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World Champion Curler Gives Back By Coaching U.S. Paralympic Curling Team

Curling is more than just a game involving ice, rocks and brooms to U.S. Paralympic curling coach Steve Brown. Instead, it represents a lifetime of achievement and learning. Brown’s love of curling began at a young age while growing up twenty miles north of La Crosse in Galesville.

The Beauty Of September In Wisconsin

Fall is a blissful time in Wisconsin. Catherine Jagoe celebrates the best of the season before our retreat into winter. On my early morning walk, I see streams of people on bikes and in cars, rushing places with their backpacks and brief-cases: all that industry and purpose, just when the avian and vegetable world is finally done with its own urgency and lolling around, sluggish in the sultry heat, at a lull, a pendulum pausing before it gathers momentum.

The Mayberry Guru Brings Barney Fife To Life

Growing up in Dorchester, Wisconsin, Ken Anderson remembers watching “The Andy Griffith Show” during its first season in 1960. “I was a freshman in high school. I started watching it a little bit and then my dad died in 1961,” Anderson said, “I got really interested in it because Andy Griffith was such a father figure on that show.”

Mother, Business Owner And … Firefighter

Between running her own business in Middleton and raising two children, it may seem surprising that Deneen Carmichael finds time to commit to her other obligation, volunteer firefighting. After attending physical fitness training sessions at Middleton fire’s station, Carmichael became curious about the volunteer firefighters she met and how they found the courage to face dangerous situations.

DNR Educator Highlights Crane Migration At Sandhill Wildlife Area

In the backwoods of central Wisconsin, Britt Searles is in her environment and has an eagle eye for spotting wildlife under the forest canopy. Searles is a teacher by training and was working at a school with a heavy environmental focus when a move brought her to the Sandhill Wildlife Area. 

Boxing Club Invites Youth to “Sweat in Our Gym” Rather Than “Bleed in the Streets”

Can you help reduce urban violence by teaching young people how to fight?  Frank Porter, head of Milwaukee’s Ace Boxing Club, thinks so. “If they have negative energy that they often find in the streets, they come in here and work it out,” says Porter.