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Not your typical 9-to-5: Highlighting the hard work of farmers for Dairy Month

Not your typical 9-to-5: Highlighting the hard work of farmers for Dairy Month Not your typical 9-to-5: Highlighting the hard work of farmers for Dairy Month
June marks Dairy Month, when we celebrate our dairying heritage and the way of life that remains important to many families in central Wisconsin. Dairy farming is not an easy profession, and although ...
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Economic health starts on the farm

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WisGOP: Call for unity more about getting behind Tiffany, not ousting Schimming

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Don’t rush through the moments that matter

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Congratulations to the Class of 2026

Each May, about 4 million young people graduate from high schools across the country. The ceremonies are similar. Family, friends, and relatives gather on football fields or in gymnasiums. Music plays and young people in robes solemnly process. Speeches are given. Tears are shed. There is polite laughter as the school official delivers the same joke for the 23rd year in a row. Names are called....

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A hidden driver of small businesses’ soaring health costs

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