Students across Wisconsin: Start drawing and writing about the First Amendment. Teachers and parents: Please encourage them. The Wisconsin Newspaper Association, through its foundation, is seeking opinion columns and cartoons from middle- and high-schoolers this month as part of its second annual contest promoting civic education and engagement. With our nation increasingly divided and often

The bird-killing, free-roaming, pretty calico-tabby cat, who was fed by a neighbor out of pity, survived last winter. Last evening, she walked up my street, followed by two of her nearly mature young. This winter, there’ll be at least three cats who need feeding to survive, because there’s at least one more in the neighborhood. They could probably be live-trapped, especially if they begin starving.

GreenLight Metals, a Canadian mining company doing business as GreenLight Wisconsin, is hoping to begin exploratory drilling at the Bend deposit after the ground freezes in November. The Bend, located about 20 miles northwest of Medford, contains about 4 million tons of mostly copper and gold. GreenLight has filed a Notice of Intent to Drill with the DNR. The plans laid out in the notice of intent