Green Bay true crime author Lynda Drews will share how a college-educated woman and a servant in the 19th century got caught in the web of a sadistic doctor when she comes to Shawano on Oct. 20.

When we were dairy farming, we bred our cows, keeping the heifer calves to replenish our herd, and selling the bull calves. Once in a while a heifer couldn’t, for one reason or another, get bred. That one would be raised until she could be butchered.

My wife and I celebrated our 27th anniversary Sept. 19. We (she) decided to celebrate our mostly blissful, sometimes tumultuous years together (9,862 days) not by traveling to a warm beach or remote tropical paradise but by sharing her dad’s lakefront cabin (Wausau home) on Lily Lake near Pickerel.

National Taco Day is Oct. 4. Taco pie is a delicious new spin on normal tacos.

UW-Eau Claire

A total of 430 incoming freshmen received scholarships from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for the 2025-26 academic year, with many students receiving multiple awards. Each award varies in amount and criteria.

Local recipients include:

Krakow: McKenna Rohloff, Pulaski High School, Freshman Honors Scholarship

Leadership Shawano County has spent 25 years developing future community leaders, and many of the past participants came together Sept. 18 at the North Star Mohican Casino Resort.