A Wisconsin organization is working to connect woodworkers and builders with diseased trees that typically end up in landfills after being cut down..
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Read More »A Wisconsin organization is working to connect woodworkers and builders with diseased trees that typically end up in landfills after being cut down..
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Read More »The air is filled with the smell of fresh-cut wood, and workshop shelves are stocked with pegs, wheels, axles and other tiny toy parts.
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Read More »No word on charges in Milwaukee slayings, fire MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police on Tuesday were still trying to sort out a case involving five suspects and their possible involvement in the homicides of two women, two children and a fire ...
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Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An Assembly ethics committee has set a public hearing to consider possible punishment for a troubled lawmaker. Rep. Jeff Wood, a Chippewa Falls independent, has been arrested three times over the last 13 months for driving ...
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Read More »PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — A newspaper reports a state legislator has reached a plea deal in one of his three driving-under-the-influence cases. The Portage Daily Register reports Rep. Jeff Wood will plead in Columbia County to third-offense operating under the ...
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Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state lawmaker facing driving-under-the-influence charges has returned to Madison to vote on, of all things, a drunken driving bill. Rep. Jeff Wood has been arrested three times in the last year for driving under the ...
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Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has entered not guilty pleas for a state lawmaker in his latest driving under the influence case. Rep. Jeff Wood had an initial appearance in Monroe County on Tuesday morning. District Attorney Dan Cary ...
Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A legislative committee has met to consider whether to strip a troubled state lawmaker of his job. The Assembly Special Committee on Ethics and Standards of Conduct must recommend whether the full body should kick Rep. ...
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Read More »Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com A renewed interest in burning wood to produce electricity is prompting papermaker concerns the increased demand could lead to higher pulp prices or market shortages. The more biomass plants that are built to satisfy the state’s renewable-energy ...
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Read More »Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Wisconsin’s pursuit of biomass as a renewable energy is doing little to fire up work in the construction industry. “It’s frustrating,” said Thomas Fisher, president and business manager of the De Forest-based Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council. “We ...
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