Friesland News

The 'Stars Over Wisconsin' shined brightly Wednesday night in Madison as four FFA members where recognized with the highest awards a student can win at the state-level at the 80th annual Wisconsin FFA Convention.

The swine flu has spread to extreme northeast Columbia County, as the Cambria-Friesland School District on Monday became the third district in the county to have at least one student with a laboratory-confirmed case of the viral illness.

A flag with four blue stars hangs on a wall in the home of Scott and Patty Rataczak.

On May 5, I lost my wallet near downtown Beaver Dam. Within 45 minutes I had a phone call from the Beaver Dam police station that my wallet had been returned.

A barn on the farm of Stan and Faye DeBoer was destroyed by a fire Saturday afternoon.

About eight months ago, Melissa Smedema got wind of We Energy's plans to set up a 90-turbine wind farm in the Columbia County towns of Scott and Randolph.

School libraries throughout the state are sharing $35.3 million in payments made from the Common School Fund.

For whatever reason, readers tell me they enjoy the church bulletins/announcements "glitches" we mention.

A spaghetti supper will be held on Friday and Saturday before the Cambria-Friesland school play, "Bull in a China Shop." The supper runs from 5 until 6:30 p.m. at Cambria-Friesland High School to benefit the Cambria Community Day trip to Miller Park in June.

Howard Melton was away from home at a summer camp on June 22, 1941. Noises roused the camp early in the morning.

Plans for community trip to Miller Park in June had a curve ball thrown at them, but the groups planning the event are moving forward.

The Cambria-Friesland National Honor Society will sponsor a blood drive, hosted by the American Red Cross, on March 23.

Jennifer Bresser and Michael Britt were united in marriage on May 3, 2008, at the Evergreen Lutheran Church in Evergreen, Colo.

The Cambria-Friesland School Board hired a financial consultant on the recommendation of the board's ad hoc finance committee.

Milwaukee-based We Energies has narrowed down possible locations for a substation that would receive energy from up to 90 wind turbines in Columbia County's towns of Scott and Randolph, then send the energy ...

The Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association inducted Victor Anthony and Jeffrey Wyman into its Hall of Fame.

A 9-year-old Cambria girl who died over the weekend after her father's truck went through the ice on Lake Winnebago, was remembered as a kind and artistic student.

In Bernice Vogt's Chilton apartment, pictures of her son Danial Kleinhans and her granddaughter Savannah, come with a new emotion.

When Barbara Schneider's 44-year-old 'baby brother,' her 9-year-old niece and another girl finished visiting her ice shanty Saturday on Lake Winnebago, they drove away to visit another shanty, but did not ...

The Cambria-Friesland School District has new technology tools, and teachers are working hard to update the curriculum and incorporate the use of those tools in classrooms.