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WEBThe City of Rhinelander will be planting hundreds of more trees in the next few years. Trees are important for cities to help improve air quality, lower cooling costs for homes, and improve overall quality of life.The City of Rhinelander has lost more trees than it’s planted over the years, especially in lower-income areas.
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WEB3 days ago · Ordinances related to wake boats appear in several Northwoods communities. WAOW Television Jimmy Sadowski. , September 20, 2024. Several places around Northern Central Wisconsin have adopted wake boat ordinances including Newbold, Presque Isle and Lake Tomahawk. They do not ban wake boats, but ballast tanks on them.
The Ghost Plant - Indian Pipe - WXPR
WEBOct 13, 2020 · Specters of Halloweens past. Indian pipe, or Monotropa uniflora, are white because they have no chlorophyll and so cannot photosynthesize. Because they can’t photosynthesize, they cannot make their own sugar. They need sugar, along with nutrients usually gathered by the roots, to make all the compounds they need to grow and reproduce.
November 8th Election: What’s on the ballot, where to vote
WEBOct 26, 2022 · It can take longer if your mailing address is outside of Wisconsin. Election Day is Tuesday, November 8th. Polls are open 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Katie Thoresen is WXPR's News Director/Vice President. Major races on the ballot include Governor, U.S. Senate, as well as your local state representatives and some school referendums.
Bicyclist killed in Minocqua accident - WXPR
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Facebook. A woman died when her bicycle collided with a vehicle in Minocqua Tuesday afternoon. Minocqua Police say they responded to a vehicle verses bicycle crash just south of the intersection of US HWY 51 South and Timber Ridge Road around 1:00 p.m. The bicyclist, 71 -year-old Susan Lynn Kass of Oconomowoc, WI, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Aftermath of Tribe Termination - WXPR
WEBFeb 17, 2021 · The Indian Termination Act of the 1950s was a misguided attempt to alleviate economic hardship on Reservations by terminating tribal sovereignty and relocating Native peoples to urban areas where they could find work and be assimilated. The act had a significant impact on Wisconsin’s Menominee Tribe. It also led to the founding of the ...
In the 1920's, Elcho Was an English Tudor Village - WXPR
WEBJun 12, 2019 · In the 1920's, Elcho Was an English Tudor Village. Exterior view of the Muskie Inn in Langlade County on a postcard. In 1923, a fire in Elcho resulted in a dramatic shift for the way the Langlade County town looked. Gary Entz has the story for this week's A Northwoods Moment in History. Most Northwoods communities have undergone numerous ...
Hazelhurst and the Yawkey Lumber Company - WXPR
WEBJul 21, 2021 · Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey was a nephew of Michigan lumbering tycoon William Clyman Yawkey and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, where he learned the trade. In 1888, William, Cyrus, and George E. Lee acquired a sizeable tract of land around Lake Katherine and started the sawmill village of Hazelhurst. The three men organized the Yawkey and Lee Lumber ...
10 guards, 900 inmates: Wisconsin prisons see dire results of
WEBFeb 5, 2024 · This story was originally published by The New York Times and Wisconsin Watch.. The reporters examined staffing and payroll data and interviewed dozens of guards and inmates for this article, which is part of a series about the Wisconsin Department of Corrections by The New York Times’ Local Investigations Fellowship. Wisconsin’s top prison official wrote to the governor in 2015 with a ...