Cornell News

After a winter of work and a spotty spring that hampered a facelift on the storefront, Gordy's County Market opened on schedule this Wednesday at 6 a.m. The new 61,000-square foot store is at 2601 S. Main St.

I worked in a Downtown office building for many years. Times would come - I never kept track of the time of year - when we would find beautiful little birds dead on the sidewalk every day for a few weeks.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology on Common Redpolls: "These small finches of the arctic tundra and boreal forest migrate erratically, and they occasionally show up in large numbers as far south as the central U.S." Redpolls have graced our Janesville, WI bird feeders all winter and some are still with us in April.

The Chippewa County Sheriff's Office is on the scene of a residential structure fire in the Town of Lake Holcombe.

Members of several University of Wisconsin student organizations protesting UW's partnership with Palermo's Pizza rallied on Bascom Hill Thursday to urge the administration to sever ties with the company.