November 30, 2023
In 2022, Janel McCarville played her last game in the Swedish professional women's basketball league. In her later seasons, the WNBA veteran juggled roles as a player and also as ...
May 10, 2022
Close your eyes and imagine the oldest tree in Wisconsin. When I would do this, I used to picture something like a massive red oak with limbs the size of ...
December 30, 2021
Boleslaw Kochanowski spends hours at his drafting table in his office above the blacksmith shop, creating designs for his metal sculptures. A pencil drawing of “To the Point,” a new ...
September 17, 2020
The days are shorter in September and the nights are cooler. Not as many people feel like buying ice cream. “Right now I’m at the stage where, when I run ...
April 14, 2020
Every day after lunch, my son and I go for a walk. It’s one of the pleasant parts of our new routine during this weird, difficult time of staying home. ...
February 5, 2020
In 1911, the Milwaukee-area manufacturer Alonzo Pauling gathered $75,000 in capital and founded the Pewaukee Lake Ice Company with his son, Harry. They bought 18 acres of land and started ...
September 3, 2019
Wisconsin Public Radio lost a dear colleague and friend to cancer over the weekend. Glen Moberg covered central Wisconsin for WPR for 15 years. As a reporter and talk show ...
August 21, 2019
At Stevens Point, the Wisconsin River fans out into a flowage, with branches and channels and swirls and broad, still expanses. On the map, the flowage looks a little like ...
