Living in the country without the municipal services provided to our urban friends can be a blessing or a curse. Recently, we encountered a mysterious issue with our water well.
The (Rice Lake) Chronotype last month announced three new additions to its newspaper staff — two in sales and one in the sports department.
Deb Fosberg-Wheeler, who previously worked in the Spooner Advocate advertising department, will serve as an advertising sales specialist. Jill Johnston, a Minnesota native who graduated from UW-Stout in 2014, will work as a regional sales and promotions specialist for parent company Adams Publishing Group. And Travis Nyhus will serve as a general reporter and sports editor, coming to The Chronotype after stints at The Chippewa Herald and the (Menomonie) Dunn County News.
Wisconsin citizens are getting the can handle the truth, Christa Westerberg writes, and they deserve to know the names of businesses and other establishments with COVID-19 outbreaks.
Beginning with Thursday’s issue, subscribers to Buffalo County’s three weeklies will receive a newly merged newspaper, the Buffalo County News.
The newspapers last week announced the (Alma) Buffalo County Journal, Mondovi Herald-News and Cochrane-Fountain City Recorder would be merged to form one newspaper serving the entire county. All three newspapers shared the same parent company, Media One.
Nearly four decades after she started at the newspaper, Antigo Daily Journal editor Lisa Haefs announced her retirement Friday.
Haefs started at the Daily Journal in October 1983 as a general assignment reporter and society editor. She also covered the Antigo school board and city council.
Gov. Tony Evers’ decision to issue a statewide mask mandate could set up another legal bill over the extent of his powers to combat COVID-19. But it would be with different plaintiffs and a different composition on the state Supreme Court.
One time while performing with my wife, our song truly touched an elderly man’s heart. And my dear friend, that’s the power and the magic of singing.
A headline can make or break an ad. It’s important to look for connections between what the audience needs and how the advertiser can meet those needs.
Veteran sales trainer John Foust gives suggestions for doing just that in his latest installment of “Ad Libs.”
Potentially hundreds of laid-off Wisconsin workers with disabilities are now eligible for federal aid that other unemployed workers have received during the pandemic.
An editorial by the Vilas County News Review (which is available for republication by WNA members) asks the entire Wisconsin delegation to co-sponsor the Local Journalism Sustainability Act.
“Never has America’s free press been more threatened by economic insolvency, a development that could eliminate the work of local journalists who provide in-depth perspectives that inform their readership regarding important current events,” the editorial board writes.
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