Last week in this space we reported on the surprising victory of a college student in a county-board election. Eric Folkman, a junior at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, won election as a ...

Before we turn the calendar, I want to highlight a few things we explored together in 2025, and reveal my new word for 2026.

That’s what the first-graders in Sue Allen’s class at Townsend Elementary School in Vandercook Lake thought of her activity designed to help them count by ones, tens and hundreds last week. Maybe ...