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ANTIGO - Businesses and groups in Antigo will spend hours drawing, planning, and stacking cans of food this week.
The city hopes to surpass last year's total of more than six tons of food donated to the Antigo Community Food Pantry.
The Pinnacle Team of Thrivent Financial and the pantry started the Canstruction contest in 2013.
This year, 17 businesses and organizations will build structures out of cans and items needed by the pantry.
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MADISON - House Speaker Paul Ryan says he does not want to "shovel more money at a failing program" to replace federal subsidies that President Donald Trump is eliminating that help make health insurance more affordable.
Ryan told reporters Monday that he supports the president's decision last week to end the subsidies. In Ryan's home state of Wisconsin the loss of the subsidies is projected to result in premiums increasing 36 percent for the average insurance plan sold through the federal exchange.
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WAUSAU - On Monday night, Wausau's Public Health and Safety Committee put two entrepreneurs another step closer to starting a new kind of business in the city.
Ashley Sampson and Dan Dadabo want to start a commercial quadricycle business, better known as a pedal pub.
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WHITE LAKE - More than 60 percent of students in White Lake schools come from families with financial challenges, letting those students qualify for free or reduced-cost meals at school.
But the district views that as just a number.
"We just see kids. We don't see whether they have needs or not. We just see kids, and we do the best we can to meet whatever needs they come with on a daily basis," said White Lake K-12 Principal Glenda Boldig.
Boldig's mission is helped by a motivated community volunteer, Sally Mulhollon.
"I know what it was like to be without," said Mulhollon.
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KRONENWETTER - A near-perfect sunny day provided the perfect backdrop for the latest addition outside Ryan Wiechmann's school.
"Oh, it's monstrous!" Wiechmann said.
A towering array of solar panels shimmered in the sun over Wiechmann's shoulder at Northland Lutheran High School in Kronenwetter. Monday, the school and family members celebrated the addition to Wisconsin Public Service's SolarWise for Schools program.
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MINOCQUA - For one Saturday in October, the cafeteria at Lakeland Union High School is transformed.
Instead of a place to feed teenagers, it becomes a place to package meals for thousands of people all around the world.
"It is just phenomenal to watch," said Susie Breiten.
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ANTIGO - Our ancestors used small-batch botanical medicine when they had a health problem.
That tradition is still carried on in Antigo.
Mortar and Pestle opened its doors one week ago.
Owner Kelly Keyser-Millar has been making batches of her botanical medicine and selling it online since last November.
The storefront allows her to make custom medicine based on people's needs in combination with the prescriptions they may already be taking.
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