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WEBThe City of Rhinelander will be planting hundreds of more trees in the next few years. Trees are important for cities to help improve air quality, lower cooling costs for homes, and improve overall quality of life.The City of Rhinelander has lost more trees than it’s planted over the years, especially in lower-income areas.
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WEBOrdinances related to wake boats appear in several Northwoods communities. WAOW Television Jimmy Sadowski. , September 20, 2024. Several places around Northern Central Wisconsin have adopted wake boat ordinances including Newbold, Presque Isle and Lake Tomahawk. They do not ban wake boats, but ballast tanks on them.
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When Telephones Arrived in the Northwoods - WXPR
WEBApr 14, 2021 — The Wisconsin Telephone Company was founded in Milwaukee in 1882, and telephone service quickly extended across the southern part of the state but not to the largely unsettled Northwoods. Telegraph service, which was the more proven technology, arrived as soon as towns and lumber camps were …
How Do Turtles Survive a Frozen Winter? - WXPR
WEBMar 15, 2021 — Turtles can handle this somewhat, although it raises the acid level of their blood. For some turtles, especially painted turtles, they can mitigate this too, using the calcium in their shells to balance their blood acidity. But if the winter is so cold that it freezes to the bottom, the turtles will die; they cannot survive freezing solid like ...
Foxfire And Bioluminescent Fungi - WXPR
WEBAug 31, 2020 — Interestingly, the cause of foxfire was apparently discovered in 1823 because wooden support beams inside a mine seemed to glow in the dark, but upon further examination it was determined that fungus growing on the wood that was glowing. Bioluminescent fungi seem to emit a glow in darkness …
How the Town of St. Germain Got Its Name - WXPR
WEBAug 15, 2018 — Big St. Germain Lake is named for the family, and when civic leaders of the nearby town of Farmington were looking for ways to attract tourist dollars, they changed the name of their town first to Lakewood, and then in 1930 to the more romantic sounding St. Germain. This story was written by Gary Entz and produced for radio by Mackenzie Martin.
Voting in Wisconsin’s Primary Election - WXPR
WEBJul 21, 2022 — The Wisconsin Primary election is less than three weeks away. Wisconsin has open primaries. You don’t have to be registered to a party to vote in its primary. This means you can choose to vote in either the Democrat, Republican, or any other party’s but only in one of them. For example, you can’t vote in Democrat Senate Primary and also ...
Wake surf legislation introduced in Wisconsin brings boat debate …
WEBNov 6, 2023 — Wisconsin Legislation. While the impact of the wake surf boats is debated, state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would regulate it. Sen. Mary Felzkowski (R-Irma) and Rep. Rob Swearingen (R-Rhinelander) have brought forth a bill that would amend state law to define wake surfing and wakeboarding.
The Michigan-Wisconsin Border Dispute Through History - WXPR
WEBOct 7, 2020 — This brought the Michigan legislature’s attention to the border, where they subsequently claimed a wedge of land from Hurley to Lake Brule consisting of 235,000 acres with an additional 129 islands in the Menominee River. In 1926 the two states sued each other in the U.S. Supreme Court over ownership of this land.