Glen Moberg

Reporter, Wausau

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Environment
3:28 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

City Of Adams Rolls Out Red Carpet For Green Energy Company

Credit GEITS
The solar power array that GEITS proposes still needs authorization from the Adams County.

The Adams city council and the Adams-Friendship Area School Board voted to let an Australian company make Adams its American headquarters.

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Criminal Justice
12:01 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

Marathon County Jail Attack Video Shows 'A Battlefield'

File: Marathon County Corrections Officer Julie Christiansen

The newly released video of an attack at the Marathon County jail has provoked a strong reaction from a citizens' panel investigating security at the facility. Panel members say the attack appeared to have been coordinated.

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Criminal Justice
5:00 am
Mon May 13, 2013

New Marathon County Sheriff Pledges To Improve Jail Security

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Newly appointed Marathon County Sheriff Scott Parks (right) show with county administrator Brad Karger.

Marathon County's new sheriff is pledging to improve jail security in the wake of an attack that left a corrections officer critically wounded. 

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Environment
4:30 pm
Wed May 8, 2013

Ice Storm Wreaks Havoc On Migrating Loons

Credit Raptor Education Group
Marge Gibson of the Raptor Education Group wildlife rescue center approaches a stranded loon on Highway H in Langlade County. The bird was knocked out of the sky by an ice storm.

An ice storm late last week caused significant problems for migrating loons, with many of the birds literally falling out of the sky.

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Criminal Justice
5:00 am
Wed May 8, 2013

Wausau Sees Rise In Heroin Abuse

Credit Nadina Wiórkiewicz (CC-BY-SA)

  Law enforcement officials and health care professionals are decrying a growing heroin problem in the greater Wausau area.

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Education
5:02 pm
Fri May 3, 2013

Software Company Protests New Single-Vendor System In Schools

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Skyward President Jim King addresses a rally at company headquarters with state Representatives Katrina Shankland (D-Stevens Point) and Amy Sue Vruwink (D-Milladore).

The Department of Public Instruction has rejected the company Skyward’s protests over a school software contract to an out-of-state company.

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Politics
5:06 pm
Tue April 30, 2013

The Folk Harmonicist From Capitol Hill: Dave Obey To Play With Peter Yarrow

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Legendary folk singer Peter Yarrow and legendary Wisconsin Congressman Dave Obey will perform Thursday in a benefit concert in Wausau.

Former Wisconsin Congressman Dave Obey will appear in his hometown of Wausau Thursday night with legendary folk musician Peter Yarrow.

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Health and Science
11:15 pm
Fri April 26, 2013

Dearth Of Research Makes Mysterious Post-Polio Syndrome Hard To Treat

Credit UW Extension
Jerry Apps, who wrote a book about his experience with polio, began feeling his symptoms return over the past three to four years.

Polio survivors who came down with the crippling disease 60 years ago are seeing their symptoms return in old age.

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Environment
11:17 am
Thu April 25, 2013

City Wants Floating Solar Power Plant To Fight Water Pollution

Credit GEITS
The Australian green energy company GEITS is working with Adams County on a plan to put floating solar power plants on Lake Petenwell.

The city of Adams is supporting an Australian green energy company that wants to build a floating power plant to clean up polluted Lake Petenwell.

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Social issues
4:20 pm
Mon April 22, 2013

Bad River Chippewa Leader Meets New Secretary Of Interior

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Sally Jewell, the new secretary of the interior, met with Bad River Band of Chippewa leader Mike Wiggins last Friday.

The chairman of Wisconsin's Bad River Chippewa band met with the new secretary of the interior in Washington over the weekend.

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