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What color is it? What color is it?
I’ll be the first to admit, I love cookbooks, of any kind. In fact, I recently couldn’t pass up a dragon food cookbook, that I picked up at a school book fair. It’s filled with fun recipes of...
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Support Small Businesses This Holiday Season

This holiday season, will you shop at one of the 33.2 million small businesses, that make up 99 percent of all businesses in the U.S? Up and down rural main streets in America, shopkeepers are readying their stores for the season. Business owners are stocking special gifts and rolls of wrapping paper, to provide added value, when you spend your money with a local retailer. Independently-owne...

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Take time to reflect and give thanks

The story is an old one. Like many old stories, it is one that gains value with its retelling. It is the story of settlers, yearning to live free and coming to a new land. It is a story of overcoming adversity, hardship and hostility. It is the story of friendship, and sharing knowledge and support. It is the story of a bountiful harvest, and of setting aside differences in clothing and cust...

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And then, there was the cheese
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And then, there was the cheese

After a solid month of finding pieces of curly fries and crumbs of curly fries, from the Wabasha tri...

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Congratulations, high school athletes, on a successful season

At the start of the Rib Lake Village Board meeting last week, village president Bill Schreiner took a moment to praise the Rib Lake girls volleyball team, on their recent Division 5 State championship victory. It was not one of those staged events, like when the Super Bowl winners visit the White House, but rather, a genuine moment of civic pride, in the achievement of the local high school spo...

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Building a Grid To Power Future Demand

In recent years, the U.S. has shifted to using a wider mix of energy sources, located across the country. These resources help make our electric grid stronger, keep power flowing during disruptions, and create new jobs and business opportunities. However, a sharp increase in energy demand is on the horizon. According to the Brattle Group, it is estimated that by 2035, the amount of electricity ...

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Set playoff divisions by community, not school size

This fall’s sports season marked 25 years, of continued failure by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA), to fairly balance the needs of small districts, against the clout of small-enrollment urban private schools. In June 2000, the Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association (WISAA) disbanded, after the WIAA welcomed private schools to compete with public schools, ...

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