
Ad celebrates Reilly’s 80th birthday
An ad in the April 3, 2025 issue of The Dodgeville Chronicle celebrated WNA Foundation Board of Directors member Pat Reilly’s 80th birthday, which occurred on April 4.
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An ad in the April 3, 2025 issue of The Dodgeville Chronicle celebrated WNA Foundation Board of Directors member Pat Reilly’s 80th birthday, which occurred on April 4.

After he was “flung into the deep end of the nation’s labor pool with the recent corporate cost-cutting elimination of my downstate reporting job after 37 months and a dozen professional awards,” Eric Johnson is still writing for the Vilas County News-Review and the Three Lakes News in Eagle River.
Kurt Krueger published his final “In The Outdoors” column in the Vilas County News-Review and The Three Lakes News on March 26, 2025 — 40 years after he wrote his first one in March, 1985.

Former Eau Claire Leader-Telegram writer Dave Carlson will be inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame in an April 5 ceremony, according to a March 24 story appearing in the Antigo Daily Journal.

In its March 20, 2025 issue, The Star News of Medford celebrated its 150th anniversary with a multiple-page story containing a lengthy newspaper history as well as current staff and historical photos.

TP Printing Company President, The Star News publisher and WNA immediate past president Kris O’Leary is a member of the Abbotsford-Colby Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

On Feb. 24, the Lake Geneva City Council unanimously approved Mayor Todd Krause’s appointment of former Lake Geneva Regional News general manager John Halverson to the Historic Preservation Commission.

Longtime local journalist Heather Schaefer is the new editor of the Northwoods Star Journal, beginning with the March 12, 2025 issue.

Kat Halfman recently joined the Kewaunee County Star-News as its new editor.

Cole Amundson recently joined Adams Publishing Group’s Southern Wisconsin Hometown News group as a new sports reporter, covering local sports in DeForest, Waunakee, Poynette, Lodi and the surrounding areas.