Hope Center provides hot meals

The chef at the Salvation Army Hope Center in Stevens Point prepares free hot meals to go..Submitted Photo

Three meals per day offered in Stevens Point

Felony cases prosecuted in 2024

Crime in local communities

Waupaca 2024 highlights

Waupaca County Sheriff Tim Wilz presents a life-saving medal to Deputy Steven Long in January 2024.

Remembering a year of controversies, business openings. local people

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Don and Connie Laughlin are the Shamrock Club of New Dublin’s 2025 Irish Man and Irish Rose.
John Faucher photo.

Don and Connie Laughlin as Irish Man and Irish Rose

NEW DUBLIN – Spirits are bubblin’ in New Dublin once again. As sure as the signs of spring surround us, the Shamrock Club of New Dublin welcomes the start of a weeklong St. Pat’s in …

Foundation awards $13,350 in grants

CLINTONVILLE – The Clintonville Area Foundation (CAF) recently awarded $13,350 in grants to 10 charitable organizations serving the Clintonville area. The grants, benefitting a range of …

The Grand National Lounge has two new owners, (l to r) Kelly Atkins and Jenn Beland, both are bartenders that work at the establishment they now own.
Emily Doud Photo

New owners at Grand National

WAUPACA – Built on the corner of South Main Street and East Union Street in 1890, the Old First National Bank building has become an iconic downtown landmark, with its recent sale two new …

Sam Woolsey shows the award he received in September for his volunteer work to install septic system mounds on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. Woolsey received the award at a national convention in Las Vegas, Nevada..Greg Seubert Photo

Waupaca plumber helps Navajo Nation

WAUPACA - It turned out to be an opportunity that Sam Woolsey couldn’t pass up. Woolsey runs the family business, Woolsey Plumbing & Heating Inc., in Waupaca with his father, Bill, and …

New Dublin’s 2025 Irish events

• Monday, March 17 – Leprechaun Day • Leprechauns change the name of the town to New Dublin for the week, entertain kids, visit the elderly and appear at various businesses. • …

Little Wolf River Outfitters in downtown Manawa now offers taxidermy for fish, with the option of either a skin mount or replica.
Emily Doud Photo

Fish mounts offered at sport shop

MANAWA – Little Wolf River Outfitters located in downtown Manawa has recently started offering the service of fish taxidermy for customers. Rick Zemple, owner of Little Wolf River Outfitters, …

Iola’s village-wide bar fight

IOLA – The Iola Village Board Police Committee met March 4 to follow up on claims from local bar owners that the Iola Police Department is targeting their bars. The issue of police targeting …

State Representative Elijah Behnke hosted a listening session at the Town of Mattson Community Center on March 8.
Bert Lehman Photo

Behnke listens to voters

CLINTONVILLE – Citizens expressed concerns about funding for long-term care for citizens with special needs at the listening session held by State Representative Elijah Behnke. It was held at …

Board approves special committee

NEW LONDON – The New London Board of Education approved the creation of a special committee on student achievement and growth when it met Feb. 12. Board member Mark Grossman voted against …

Calling 911

March 3 – A Clintonville woman on Old CC reported a juvenile was calling people names and grabbing people in appropriately. The dispatcher heard the juvenile call someone a whore and say, …

New London council cautious over Fed cuts

NEW LONDON – The New London Common Council unanimously approved a grant agreement for the state of Wisconsin Flexible Facilities Program despite it including language indicating the $3.9 …

Two run for Iola village president

IOLA – Iola residents will be headed to the polls April 1 to vote for the Iola Village President, the only seat on the board that was challenged during the January caucus. The two candidates …

Students at St. Paul Lutheran School collected a total of 923 boxes of cereal to support a local food pantry.
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Cereal numbers

STEVENS POINT – Students at St. Paul Lutheran School spent the month of February collected a total of 923 boxes of cereal to support a local food pantry, easily beating their goal of 600 boxes. …

Cindy Schamber and, her daughter, Alyiah Weed are two of the new owners at Iola Coffee Co. in Iola.
Emily Doud Photo

New coffee shop opens in Iola

IOLA – The former Sweet Medicine Pharmacy on Main Street in Iola has been transformed into the village’s brand new coffee shop. The building was purchased last March by Cindy Schamber and …

Former Waupaca High School athletic director Carl Eggebrecht (left) and retired Reedsburg Area High School athletic director Bryan Yager were inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame in November at the organization’s annual conference in Wisconsin Dells.
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EAGLE RIVER - Carl Eggebrecht had no idea what to expect when he and his family moved to Waupaca 40 years ago. He had spent the previous eight years as a social studies teacher and football, baseball …