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Hope for Ken Durst unhampered by rain

As the June 10 thunderstom calmed to waves of light to heavy rain, (l-r) Nicki Beckly, Melinda Durst, Jim Durst, Jim Shaw and Emma Schultz (the Durst’ granddaughter) show off the chart used to accept the 100 entries for the rifle raffle, which Ken won, to everyone’s surprise. 

Hundreds of people passed through the Silver Dome Too June 10 to support Ken Durst at his benefit. As the Make-A-Wish convoy came to a close and a thunderstorm came in to bring in the spring’s much-needed rain, many people were already gathered in the outdoor bar area and inside the SpeakEasy. Ken...
Workshop in Owen helps local business owners revitalize their downtowns

Guest speaker Joe Lawniczak explains the process of razing a neglected downtown building in the June 7 session of the WCWRPC renovation workshop.

The West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission’s (WCWRPC) renovation workshop, in partnership with the Regional Business Fund (RFB), spanned June 7 and 8 at the Friends of the Old Owen Schoolhouse in Owen. The workshop kicked off with the Downtown Building Readiness Assessment, WCWRPC This...
NHS bids farewell to another class of seniors

Craig Anderson-Ruskin (right), Neillsville High School principal, delivers his opening remarks during the May 27 graduation of the 2023 senior class.

May 27, the Neillsville High School and community watched another class of senior Warriors don their school colors for the final time as students. The Warriors walked two-by-two or three-by-three to their seats as seniors and not even an hour later left them as adults to take what they had learned...
Crash report involving Fannie’s released

Tyler Wesson’s Silverado crashed into Fannies Supper Club and Motel early May 27, damaging the building and even the trees in front of it.

June 6, the Clark County Sheriff’s office released the accident report at Fannies Supper Club and Motel, W3741 CTH 10, Neillsville. May 27, at 5:08 a.m., hours before Neillsville students walked across the graduation stage, a truck crash was reported at Fannies. At 5:20 a.m., Deputy J. King arrived...
Optimist Club shines light on outstanding sheriff department employee

(L-r) Jim (of the Neillsville Optimist Club) and Mary Kay Mills speak about Heather Murphy before presenting her with the Respect for Law Award.

May 17th, the Clark County Sheriff’s Department, The Highground Veterans Memorial and the Optimist Club of Neillsville honored a member of the Clark County Community with the Respect for Law Award: Heather Murphy. After a late lunch surrounded by family, friends and brethren/sistren in the...
Hidden in the haze
The moon hangs over Clark County late Sunday night, covered by a mixed haze of the dust kicked up from farmers sowing their crops and haze from the wildfires drifting from Quebec, Canada, the latter having sparked air quality alerts as Quebec fire authorities admit their inability to control the...
Honor Flight provides the welcome home some vets never got

Charlotte Johnson (Ronald Jakobi’s daughter, not pictured) and Rita Jakobi (Kenneth Jakobi’s wife, not pictured) wait in a special area outside the airport terminal for their veterans to arrive and disembark from the plane, where they would reunite and walk down a crowd of supporters welcoming the veterans home.

Vietnam changed many ways America fights its wars. From training soldiers to focusing on taking out their target with a single shot to make them more efficient, inadvertently making the act of fighting a war much more personal and increasing the amount of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (formerly...
Memories flying in Neillsville
Banners honoring veterans were hung May 25 along downtown Neillsville by city workers like Dale Zank, who hangs the banner of his father, Frank Zank.
Deacon Alex Kren, 34, of St. Mary’s Parish of Neillsville, his home parish where he grew up attending, will be ordained into a priest by the end of June. In Kren’s early adult life, he went through some life challenges, experiencing pain and suffering for many years, making him fall away from the...
In a May 19 article written by Matt McGregor, the Epoch Times shined a light on the recent struggle between Farmland First, a group “highly concerned with the predatory tactics used by industrial wind companies in order to coerce landowners to sign away their property rights in the name of green...

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