Students attending Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Shawano can get help and counseling for far more than just academics.

Resources are available at the campus to help students connect with community food pantries, housing and utility support, transportation help, legal services and more.

There were important themes within the keynotes from last month’s 2025 Seven Generation Inter-Tribal Leadership Summit. Whether intended or not, they collectively reminded me of something rhetoric scholar Kenneth Burke wrote about what is referred to as the “unending conversation.”

I like to think I’m not resistant to change, because it can make life better. However, this past year may well do me in. As if what’s happening (or not happening) on the political side isn’t distressing enough, along comes artificial intelligence.

Add a bit of life to your holiday gatherings with the help of succulents. You and your guests will enjoy the easy-care beauty of succulents. Their subtle colors and dramatic form make them great gifts and decorations now and throughout the year.

Small-scale succulents provide a multitude of opportunities for incorporating them into your holiday celebrations. Just select containers that complement, but don’t overpower their charm.

As the holiday season approaches, AbbyBank and other financial institutions are coming together to warn their communities of two fast-growing fraud schemes — pig butchering scams and charity scams.

Northcentral Technical College will partner with Judicare Legal Aid to host a free estate planning workshop.

The workshop will be held from 1-5 p.m. Nov. 19 in Room E101 at NTC’s Wausau campus. The event is free.