Spend a day in Wisconsin’s Capital City
Jun. 16, 2025
Whether you’re a first-time visitor or a longtime Wisconsinite, here’s how to spend a day soaking up all that this capital city has to offer.
Whether you’re a first-time visitor or a longtime Wisconsinite, here’s how to spend a day soaking up all that this capital city has to offer.
Dr. Jerrel W. Jones, founder and CEO of Courier Communications, and a prominent figure in Wisconsin’s media landscape, and the first Black man in America to concurrently own a radio station and newspaper, died June 4 at age 85, according to a June 11, 2025 story about Jones in the Milwaukee Community Journal.
Nearly 40 people were in attendance at the June 10 Hazelhurst town board meeting, but about half of them left at the start of the meeting when town chairman Ted Cushing announced there would be no discussion or action on the “wake board” agenda item due to a spelling error.
In an action brought by The Lakeland Times and publisher Gregg Walker, an Oneida County circuit judge who previously found that two Lake Tomahawk officials attended a meeting that was in violation of the state’s open meetings law has imposed no forfeitures and will require only one of the officials to take any training.
The Pecatonica Valley Leader recently celebrated its 25th anniversary of printing its first edition on June 8, 2000, according to a June 12 story in the Pecatonica Valley Leader in Argyle.
Cap Times publisher Paul Fanlund shared his own journalism history and the history of The Cap Times with more than 60 seniors at the Middleton Senior Center, according to a June 12, 2025 article in the Middleton Times-Tribune.
After more than 16 years working at the Valders Journal, Todd Bergmann has gone into semi-retirement.
Wisconsin Watch and Simpson Street Free Press were among the recipients of Evjue Foundation grants announced by The Cap Times on June 11, 2025.
We found the Lake Brantley graduation experience at the University of Central Florida illuminating, inspiring and a sharp counterpoint to the negative narrative about kids.
On June 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an order that grants a stay of the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) orders pending appeal arguments of the CIT case in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump, according to Holly Lubart, Vice President of Government Affairs for News/Media Alliance.
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