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The Chronotype to move offices to new Rice Lake location

The (Rice Lake) Chronotype will move to a new location at the end of January, leaving its home of more than 60 years, the newspaper announced Wednesday.

The building at 28 S. Main St., which was not included in the August 2014 sale to Adams Publishing Group, was recently sold by the newspaper’s former owners.

olivia herken

Your Right to Know: Remote meeting access not ideal

While livestreaming meetings has become the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials need to do a better job of making sure no one — and no meeting — slips through the technological cracks.

In the most recent installment of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council’s Your Right to Know column, La Crosse Tribune reporter Olivia Herken offers local lawmakers some suggestions.

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Can you hear me now?

Lately I’ve had a difficult time hearing, and I’m not referring to selective hearing, the condition that occurs in many marriages.

Jim O'Rourke

O’Rourke Media Group buys RiverTown newspapers

The Chicago-based O’Rourke Media Group has purchased RiverTown Multimedia from Forum Communications.

RiverTown publishes two newspapers, the Republican Eagle in Red Wing, Minn., and the (Hudson) Star-Observer. RiverTown previously published eight newspapers — four in Minnesota and four in Wisconsin — before merging several publications in 2019 and closing two newspapers this year in part due to the pandemic. The sale was effective Jan. 1.

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