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Jonah Beleckis

Jonah Beleckis

Jonah Beleckis is a digital content producer for Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s from Oak Park, Illinois and spent five years as a newspaper reporter in Janesville, Wisconsin. He’s a big fan of (and advocate for) Uncrustables, soccer and “The Lion King.”

Latest Contributed Stories

Nastya Latanska, right, dances with a partner Thursday, March 6, 2025, at Fred Astaire Dance Studios in Madison, Wis. Angela Major/WPR

March 20, 2025

With war raging, ballroom dance connects Ukrainians in Wisconsin to their home

Ballroom dance offers something more for the Ukrainian instructors at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Madison, Wisconsin. They feel a bond to the home they left and worry they ...
Although he left his job as a teacher and eventually became a chef, Carson Gulley still spent his time teaching the culinary techniques he learned to others. (Photo courtesy of UW-Madison Archives)

November 3, 2022

Carson Gulley was more than the maker of fudge bottom pie at UW-Madison

Carson Gulley was a Black culinary, radio and TV pioneer in the mid-1900s. Now, his legacy lives on at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after it named a dining venue after ...
Mist lingers on the side of Grandad Bluff after a rainstorm Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in La Crosse, Wis. (Angela Major/WPR)

October 5, 2022

Where does the ‘Driftless Area’ get its name? The history, boundaries of the southwest Wisconsin region

As people enter the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin, they're transported from a relatively flat region to a sudden maze of rolling hills. Roads wind up the sides of bluffs ...
 
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