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Black River Falls (BRF) Middle School FCCLA (Family, Career, Community, Leaders of America) students brought awareness for mental health during the BRF High School boys and girls basketball game Friday, Jan. 20.
Pictured are (l-r), Olivia Larkin, Zoe Rukavina, Peyton Taylor, Morgan Kundinger, Grace Tande, Hayden Brown, Lexie Wood, Ruthann Falcon and Lily Sullivan.
Hayden Brown and Zoe Rukavina wanted to bring mental health awareness to the community.
Brown and Rukavina are involved in FCCLA (Family, Careers, Community Leaders of America), and when selecting their project for the club, they decided to work with Jackson County Health and Human Services to...
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The free and accepted Masons of Wisconsin Lodge #279 of Merrillan, presented a Greenport portable fire suppression tool to the Merrillan Fire and Rescue team.
Greenport portable fire suppression tools are small devices that fit in the trunk of squad cars, ambulances or other first responder vehicles, and can dramatically reduce fire and water damage in enclosures like houses, garages, stores or sheds. They are lightweight and easy to deploy. Within 35 seconds, the fire is suppressed, and the temperature inside the enclosure will drop over 1,000 degrees; making it a safer environment to extract trapped firefighters or citizens.
Deputy Nosbisch and Kielyn Rowekamp were excited to teach basic first aid skills to the Lincoln Elementary School’s fifth-grade classes.
Kielyn Rowekamp and Jackson County deputy Kyle Nosbisch presented a basic first aid presentation to the Lincoln elementary fifth-grade classes.
The students were able to learn when they would need to call 911 and basic first aid, including how to treat cuts.
The Black River Falls Memorial...
Six Wisconsin construction companies received Excellence in Construction Awards at the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s annual Contractor-Engineer Conference held this week in Wisconsin Dells.
Top winners include an asphalt paving project in Lincoln County, a concrete paving project in...
Black River Falls Fire Department responded to this snowmobile and rider who fell through the ice on the Black River over the weekend. Crews were finally able to locate the snowmobile.
The Black River Falls (BRF) Fire and Rescue were requested to respond to the Black River snowmobile crossing for a snowmobile and rider that fell through the ice over the weekend. During their initial request, it was told that both snowmobile and rider were missing, but once on scene, crews located...
The Black River Falls School District (BRFSD) Board met for its regular meeting Monday, Jan. 16.
The board heard about bus bids from BRFSD transportation supervisor Kristi Pronschinske.
“As you have seen in your packet, requests for bids for a 72-passenger conventional school bus were...
“There was no pulse and she wasn’t breathing,” said Melrose-Mindoro School art teacher Sandra Paisley.
In 2016, the day started out normal for art teacher Paisley until a student came crashing into her room asking for help. Paisley ran to the gym, where the 11-year-old girl had collapsed when...
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Black River Falls (BRF) Middle School FCCLA (Family, Career, Community, Leaders of America) students Zoe Rukavina and Hayden Brown brought their FCCLA project to life during the BRF High School girls and boys basketball game Friday, Jan. 20, in the fieldhouse at the Lunda Community Center in BRF. Green t-shirts were worn by community members in the girls effort to raise awareness for mental health.
Pictured are, in no specific order, Olivia Larkin, Zoe Rukavina, Peyton Taylor, Morgan Kundinger, Grace Tande, Hayden Brown, Lexie Wood, Ruthann Falcon and Lily Sullivan.
A female body was discovered late Wednesday morning, Jan. 18, around 10 a.m. in rural Monroe County in the Township of La Grange. It was confirmed to be a Ho-Chunk Nation tribal member who has been missing since December the Monroe Sheriff’s Office reported.
Investigators confirmed that the...
Derone Smith, 34, from Chicago, IL, was arrested Jan. 18, shortly after 8:30 in the morning by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for first-offense operating a motor vehicle under the influence, with two children under the age of 16 in the vehicle.
A Wisconsin State trooper stopped a...