complex on Highway 70.
They have vegetable plants, flowers, baked goods and MORE available for purchase.
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Fire Burns Rhinelander Apartment Building
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Submitted: 05/24/2013 |
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RHINELANDER - People jumped from a second story window to escape an early morning fire in Rhinelander.
Just after two this morning, the Rhinelander fire department rushed to 254 Westhill Road.
Half of a four unit apartment building was already in flames when they got there.
Five people living in the building had already gotten out.
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Schofield company planning up to 350 new jobs in Central Wisconsin
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Submitted: 05/24/2013 |
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SCHOFIELD - A Schofield company is planning to expand in central Wisconsin and add several hundred manufacturing jobs over the next few years.
Crystal Finishing Systems has purchased a shuttered manufacturing plant in Mosinee for an undisclosed price. Crystal Finishing President Mark Matthiae says his company will add about 250 to 350 jobs in the next three years. Jobs will range in pay from $10.50 to $25 an hour.
Matthiae says the average annual wage for his employees is $38,700.
The company expects to finalize plans for the Mosinee plant in July. Production should get underway in 2014.
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Panel Blocks Change to Rent-to-Own Rules
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Submitted: 05/24/2013 |
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MADISON - Consumers will still be told how much interest they will pay at a rent-to-own businesses in Wisconsin.
The Legislature's finance committee has blocked Republican Governor Scott Walker's plan to exempt rent-to-own businesses.
A handful of Republicans, including Senate President Mike Ellis, have been pushing the committee to remove the proposal from the budget.
The committee voted 10-6 yesterday to eliminate the plan.
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Marketplace Day makes entrepreneurs of grade schoolers
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Submitted: 05/23/2013 |
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HARSHAW - A marketplace might make you think of a city square or a grocery store.
But what about a grade school?
The Northwoods Community Elementary School hosted Marketplace Day Thursday for friends, family, and community members.
Kindergarteners through fifth graders sold flower pots, lemonade, and artwork.
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Northwoods Magazine Reaches 35,000 Readers
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Submitted: 05/23/2013 |
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PRESQUE ISLE - You can find a magazine for almost any hobby, interest or passion.
If your passion is the great state of Wisconsin (and whose isn't?), there's now a magazine for that, too.
"Our Wisconsin" is a magazine that's more of a friendly conversation between neighbors.
It features photos and stories from around the state.
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Walleye Plan Excites Local Fishermen
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Submitted: 05/23/2013 |
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EAGLE RIVER - The initiative will help to rebound what's thought of as a suffering walleye population by adding hundreds of thousands of the fish to Wisconsin lakes.
The project could improve fishing for the state's most popular game fish and tourism in the state. George Langely, a local fishing guide at Eagle Sports bait shop in Eagle River, says walleye fishing isn't what it used to be.
"The walleye population has pretty much suffered in the last twenty years and it's really nice to see Madison recognizing that and taking some steps to do something about it. It will take a while but it's a great start."
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