FRIDAY, APRIL 3

OCONTO: Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Farnsworth Public Library, 715 Main St. Story and crafts for preschool children. A caregiver must stay with the child.

At the end of December, I wrote a column about how we sportsmen should consider passing on our hunting, fishing and trapping heritage to the next generation.

Wisconsin has about 100,000 fewer deer hunters today than it had in 2000, during the peak of the state’s harvest. Young people are busy with school sports, video games, social media and dating, and they are just not taking up hunting or fishing like they once did.

As we approach Easter, I truly feel it is the most important day of the year. Our Father God in His great agape love and unmerited grace and mercy, paved a way for us to escape our sinful nature and sure death. He set a plan in place for His Son to pay a penalty we deserved. Jesus did not warrant it but took it upon Himself to pay.

UW-Stout

The following students graduated Dec. 20, 2025, from University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie.

Bonduel: Danielle Evans, master of science, career and technical education.

Eland: Emma Behreandt, bachelor of science, psychology.

UW-Whitewater

Bob Bucher had watched enough people tapping their maple trees and bottling syrup that one year he decided to do it himself.

“I saw a few people doing it and thought it would be interesting,” the Town of Richmond man said in mid-March. “Like they say, once you start it, you’re hooked.”

He and his wife, Cindy, have been making maple syrup the past seven years. Last month, they tapped 54 trees.