There’s a new effort to get a status upgrade for a pair of scenic trails through Wisconsin. Mike Wollmer, Executive Director of the Ice Age Trail Alliance, says without unit status, the North Country and Ice Age trails are excluded from many opportunities and assistance accorded the other trails in the system. “The exposure, in terms of being able to have interpretive signage consistent with National Park Service standards along the trail. Being able to go the National Parks Service website and easily identifying the Ice Age trail as an asset on the national level,” are among those benefits, he says. [Read more...]
Trial underway in Rock County murder
May 4, 2010 By
The trial of a 36-year-old Beloit man, accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in a jealous rage, got underway Tuesday in Rock County court.
Beloit Police Officer Richard Lefeber was the first officer on the scene the night of the murder in August of 2008. He testified that the suspect, Donyil Anderson, came at him with a knife in his hand. [Read more...]
Keeping an eye on seafood prices
May 4, 2010 By
Will the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico mean higher seafood prices in Wisconsin this summer? Grocers and wholesalers are keeping a close eye on the situation. Wisconsin Grocers Association President Brand Scholz says the answer to that question is not necessarily, or at least not right away.
“This is obviously a very big story in the news,” Scholz says. “But in reality, how much of that product from the Gulf is coming into Wisconsin? A good portion of it is sold regionally in that area.” Still, Scholz doesn’t rule out eventual impacts on consumers in Wisconsin, despite their distance from the Gulf, especially if the situation continues to worsen. [Read more...]
Talk to kids about substance abuse, early and often
May 4, 2010 By
Parents are urged to talk to their kids about substance abuse, before proms and graduations draw near.
And not just their teenagers. Kids get exposed to drugs, alcohol and all kinds of things at a lot younger age than parents might think. “And so in middle school when you think of sixth graders, who are usually about 11 years old, through eighth graders, who are about 13 years of age, that they can definitely be exposed to things things.” [Read more...]
Marquette recruiting class grows
May 4, 2010 By
The Marquette men’s basketball team has signed 6’8, 295 pounder Davante Gardner from King’s Fork High School in Suffolk, Virginia to a national letter of intent.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Gardner averaged 22.2 points, 12.2 rebounds and 2.1 blocked shots as a senior at King’s Fork this past season.
Gardner’s signing increases Marquette’s class to six players, leaving the team one over the NCAA-mandated scholarship limit of 13. The Journal Sentinel story said one of the six will attend a prep school next season.
